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  1. fauci hive
    Has Your Mom Sent You This Yet?A TikTok video at the intersection of salient boomer interests.
    By Bridget Read
  2. tiktok
    Teens Are Disguising As Mask-Wearing Grandmas to Buy Booze(Or so they claim on TikTok.)
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  3. extremely online
    Everything Is Cake NowA viral video showing people cutting into household items to reveal they are in fact cake has many people questioning their grip on reality.
    By Hannah Gold
  4. tiktok
    The Trump Administration Is Considering Banning TikTokThe U.S. opened a national-security investigation into the app last year.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  5. extremely online
    YouTube and Reddit Put Their Foot Down, Ban Far-Right ContentYouTube took down six accounts, while Reddit banned over 2,000 subreddits.
    By Justin Curto
  6. fitness
    Jane Fonda Is Bringing Back Her ’80s Workouts to TikTokGet your leotards ready.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  7. crime
    ‘Zoombombing’ Is a Horrifying New TrendPeople are hijacking online college classes, AA meetings, and church services.
    By Bridget Read
  8. habits
    Welcome Back to the Appointment InternetSocial distancing has given rise to an older — and better — way of being online.
    By Brian Feldman
  9. skin deep
    Handwashing Tutorials Are What We Watch NowA new kind of celebrity skin-care routine.
    By Erica Smith
  10. coronavirus
    Don’t Spread Coronavirus LiesWash your hands and check your facts.
    By Bridget Read
  11. called out
    Please Log Off, the Pope BegsFor the love of God, literally.
    By Bridget Read
  12. doin it for the gram
    Why Are Celebrities Making These Weird Faces on Instagram?I can’t look away.
    By Erica Smith
  13. podcasts
    The Podcast That Best Captured the Chaos of the Internet in 2019Whether it’s impersonating Caitlyn Jenner or Gourmet Makes, Nymphowars is never boring.
    By Riley Leight
  14. extremely online
    How Baby Yoda Took Over the Internet[Sips broth.]
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  15. who were the 2010s?
    BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on Making the World a MemeTalking the dress, the dossier, and the next pivot to video with the CEO of the company that transformed digital media over the last decade.
    By Max Read
  16. the internet
    The Best Cartoons of the Early InternetLooking back on some early internet animated classics, from Homestar Runner to Salad Fingers.
    By Ramsey Ess
  17. culture
    Dancing on My OwnWhen teens bring trauma to TikTok.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  18. the internet
    Entire Internet Horrified by Alcoholic Tide PodsScotch belongs in glasses, not pouches.
    By Nikita Richardson
  19. instagram
    Instagram Will No Longer Promote Diet Products to MinorsIf you’re under 18, you’ll stop seeing ads for detox tea and other appetite suppressants.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  20. influencers
    Enterprising Florida Woman Makes $100,000 a Year Off of Tongue PicsThis influencer built a lucrative brand around her uncommonly long tongue.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  21. broken brain
    Put Me in the Fish TubeShoot me over the dam of this life.
    By Bridget Read
  22. the cut on tuesdays
    The Nightmare Started With an Email From Her ExThree stories of women coping with online harassment, on this week’s Cut podcast.
    By the Cut
  23. keanu
    Keanu Reeves Remains the Best Internet BoyfriendWhile filming the new “Bill & Ted” movie, Reeves saw a yard sign that referenced his “You’re breathtaking” meme and left a note on it.
    By Marie Lodi
  24. science of us
    I Reluctantly Love This Website About How to Live and BeA guide I didn’t realize I badly wanted.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  25. the internet
    Hasan Minhaj Wants to Mail You a Netflix DVDIf your internet provider sucks, there is a way out!
    By Bethy Squires
  26. keanu
    Keanu Reeves Thinks Your Undying Ardor for Him Is ‘Wacky’(And also “positively great.”)
    By Hannah Gold
  27. the internet
    Egg Boy Gives His First Post-Egging Interview“This egg has united people.”
    By Amanda Arnold
  28. the internet
    Why Netflix’s One Day at a Time Cancellation Feels Like a BetrayalWhen a multi-billion-dollar media company tweets like your online friend, its business decisions are bound to feel personal.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  29. the cut opinion pages
    Break Your PhoneIt’s the only way to be acceptably disconnected.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  30. science of us
    Writing a Practice Email Feels Like Looking Into a MirrorI also read stressful emails on multiple devices. Am I nuts? It’s clarifying, anyway.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  31. the internet
    In Praise of the Instagram Egg, Social Media’s Unlikeliest OptimistIt could have advertised something stupid, but its creators opted for the high road.
    By Nikita Richardson
  32. fyre festival
    A GoFundMe for the Fyre Fest Caterers Has Raised Over $160,000Time to set right what scammers have wrought.
    By Bethy Squires
  33. the internet
    #WhiteHouseDinners Is About to Become Your New Favorite Twitter HashtagIt’s a place to process the fast-food feast.
    By Chris Crowley
  34. yolks
    Kylie Jenner Versus an Egg Is the Celebrity Feud We DeserveWe did this to ourselves.
    By Chris Crowley
  35. science of us
    How Much Junk Am I Consuming Online Every Day?What is “digital nutrition” and is mine enviable?
    By Edith Zimmerman
  36. sugar sugar sugar
    Costco Now Sells 7-Pound Tubs of Nutella2019 is already good.
    By Chris Crowley
  37. the internet
    Scarlett Johansson Ruminates on All the Deepfake Porn Made From Her Image“I think it’s a useless pursuit, legally, mostly because the internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  38. strong dumb take
    Shut Down the Internet for the Rest of the YearA modest proposal.
    By Gabriella Paiella
  39. the internet
    Grimes’s Complicated Relationship With the InternetWhy do we care so much about what Grimes does?
    By Larry Fitzmaurice
  40. the cut opinion pages
    Apps Can Take a HikeIt’s been long enough — they’re just not working out.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  41. the internet
    White Supremacists Are Tricking Celebrities Into Recording Anti-Semitic VideosFormer Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre is one of a handful of celebrities whom white supremacists have targeted on the Cameo app.
    By Anna Silman
  42. close reads
    The Good Place Isn’t About Heaven and Hell, It’s About the InternetThis sitcom proves that TV can still bring people together in the streaming age.
    By Lara Zarum
  43. kanye west
    Kanye West’s Relationship to the Internet and Also Twitter Is Not GreatHe sees the web as a platform devoid of the messy particulars of real life.
    By Jeff Ihaza
  44. media
    Apropos of Nothing, Sarah Jeong’s Book About Harassment Is Getting ReissuedOne month after right-wingers threw a disingenuous tantrum over Jeong’s old tweets.
    By Amanda Arnold
  45. the internet
    Did Amazon Alexa Subtweet Ariana Grande’s Instagram Troll?May this be a lesson to all to never mess with Grande.
    By Amanda Arnold
  46. investigations
    When Did ‘TERF Bangs’ Become a Thing?A cultural history of beauty’s most puzzling term.
    By Amanda Arnold
  47. select all
    The Internet Is Lying to YouThe modern practice of redirecting links runs counter to the original vision of the internet.
    By Vijith Assar
  48. songs of the week
    5 Best New Songs of the Week: The 1975, A$AP Rocky & Tyler the Creator, AnittaThe 1975’s Matty Healy once again proves why he’s one of the last of a dying breed of rock star.
    By Vulture Editors
  49. music review
    The Feel Good Mutant Soul of Dirty Projectors’ Lamp Lit ProseIt’s all upbeat ruminations on affection and excitement, where the last album fixated almost exhaustingly on rot.
    By Craig Jenkins
  50. songs of the week
    7 Best New Songs of the Week: The 1975, Kanye, The Internet, Lykke Li, GorillazIs one of Kanye’s new songs secretly a fun. cover?
    By Vulture Editors
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