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Internet Culture

Vox's coverage of the latest memes, social media controversies, YouTube drama, and more.

The racist backlash to The Little Mermaid and Lord of The Rings is exhausting and extremely predictable

By Aja Romano September 17

The sex worker teaching TikTok about legal brothels

By Rebecca Jennings September 7

So your kid wants to be an influencer

By Rebecca Jennings August 31

“Scary easy. Sketchy as hell.”: How startups are pushing Adderall on TikTok

By Sara Morrison August 29

You can ignore Andrew Tate

By Rebecca Jennings August 24

Games of Thrones season 8

This Targaryen family tree explains Jon Snow’s parentage — and sets up House of the Dragon

By Aja Romano August 19

The “Dark Brandon” meme — and why it’s so confusing — explained

By Aja Romano August 11

Tacky is back!

By Rebecca Jennings July 13

The nontoxic social media app that tells you your toxic traits

By Rebecca Jennings June 29

Our submissions to the queer canon

By Aja Romano, Alissa Wilkinson, and 3 more June 27

How Catholicism became a meme

By Rebecca Jennings June 15

What the deepfake controversy about this Chinese actor says about conspiratorial thinking

By Aja Romano June 6

How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other

By Rebecca Jennings May 24

Why the Depp-Heard trial is so much worse than you realize

By Aja Romano May 20

Twitter trolling with Chapo Trap House’s Felix Biederman

By Rebecca Jennings May 17

Are we ever authentically ourselves on the internet?

By Terry Nguyen May 17

What is a trend anymore?

By Terry Nguyen May 11

The YouTubers are not okay

By Rebecca Jennings May 10

Just admit that you loooove Twitter

By Rebecca Jennings May 3

A day in the life of a professional Twitter flirt

By Rebecca Jennings April 26

The hottest trend on TikTok? In-depth analysis.

By Terry Nguyen April 20

Ignoring emails with Twitter’s funniest comedian

By Rebecca Jennings April 19

The growing, lightly controversial industry teaching kids crypto

By Rebecca Jennings April 12

Procrasti-shopping with NPR’s youngest podcast host

By Rebecca Jennings April 5

The story of the internet, as told by the movies

By Alissa Wilkinson April 5

Nobody wants more crappy videos on Instagram. Too bad.

By Rebecca Jennings March 29

12 hours online and zero regrets: A day with the internet’s funniest meme curator

By Rebecca Jennings March 22

Pixar’s Turning Red is an unlikely culture war battleground

By Aja Romano March 17

Where teen influencers go to become actors

By Rebecca Jennings March 15

The video essay boom

By Terry Nguyen March 9

War TikTok is a mess

By Rebecca Jennings March 1

How Kibbe body types became an internet obsession

By Terry Nguyen February 28

Reckoning with the war meme in wartime

By Aja Romano February 25

How do you solve a problem like Joe Rogan?

By Aja Romano February 23

The chaotic, irreplaceable Wendy Williams

By Melinda Fakuade February 22

I’m a creator. You’re a creator. We’re all creators!

By Rebecca Jennings February 22

Crypto, for cool girls

By Rebecca Jennings February 15

The internet turned “money” into a hobby

By Rebecca Jennings February 8

Fashion is just TikTok now

By Rebecca Jennings February 1

Why Bachelor stars are suddenly shilling for crypto

By Emily Stewart January 31