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

The M&Ms are different now

By Melinda Fakuade

Is confidence a cult? These sociologists think so.

By Rebecca Jennings

The misery of the Hype House

By Rebecca Jennings

Diet messaging is everywhere right now. Here’s how to tune it out.

By Casey Gueren

Is Jeremy Strong the bad art friend?

By Aja Romano

Is a new kind of religion forming on the internet?

By Rebecca Jennings

Astroworld and the trickiness of tragedy blame games

By Melinda Fakuade

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The rise of the influencer sex worker

Platforms like OnlyFans let people with big followings online earn money. What about the sex workers who were there first?

By Rebecca Jennings

The chaotic, irreplaceable Wendy Williams

By Melinda Fakuade

Supply chain havoc is getting worse — just in time for holiday shopping

By Rebecca Heilweil

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How mental health became a social media minefield

Social media is now basically WebMD for mental health.

By Rebecca Jennings

Gabby Petito’s disappearance, and why it was absolutely everywhere, explained

By Aja Romano

Nicki Minaj isn’t anti-vax, exactly. That’s why her vaccine resistance is so concerning.

By Aja Romano

John Mulaney was performing a role all along

By Aja Romano

One Good Thing: This Chinese dance show is the only thing I care about

By Aja Romano

Why Nicolas Cage endures

By Alissa Wilkinson and Aja Romano

The great American cool

By Safy-Hallan Farah

Venmo’s new fees are frustrating people with side hustles

By Rebecca Heilweil

Got the same name as a serial killer? Google might think you’re the same person.

By Rebecca Heilweil

The soothing, slightly sinister world of productivity hacks

By Beatrice Forman

Sotheby’s is selling a piece of web history, signed by its creator

By Rebecca Heilweil

The radical help of the anti-advice column

By Miles Klee

Why are we so worried about Satan?

By Sean Illing

BTS, the band that changed K-pop, explained

By Aja Romano

The British media narrative of Prince Philip’s death is about Meghan Markle

By Aja Romano

Lil Nas X’s evil gay Satanic agenda, explained

By Aja Romano

Why everything is a Milkshake Duck

By Aja Romano

A guy (maybe) found shrimp in his cereal. Then it got dark.

By Rebecca Jennings

Justice League’s Snyder Cut saga reminds us which fans’ voices get heard

By Aja Romano

Your tweet goes viral. Here come the companies asking you to sell their crap.

By Rebecca Jennings

The delicate relationship between grief and fanfiction, explained by a psychologist

By Aja Romano

The internet’s most beloved fanfiction site is undergoing a reckoning

By Aja Romano

Why the best true crime podcasts have to be political

By Aja Romano

The “Gorilla Glue Girl” never wanted her nickname

By Melinda Fakuade

What happened when a beloved mom influencer donated to Trump

By Rebecca Jennings

Kellyanne and Claudia Conway’s very complicated, very public relationship, explained

By Rebecca Jennings

Kicking people off social media isn’t about free speech

By Aja Romano

Bernie Sanders inauguration memes are liberal comfort food

By Aja Romano

Baked Alaska’s clout-chasing spiral into white supremacy is an internet morality tale

By Aja Romano

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The paradox of online “body positivity”

Is this the beginning of a mainstream fat acceptance movement? Or will it be buried by the algorithms?

By Rebecca Jennings

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