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Eminem’s New Album Prompted Gen X to Declare a TikTok ‘War’ on Gen Z
In the past week, a somewhat one-sided argument has taken over TikTok. Gen X, it seems, is “declaring war” on…
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'Deadpool & Wolverine' Scales New Heights of Cinematic Self-Awareness
On February 11, 2024, over 123 million viewers tuned in to Super Bowl LVIII. The team at New Rockstars, a…
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Fortnite Has a Political Violence Problem
In the hours after former US president Donald Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, a new Fortnite game appeared: Donald…
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The Real Reason Will Smith Broke Twitch’s Biggest Streaming Record
Every summer, the Spanish Twitch streamer Ibai Llanos hosts a livestreamed boxing tournament called La Velada del Año (The Evening…
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Everyone Is Trying to Make This TikTok Go Viral—and It Never Will
The most-liked video in TikTok history shows a dark-haired woman making funny faces to her front-facing camera as she lip-syncs…
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His Galaxy Wolf Art Kept Getting Ripped Off. So He Sued—and Bought a Home
It took Berlin artist Jonas Jödicke only a few hours to create the artwork that would change his life. He…
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The New ‘Ethical’ AI Music Generator Can’t Write a Halfway Decent Song
Admittedly, our testing artists did push Jen beyond the boundaries of what a “normal” person might ask in a query,…
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AI Is Rewriting Meme History
Pretty much every online lurker knows the image: A man gawks at a passing woman making the kind of “How…
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The Genius Behind @OKWildlifeDept's Most Viral Tweets Is Signing Off
Sarah Southerland calls herself a “Covid baby.” After graduating from the University of Central Oklahoma, she started working for the…
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