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Here's the full story of this unbearably cute crime-fighting duo
It started as just another day on the police force. In early June 2011, Constable Suzanne Bourque received a call about a bear cub being fed by motorists at a Canadian rest stop. When she arrived and...
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LGBTQ reading of 'Frozen' prompts fiery debate on Tumblr
Is the most successful Disney film in history the latest entry into Hollywood’s Celluloid Closet? The Frozenfandom on Tumblr has exploded in debate after one fan presented a queer reading of the main...
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Time Warner sics legal team on this teen's Tumblr
Time Warner is apparently so fierce about protecting its assets, it has sent legal notice to an 18-year-old Panera Bread employee who uses the domain CNNBreakingOfficial.com as a jump-off to his...
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These tiny recreations of 'Hannibal' meals look good enough to eat
For a show that many viewers originally assumed was a typical NBC crime drama, Hannibalhas received an impressive amount of critical acclaim—particularly for its set design and art direction. Written...
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IRL Club: Where the Internet gathers to mock itself
I didn’t much know what to expect from the second installment of IRL Club, an Internet symposium series spearheaded by New Inquiry editor and former Gawker writer Adrian Chen, but neither did anyone...
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Bronies attack one of their own after a racy 'My Little Pony' blog disappears
Tumblr, 4chan, and the bronies—fans of the animated series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic—are facing off over a deleted pony blog and a flood of harassment directed toward a 17-year-old girl who...
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Tumblr is on a mission to make 15 new 'Jaws' movies in a year
Tumblr user ctrayn has a vision, and also an eerie addiction to sequels.Back to the Future Part II famously envisioned life in 2015 as a year in which everyone had flying cars and skateboards that...
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How a new social network could succeed where Reddit and Facebook fail
In late 2003, several months before Mark Zuckerberg captured the attention of Harvard University—and later the world—with Facebook, another college student was working on his own online social...
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A tragic teen suicide can't be blamed on Tumblr
In October 2012, the tragic death of British schoolgirl Tallulah Wilson became the latest in a string of social media-related suicides. Unable to find support among her real-world peer group, Wilson...
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What Tumblr users should know about the new terms of service
Tumblr caused an accidental mass panic over the weekend when it unveiled new Terms of Service. Thanks to the complicated dynamics of reblogging third-party content, fear that the site was exercising...
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Lay's is looking for a new flavor, and the Internet has some amazing ideas
It’s a classic promotional gambit: let the consumer pitch a product. Lay’s, a ubiquitous brand of potato chips, is crowdsourcing ideas for a new taste sensation in their #DoUsAFlavor campaign, with a...
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'Selfie' the sitcom is happening, and it's all your fault
Television studios have long puzzled over how best to co-opt the popularity of an Internet that otherwise robs them of passive, dead-eyed attention. For instance, do you recall that week in 2012 when...
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The NSA could not care less about your Tumblr blog
The U.S. government is confident that terrorists do not create single-serving blogs, participate in fandom, or reblog photos of pretty nature landscapes, with or without hipster captions.Tumblr...
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Dimly Lit Meals for One: The most depressing food on the Internet
For better or worse, you can tell a lot about someone by their food photos. While we’ve become accustomed to tastefully lit, well-composed brunch photos filling our Instagram and Facebook feeds,...
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Tumblr explains why everything you know about mermaids is wrong
Mermaids are one of the creatures that the fantasy world can’t get enough of. They’re right up there with dragons and unicorns when it comes to mythical creatures that nerdy kids never really grow out...
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Is a medieval video game historically accurate without people of color?
MedievalPOC occupies an unusual space in the Tumblr blogosphere, combining an anti-racist social justice message with citation-filled historical research. You’d think this would be harmless enough, but...
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Twitch sucks up more peak traffic than Hulu and Facebook
Following Twitch’s record-breaking 2013, the San Francisco video game streaming company can now count itself among the top tier of American tech companies.Twitch produces more peak traffic than Hulu,...
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This artist poses action figures in some shockingly adult situations
They may seem like innocent playthings, but action figures can lead lives of drug use, mass murder, and other types of general debauchery. At least skvoe's collection of action figures do. Since June...
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A fandom guide to Dylan O'Brien, the most popular actor you've never heard of
Prior to the launch of MTV’s Teen Wolf in 2011, Dylan O’Brien was famous for, well... nothing. During high school, he posted a few funny YouTube videos where he did things like lip synch to Spice...
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Say it ain't 'Psych'! USA series set to end March 26
It’s no Psych-out: the show that taught you how to tell when people are lying and confirmed that you will never be as well-dressed as Dulé Hill is officially ending in March.GIF via...
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