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Metaphor meme explodes on Tumblr over 'The Fault in Our Stars' clip
Dear Tumblr: No more metaphors, OK? OK. Fans have been waiting impatiently for the new film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars, the acclaimed Young Adult novel that helped catapult John Green from...
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'Frozen' fandom celebrates Anna, its other heroine
This week marks the six-month anniversary of the release date of Frozen, the wintery Disney juggernaut that shattered the mighty box office record held by The Lion King and proved so popular it has...
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Your guide to the outrage over Laverne Cox's Time 100 snub
Ordinarily, a list of influential favorites that includes the likes of John Green and Benedict Cumberbatch would have the Internet ready to throw a party. Instead, the reaction to the Time magazine's...
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The woman who drew Tinder creeps naked had her Instagram account shut down
Earlier this week, we told you about Anna Gensler, the 23-year-artist who started creating nude drawings of the men who sent her creepy messages on Tinder. She was doing this on an Instagram account...
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The Internet is having a blast with Mariah Carey's wacky album title
Firstly, if you haven’t heard the title of Mariah Carey’s 14th studio album, catch yourself up: Practically any aspect of a phrase like Me. I Am Mariah … The Elusive Chanteuse would have been weird...
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The online push for greater diversity in books and comics
Two different corners of geekdom are getting a major face lift this week, thanks to the members of fandom who are fed up with the ongoing sexism and lack of representation in their fandom communities....
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Tumblr Fitspo reactivated my eating disorder
BY SHEENA LYONNAIS I started my own Fitblr account, and soon I was just like the rest: re-blogging pictures of skinny girls with their running shoes on and their bones sticking out. I erased the items...
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If you thought the Met Gala was gorgeous, check out this Tumblr fan art
Monday night's annual Met Gala was the toast of the Internet, but it also demonstrated how the Web makes red carpet events into increasingly public affairs. Every step celebrities take seems to be...
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PBS imagines a future for fandom that's already a reality
It's no secret that lately PBS Digital has had its eye on fandom and its many possibilities. Earlier this week, the YouTube arm of the beloved public television network announced a webseries...
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No, your Facebook friend's house isn't on fire
Quick heads up—if you start getting Facebook messages like the one below, your friend’s account has been hacked as part of a doggedly persistent phishing scam. One of my Facebook friends got hacked...
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'Game of Thrones' and 'Star Wars' have way more in common than you think
In the pantheon of beloved geek cultural properties, you might think that Star Wars and Game of Thrones exist at opposite ends of the wide spectrum. After all, one is a futuristic sci-fi series in...
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A dislike button could be just what the Internet needs—as long as it doesn't...
Back when I blogged as Valleywag, the prime ankle-biter of the startup world, Digg founder Kevin Rose told me that he was considering a secret feature. Users were over-reporting content they didn't...
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High schoolers in hot water over a drinking game called 'Jews vs. Nazis'
In case you were in any doubt that elaborate drinking games are a pastime enjoyed by historically insensitive goons, yes, “Jews vs. Nazis” beer pong is a real thing. It’s just like normal beer pong,...
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These are the creepiest Airbnb listings of all time
Airbnb has over 600,000 listing all over the world, visited by millions of guests. Some of the listings are even posher than the nearest hotel—there are over 600 castles listed! But not every place put...
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You can't judge an alleged rape survivor from her Facebook history
In January, allegations surfaced that Bright Eyes singer Conor Oberst raped, a North Carolina resident named Joanie Faircloth on her 16th birthday. Originally, Faircloth posted comments about the...
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The final resting place of abandoned Twitter accounts
The rapid proliferation of social media platforms has had the curious effect of allowing each to comment on the others, as Lost Signals, a new Tumblr about Twitter, directly illustrates. The blog does...
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Research project maps human emotions as told by GIFs
The GIF’s ascent from a clunky, outdated file format to the darling of Tumblr is hard to explain. Graphic interchange files are large. They load slowly. They do wonky things compressing visual data if...
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This Twitter account turns Netflix errors into Internet gold
Meet your new favorite social media accounts: Summary Bug, a pair of accounts on Tumblr and Twitter documenting one buggy Netflix app that keeps splicing summaries of shows and movies on the service...
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The ultimate guide to Sebastian Stan, fandom's fiery new obsession
The vagaries of Tumblr’s meme-like crushes often seem unfathomable. Sure, Tom Hiddleston is handsome, but is he really that great? And why are so many people obsessed with Dylan O’Brien, out of all...
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Sorry, Internet, but this is not David Foster Wallace's annotated 'Ulysses'
Since his suicide in 2008, the life, work, and above all literary marginalia of author David Foster Wallace has acquired a saintly glow, inspiring mindless worship—especially online. At this point,...
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