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You can now watch the debut of 'Halt and Catch Fire' on Tumblr
It looks like Tumblr might be getting into the TV business. The pilot for AMC’s new show Halt and Catch Fire debuted on Sunday night, but it also had the distinction of being the first TV show to also...
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Here are the finalists of Pornhub's SFW advertising competition
Last month, the porn tube site Pornhub announced they would be launching the site’s first SFW nationwide advertising campaign, kicking off a competition to anoint the company’s first SFW creative...
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Here's the fanart the 'Teen Wolf' production team picked to decorate their...
Fanwork may still be a controversial subject among creatives and producers, but one franchise has fully embraced the creative outpouring of its fandom. Teen Wolf made history by hosting one of the...
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Don't have time to catch up on an entire TV series? Let Skippable be your guide
If you've ever been in a fandom, you know that marathoning your favorite TV shows is a fine art. For a community eager to stay well-versed on the latest in pop culture, consuming media as quickly as...
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'Supernatural,' 'Attack on Titan' fans create ambitious animation projects
The finale of Supernatural Season 9 aired last night, along with a bombshell that will keep fans on tenterhooks until Season 10 airs in the fall. But in the meantime, a new fan project will hopefully...
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This GIF is so meta it might cause the Internet to implode
Remember that old Lewis Black joke about how a Starbucks across the street from another Starbucks signifies the end of the universe? Well, the end of the universe has changed locations. Now, it’s...
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LiveJournal just rolled out a major update, but is anyone there to notice?
For a brief moment earlier this year, LiveJournal, the early blogging community that paved the way for modern social media platforms, was stunningly relevant in the U.S. once again. A member of its...
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'When Women Refuse': Why we need to talk about saying no
The UCSB shootings last weekend and the misogynistic, hate-fueled rantings of shooting suspect Elliot Rodger spawned an outpouring of emotional responses on social media, some of which were more...
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Here's video of One Direction's Zayn and Louis getting high in a van
Directioners are reeling from newly leaked footage of two of their idols, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik, smoking joints and joking about drug use while riding in a van with what appear to be members...
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Tumblr rolls out recommended posts to your dashboard
Tumblr isn't one to announce its small changes, preferring rather to let them drift into the consciousness of the userbase. The most recent feature to drift onto our dash is Recommended Posts. While...
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Tumblr's cutest crime-fighting duo has Kickstarter dreams
An artist hopes to take a Tumblr-based meme about a cute bear and a Canadian cop and turn it into a successful Kickstarter campaign. Ami Guillen, known on Tumblr as Lemonteaflower, and head writer...
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It's time for Reddit to flush the Red Pill
The discussion sparked by the death of six UCSB students at the hands of 22-year-old Elliot Rodger has, at times, become very heated. The shooter’s frantic rantings against peers—and specifically...
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Terrible community theatre costumes make for an amazing Tumblr
One of the most underrated aspects of the performing arts is the beauty of terrible community theatre. If you've ever been in an under-funded production, you know that necessity is the mother of...
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Laverne Cox is on the cover of Time, but it's not enough
Laverne Cox is getting her own Time cover. She's the first transgender person in history to do so. That's not quite the victory it might first appear. Cox's inexplicable snub from the 2014 Time 100...
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Elliot Rodger's case reveals the dirty underbelly of online communities
We want to believe that events like the mass killing in Isla Vista last Friday are isolated events. That they are non-recurring phenomena. That they have nothing to do with us. And yet, we talk about...
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This 'Book of Life' trailer is a thing of beauty
The Book of Life trailer made a splash yesterday as it debuted to an Internet keen on visual spectacle and unconventional storytelling. Set in Mexico and featuring gorgeous animation, Book of Life...
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The worst of straight white boys texting in one beautiful Tumblr
With the rise of #YesAllWomen, we’ve been talking a lot about male privilege and sexual entitlement, and how we live in a world that caters to the desires of straight white men at the expense of...
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Detroit's decline, as told by Google Street View
As the chief product officer at LOVELAND Technologies—a company whose mission is to “gather and present public information about properties” in the interest of “foreclosure prevention, blight...
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AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire' explores tech's 'Silicon Prairie'
There’s been a lot of talk about how AMC’s new tech drama, Halt and Catch Fire, is getting in the Sunday night elevator just as Mad Men is getting off—at least until the second half of the final...
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Readers blast Chicago Sun-Times for 'transphobic' editorial on Laverne Cox
The Chicago Sun-Times has syndicated a controversial transphobic opinion piece by Kevin Williamson, a former deputy managing editor of the conservative National Review. Williamson attacks noted...
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