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Where network TV social media accounts go to die
Ever wonder what happens to the network-run social media accounts of your least-favorite TV shows after they face cancelation? While many Twitter or Tumblr accounts are purged of content and recyled...
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Television networks, stop trying to make fandom happen
BY ALEXANDRA EDWARDS“The network is actively trying to court a fandom audience.”Speaking as a fan, I’m not sure I’ve ever read a more horrifying sentence. I’m paraphrasing from the Daily Dot’s own...
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12 grandpas who are better at Facebook than you
When you’re talking about how the elderly use the Internet, “grandmothers on Facebook” is a known quantity: gentle admonishments to behave better, public confusion about the site’s basic functions,...
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Who are the 'Women Against Feminism'?
BY BETH ELDERKIN In recent weeks, the Women Against Feminism Tumblr has surged in popularity and stirred up debate. It’s where women anonymously share selfies explaining why they reject feminism,...
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Tumblr post sparks Studio Ghibli shutdown rumor
Anime fans around the world were in a state of panic on Sunday night. Studio Ghibli, creator of beloved films such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, was apparently closing up shop.This news was...
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Mattresses of New York turns bedbug-ridden trash into high art
One New Yorker’s discarded, bedbug-infested mattress is another’s work of art. Scott Indrisek, 33, is the creator of the single-serving Tumblr blog Mattresses of New York, a compendium of pictures of...
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Woman uses Nike+ app to draw penises all over San Francisco
This article contains sexually explicit material that may be NSFW.Using fitness-tracking apps like Strava or Nike+ to make quirky art or write inspiring messages is not a new phenomenon. But one...
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Chuck Palahniuk's confused gender politics are stranger than fiction
On the Internet, there’s a very simple shorthand for an admission of wrongdoing: deletion. Publish a regrettable blog post and you can strike it from the record—or try to, anyway.Chuck Palahniuk,...
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The real story behind the research on 'Twitter psychosis'
BY MIRI MOGILEVSKYThe perils and pitfalls of social media—getting fired from your job, having bad self-esteem because of all your friends’ selfies, fear of missing out—are probably familiar to most of...
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Online harassment forces Robin Williams's daughter offline
Zelda Williams is taking a break from social media after trolls sent her gruesome Photoshopped images of her father, Robin Williams, following his death on Monday.She and the rest of her family have...
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How the growing generation gap is changing the face of fandom
Earlier this month, two fan conventions came to London: Nine Worlds and the World Science Fiction Convention, commonly know as Worldcon.Worldcon is in its 72nd year, a huge old dinosaur (or perhaps an...
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Nothing will satisfy your appetite like food that looks like Iggy Azalea
Iggy Azalea is a lot of things: rapper, model, and perhaps most surprisingly, a doppelgänger for a raw marinating chicken. The Tumblr, Food That Looks Like Iggy Azalea, sprung up in mid-August and has...
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'Arrested Development' recruits fans to design the season 4 DVD cover
More than a year after the fourth season of Arrested Development debuted in binge-form on Netflix, the show is finally being released on DVD, but not without some help from the fans.Instead of...
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This GIF of a balloon dog can be yours for $5,800 on eBay
Do two wrong arts make a right? At least one eBay seller seems to think so.Last year, a sculpture by Jeff Koons—who is either a pioneering genius or a monstrous, self-merchandising fraud—became the...
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The 4 rules guys should follow when they get rejected on Tinder
Tinder user and couch-based futures contract trader Tom isn’t the first guy whose explosively childish response to being rejected politely by a woman has gone viral—just the latest. Tom called the...
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The one thing #WhyIStayed doesn't mention about partner violence
Note: This article features graphic descriptions of domestic violence and may be triggering for some viewers.Like most people, I was extremely moved by #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft, the hashtags that...
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The dildo stays in the picture
The latest silly Tumblr to go viral is Subtle Dildo, which features scenes of people casually sitting around their homes engaging in ordinary activities—with a dildo lurking somewhere in the...
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Behind the haunting GIFs of Kevin Weir
Tumblr’s stable of deranged GIF artists just got a new addition.Kevin Weir is a New York-based art director and illustrator whose three-year-old GIF project Flux Machine has captured the Internet's...
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The median income of Tumblr users is $80K a year
While you were mocking the rich kids of Instagram, they all moved to Tumblr. New market research provided by Tumblr to AdWeek reveals that the median income of Tumblr users is higher than that of...
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Taylor Swift takes her cat photos to Tumblr
Taylor Swift may not seem like an ideal fit for the slightly hipstery world of Tumblr, but she’s getting the hang of it. Slowly but surely, her blog has become precisely as adorable and self-aware as...
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