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  1. drama
    800 Black Performers Sign Letter in Support of Francesca Amewudah-RiversAfter she faced racism online for being cast opposite Tom Holland in Romeo & Juliet.
    By Jason P. Frank
  2. a long talk
    ‘Geminis Create Change’Steve Lacy used to be afraid of rock stardom. His new album helped fix that.
    By Craig Jenkins
  3. album review
    Syd’s New Love StoryThe singer-producer’s latest album, Broken Hearts Club, sheds the hedonistic visions of her earlier work.
    By Tirhakah Love
  4. extremely online
    New ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ Just DroppedSorry to Billy Joel.
    By Emily Palmer Heller
  5. halloween
    Nick Lutsko: The Sweaty, Deranged Hero of HalloweenTalking with Twitter’s low-key comedy-music mastermind.
    By Emily Palmer Heller
  6. the internet
    Yes, Jack Black’s Mom Really Did Help Save Apollo 13Sometimes the internet speaks the truth.
    By Bethy Squires
  7. end of an era
    Q: How Will We Come to Terms With the End of Yahoo Answers? A: ????The site is shutting down on May 4, and we need someone to tell us how to cope.
    By Halle Kiefer
  8. extremely online
    Reddit Presses Play on Video Ventures, Buys DubsmashThe TikTok competitor has a high user base of Black teens and women.
    By Justin Curto
  9. the internet
    Milana Vayntrub, AT&T Girl, Pleads for Online Sexual Harassment to Stop“I am not consenting to any of this. I do not want any of this.”
    By Devon Ivie
  10. extremely online
    YouTube and Reddit Put Their Foot Down, Ban Far-Right ContentYouTube took down six accounts, while Reddit banned over 2,000 subreddits.
    By Justin Curto
  11. extremely online
    How Baby Yoda Took Over the Internet[Sips broth.]
    By Madison Malone Kircher
  12. the internet
    The Best Cartoons of the Early InternetLooking back on some early internet animated classics, from Homestar Runner to Salad Fingers.
    By Ramsey Ess
  13. the internet
    Hasan Minhaj Wants to Mail You a Netflix DVDIf your internet provider sucks, there is a way out!
    By Bethy Squires
  14. the internet
    Why Netflix’s One Day at a Time Cancellation Feels Like a BetrayalWhen a multi-billion-dollar media company tweets like your online friend, its business decisions are bound to feel personal.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  15. fyre festival
    A GoFundMe for the Fyre Fest Caterers Has Raised Over $160,000Time to set right what scammers have wrought.
    By Bethy Squires
  16. the internet
    Scarlett Johansson Ruminates on All the Deepfake Porn Made From Her Image“I think it’s a useless pursuit, legally, mostly because the internet is a vast wormhole of darkness that eats itself.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  17. the internet
    Grimes’s Complicated Relationship With the InternetWhy do we care so much about what Grimes does?
    By Larry Fitzmaurice
  18. close reads
    The Good Place Isn’t About Heaven and Hell, It’s About the InternetThis sitcom proves that TV can still bring people together in the streaming age.
    By Lara Zarum
  19. kanye west
    Kanye West’s Relationship to the Internet and Also Twitter Is Not GreatHe sees the web as a platform devoid of the messy particulars of real life.
    By Jeff Ihaza
  20. songs of the week
    5 Best New Songs of the Week: The 1975, A$AP Rocky & Tyler the Creator, AnittaThe 1975’s Matty Healy once again proves why he’s one of the last of a dying breed of rock star.
    By Vulture Editors
  21. music review
    The Feel Good Mutant Soul of Dirty Projectors’ Lamp Lit ProseIt’s all upbeat ruminations on affection and excitement, where the last album fixated almost exhaustingly on rot.
    By Craig Jenkins
  22. songs of the week
    7 Best New Songs of the Week: The 1975, Kanye, The Internet, Lykke Li, GorillazIs one of Kanye’s new songs secretly a fun. cover?
    By Vulture Editors
  23. music review
    The Internet Has Already Devoured ‘This Is America’But it still has power.
    By Craig Jenkins
  24. 9 Best New Songs of the Week: Janelle Monáe, the Internet, Oneohtrix Point NeverJanelle Monáe wants to “screw” the world back together.
    By Vulture Editors
  25. Funny or Die Moves to Vox Media This Summer A little over a month after huge layoffs at the company, another big change is coming to Funny or Die. According to Variety, after over ten […]
    By Megh Wright
  26. How Facebook Is Killing ComedyA conversation with Funny or Die’s Matt Klinman on how Facebook has completely destroyed independent digital comedy.
    By Sarah Aswell
  27. coen brothers
    Coen Brothers to Write a Dark-Web MovieAbout the Silk Road (the online one, not the medieval one).
    By Jackson McHenry
  28. trolls
    Dan Aykroyd Weighs In on Leslie Jones’s Trolls“They’re insignificant gnats, they’re losers, they have no lives of their own …”
    By Halle Kiefer
  29. the internet
    Twitter Says It’s Handling Leslie Jones’s Trolls“We realize we still have a lot of work in front of us before Twitter is where it should be on how we handle these issues.”
    By Devon Ivie and Tolly Wright
  30. year in culture 2015
    The 10 Best Lists of 2015What parade of year-end lists would be complete without a list of lists?
    By Max Read
  31. beef
    Jack White’s Contentious History With the InternetSo many open letters.
    By Dan Reilly
  32. content
    Jack White Wishes We Would Stop Writing Blog Posts Exactly Like This OneWe are aware of the irony.
    By Nate Jones
  33. This Russian Filmmaker Invented Response Memes 100 Years AgoAh, internet memes. Depending who you are, they’re what you make online and talk about with your buddies at school, what your goddamn kid won’t […]
    By Eddie Brawley
  34. the internet
    Twitter Goes Nuts With #LifetimeBiopics After the Aaliyah Movie Premieres This was inevitable.
    By E. Alex Jung
  35. james franco does it all
    James Franco Places Himself at the Internet’s MercyPeanut butter, sock puppets, puppies.
    By E. Alex Jung
  36. the internet
    Bill Cosby Asks Internet to ‘Meme’ Him; Twitter Responds With Rape AllegationsDeclaring “Go ahead. Meme me!” is rarely a smart move.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  37. the internet
    Aubrey Plaza Will Be the Voice of Grumpy CatIn Lifetime’s live-action Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever.
    By Anna Silman
  38. the internet
    Play the Oddest Seinfeld Game That Ever WasAnd hear Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend doing an a cappella version of the theme song.
    By Jesse David Fox
  39. remember the early 2000s?
    The New Homestar Runner Cartoon Is Soooo GoodRemember? Homestar Runner?
    By Margaret Lyons
  40. tributes
    How Television Without Pity Shaped Pop CultureEver read a TV recap?
    By Margaret Lyons
  41. Ranking the Internet Friendliness of 7 Comedy NetworksHBO made a bold promotional move this week by putting the first two episodes of Girls’ new season up on YouTube for free, allowing even the […]
    By Megh Wright
  42. this! is! jeopardy!
    Jeopardy! Addressed the GIF-Pronunciation WarsTrebek said it with a soft G.
    By Margaret Lyons
  43. the internet
    Kanye’s ‘Gone’ Is in the Top 20 NowBecause of that “I Quit” video.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  44. the internet
    The Breaking Bad Finale’s Best Memes, Tributes, and CallbacksWhat would this show be without the Internet?
    By Lindsey Weber
  45. A Look At the Earliest ‘Simpsons’ Message Board“Online Simpsons fans still sum up the Internet as a whole: simultaneously angry, happy, knee-jerk, brainy, cromulent, and deranged.” - Slate […]
    By Elise Czajkowski
  46. vine on
    More Than Just Cats: 14 Clever Six-Second Vine MoviesShortest Attention Span Theater.
    By Sarah Frank
  47. the internet
    The Best Costumes From the 2012 HallowMeme PartySo many binders, all full of women.
    By Konstantin Sergeyev
  48. the internet
    Scooter Braun Signed the ‘Gangnam Style’ GuyThis is happening.
    By Amanda Dobbins
  49. ‘Cracked’: From ‘MAD’ Ripoff to the Internet’s Nerdy Older CousinDaniel O’Brien is very much like a lot of us. In his mid-twenties, he’s a big Simpsons fan and spends a lot of time reading, watching TV, and […]
    By Stephen Winchell
  50. How Jimmy Fallon’s Online Bonus Content Sausage Gets MadeOver at Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, a trio of talented comedians spend all day every day working on original content for the show’s website […]
    By Adam Frucci
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