Abby Ohlheiser The Washington Post
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"Just As Transphobic As Average Person": JK Rowling Gets Flak For Tweet
J.K. Rowling has long used the internet to tweak the Harry Potter universe she created, surprising fans with trivial revelations from Ron Weasley's patronus to the fact that wizards used to poop in their robes. But on Thursday, Rowling changed many fans' views of her own character when she tweeted her support for a woman who was fired over her anti...
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Last Year's Rewind Was Most Disliked In YouTube History. This Year, There's PewDiePie
YouTube abandoned its cameo-filled approach to Rewind and got out of the way instead.
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This Decade Taught Us To Love Viral Pets. Now We Have To Grieve Their Deaths.
Watching the lives of other people's pets has become a part of the Internet experience, and now so has mourning their deaths. Internet-famous cat Lil Bub had died in her sleep recently.
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PewDiePie Waged a War Against His Critics. When He Tried to Make Peace, His Fans Rebelled.
PewDiePie’s announcement of a donation prompted conspiracy theories and angry memes from some of his fans, who claimed without evidence on Twitter, Reddit, and in the comments of his video that the star must have been blackmailed into making the donation.
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YouTube Star PewDiePie Wages War Against Critics, Tries Making Peace
Longtime YouTubers are among the first to know what it means to mature in real time on the Internet. It means constantly reckoning with what you've done online, which is liable to resurface and make the rounds on Twitter, prompting a new cycle of self-searching apology videos that have become a predictable genre unto themselves.
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Man Slashed Throat Of Teen Popular On Instagram, Took Selfie With Body
Police arrived at the gruesome scene Sunday morning, alerted by frantic calls from users on the messaging app Discord. What police heard in those calls was horrifying: Someone had uploaded an image of a bloodied, lifeless young woman to the server, her throat marred by a deep gash.
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Christchurch Mosque Shooter Knew How To Make His Massacre Viral
As the gunman accused of killing 49 people in attacks on two New Zealand mosques put his murderous plan into action, he had an audience. Using what appeared to be a helmet camera, the gunman live-streamed his attack, speaking to users.
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US Singer R Kelly, Charged With Sex Abuse, To Pay $1 Million For Bail
A judge set R. Kelly's bond at $1 million dollars on Saturday afternoon, following the R&B singer's Friday arrest on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
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Doomsday Clock Is Stuck At 2 Minutes To "Midnight," Symbolic Hour Of Apocalypse
The scientists announced Thursday that the clock is stuck at 11:58, citing nuclear weapons and climate change as two existential risks that leave the world dangerous close to an apocalypse.
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How An Old, Far-Right Meme About "Prayer Rugs" Became Trump Tweet
On Friday morning, the President of the United States tweeted about a 2-day-old Washington Examiner article with an unsubstantiated claim from one anonymous rancher.
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Three Ways to Live With Facebook
Naturally, when people don't trust a thing the impulse is to stop using it. Quitting Facebook has become a meme - one that, research shows, some are actually following through with.
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YouTube's Biggest Creator, PewDiePie, Is Forever At War
In early 2017, when the Wall Street Journal called attention to the fact that PewDiePie made Nazi jokes on his YouTube channel, fans of the most-subscribed YouTuber in the world went to war.
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YouTube Rewind 2018 Is Full of People Who Didn't Become Famous on YouTube (and Also Fortnite)
The famous YouTubers who feature in the YouTube Rewind 2018 video are primarily gathered around a campfire, talking (dressed vaguely like characters from Fortnite, maybe!).
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Before Tumblr Banned Adult Content, It Was a Safe Space for Exploring Identity
The new rules will ban "images, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals" or "female-presenting nipples," a phrase that became a derisive meme about the new policy.
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PewDiePie To Be Dethroned As YouTube’s Most Subscribed. Guess By Who?
Two numbers sit side-by-side: PewDiePie: 67,343,327. T-Series: 67,155,597
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"Just As Transphobic As Average Person": JK Rowling Gets Flak For Tweet
J.K. Rowling has long used the internet to tweak the Harry Potter universe she created, surprising fans with trivial revelations from Ron Weasley's patronus to the fact that wizards used to poop in their robes. But on Thursday, Rowling changed many fans' views of her own character when she tweeted her support for a woman who was fired over her anti...
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Last Year's Rewind Was Most Disliked In YouTube History. This Year, There's PewDiePie
YouTube abandoned its cameo-filled approach to Rewind and got out of the way instead.
-
This Decade Taught Us To Love Viral Pets. Now We Have To Grieve Their Deaths.
Watching the lives of other people's pets has become a part of the Internet experience, and now so has mourning their deaths. Internet-famous cat Lil Bub had died in her sleep recently.
-
PewDiePie Waged a War Against His Critics. When He Tried to Make Peace, His Fans Rebelled.
PewDiePie’s announcement of a donation prompted conspiracy theories and angry memes from some of his fans, who claimed without evidence on Twitter, Reddit, and in the comments of his video that the star must have been blackmailed into making the donation.
-
YouTube Star PewDiePie Wages War Against Critics, Tries Making Peace
Longtime YouTubers are among the first to know what it means to mature in real time on the Internet. It means constantly reckoning with what you've done online, which is liable to resurface and make the rounds on Twitter, prompting a new cycle of self-searching apology videos that have become a predictable genre unto themselves.
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Man Slashed Throat Of Teen Popular On Instagram, Took Selfie With Body
Police arrived at the gruesome scene Sunday morning, alerted by frantic calls from users on the messaging app Discord. What police heard in those calls was horrifying: Someone had uploaded an image of a bloodied, lifeless young woman to the server, her throat marred by a deep gash.
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Christchurch Mosque Shooter Knew How To Make His Massacre Viral
As the gunman accused of killing 49 people in attacks on two New Zealand mosques put his murderous plan into action, he had an audience. Using what appeared to be a helmet camera, the gunman live-streamed his attack, speaking to users.
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US Singer R Kelly, Charged With Sex Abuse, To Pay $1 Million For Bail
A judge set R. Kelly's bond at $1 million dollars on Saturday afternoon, following the R&B singer's Friday arrest on 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse.
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Doomsday Clock Is Stuck At 2 Minutes To "Midnight," Symbolic Hour Of Apocalypse
The scientists announced Thursday that the clock is stuck at 11:58, citing nuclear weapons and climate change as two existential risks that leave the world dangerous close to an apocalypse.
-
How An Old, Far-Right Meme About "Prayer Rugs" Became Trump Tweet
On Friday morning, the President of the United States tweeted about a 2-day-old Washington Examiner article with an unsubstantiated claim from one anonymous rancher.
-
Three Ways to Live With Facebook
Naturally, when people don't trust a thing the impulse is to stop using it. Quitting Facebook has become a meme - one that, research shows, some are actually following through with.
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YouTube's Biggest Creator, PewDiePie, Is Forever At War
In early 2017, when the Wall Street Journal called attention to the fact that PewDiePie made Nazi jokes on his YouTube channel, fans of the most-subscribed YouTuber in the world went to war.
-
YouTube Rewind 2018 Is Full of People Who Didn't Become Famous on YouTube (and Also Fortnite)
The famous YouTubers who feature in the YouTube Rewind 2018 video are primarily gathered around a campfire, talking (dressed vaguely like characters from Fortnite, maybe!).
-
Before Tumblr Banned Adult Content, It Was a Safe Space for Exploring Identity
The new rules will ban "images, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals" or "female-presenting nipples," a phrase that became a derisive meme about the new policy.
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PewDiePie To Be Dethroned As YouTube’s Most Subscribed. Guess By Who?
Two numbers sit side-by-side: PewDiePie: 67,343,327. T-Series: 67,155,597
