The angst of nu metal is being discovered by Gen Z, but with digital eyes always looming, the ephemeral catharsis of collectively going mad is a thing of the past.
Category: Social Media
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AWS Cloud-Computing Outage Left Smart Bed Customers Without Sleep
The widespread outage involving the cloud-computing provider Amazon Web Services was particularly disruptive ensnared unexpected consumers earlier this week: People who just wanted to sleep well.
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Who Is the Dapper Louvre Heist ‘Detective’? And Is He Even Real?
Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate.
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Sea Otters and Museums Are Feeling Taylor Swift’s Midas Touch
After the release of her latest album, an aquarium in California and a museum in Germany suddenly were thrust into the center of Taylor Swift’s fandom. Just how big is Swift’s cultural reach?
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Beyond Meat Stock Price Gains 1,000% in Days, in Latest Meme Mania
The beleaguered company’s stock has surged in the past few days, fueled by social media buzz and echoes of past meme-stock frenzies.
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How Can I Get My Daughter-in-Law to Add Me to Her Instagram Story?
A reader feels left out when she sees photos of her granddaughters hanging out with their mother’s side of the family — including at gatherings at which she was present.
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Stephanie Johnson, Burlesque Dancer With Stories to Tell, Dies at 81
Her memories of her days as Tanqueray in the gritty New York of the 1960s and ’70s found a new audience in recent years and made her a social media star.
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What Is Group 7 on TikTok? Sophia James Explains Her Exclusive Club.
A “science experiment” by the singer Sophia James has people proudly declaring their membership in an exclusive group.
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Mother of Girl Who Fell Overboard on Disney Cruise Will Not Face Charges
The incident, in which a girl fell from a Disney cruise ship and her father jumped in to save her, was captured on video and shared widely on social media. A prosecutor said the mother had a lapse in “proper judgment.”
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The Woman Who Livestreamed Her Birth on Twitch
Cady Hoffman and her husband, Bryan Loyd — Fandy and Adamax, to their Twitch followers — talk about broadcasting their daughter’s birth to almost 30,000 gamers.
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When Your Mom Becomes an Accidental Influencer
How an influencer and a former Voguette became TikTok’s favorite intergenerational fashion duo.
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Have Something to Say? Put It on a Flier.
They’re not just for missing pets or yard sales. Fliers these days are for internet memes, self-promotion and extremely esoteric messages.