Images of the pop star were convincing enough to trick plenty of people. on social media, including Ms. Perry’s own mother.

The writers behind Hate Reads, a pop-up newsletter for airing grievances and pet peeves, got up on their soap boxes.

The students taking Harvard University’s class on the singer are studying up. Their final papers are due at the end of the month.

Ex-boyfriends may be alluded to. Travis Kelce, too, fans believe. And some actual poets.

The phrase has become ubiquitous online as a way to celebrate life’s small pleasures — at least until “we’re so over.”

(Or tries to.)

For a brief, quaky moment, the social media platform was atwitter.

A royal look-alike clears the air on a recent conspiracy theory.

A new slang term with an old meaning emerges on TikTok.

Ads for Hallow, with its pitchman Mark Wahlberg, are reaching nonreligious social media users, much to their surprise.