Every few months, a new, flirty and fun personality archetype drops on the internet. A few years ago, it was VSCO girls, for ladies who love their waterbottles, Fjallraven Kanken backpacks, and Save the Turtles stickers; a few months back, it was the Clean Girl, for those Emily Mariko types …
Read More »'Just Evil': Gunman Kills 19 Kids at Texas Elementary School
It has been less than a decade since 26 people, most of them children, were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary, and barely 10 days since the last major U.S. mass shooting made national news in Buffalo. And now, yet again, the nation faces the senseless deaths of a mass shooting …
Read More »Cara Delevingne, Can You Please Chill?
Remember Cara Delevingne, of Taylor Swift #girlsquad and Ashley Benson sex swing-shopping fame? Over the past week, the model-turned-actress-question-mark, who is perhaps best known for her “Shane from The L Word”-esque reputation in Hollywood (she’s dated Benson and St. Vincent, among others, and has been tied to numerous other models …
Read More »Arizona Man Arrested After 183 Dead Animals Found in His Freezer
An Arizona man was arrested and charged with animal cruelty after a menagerie of pets — including snakes, lizards, birds, dogs, and rabbits — were found in his freezer. Michael Patrick Turland faces 94 counts of animal cruelty after Mohave County deputies uncovered his frozen collection of dead animals, including …
Read More »Parents Are Freaking Out Over Huggy Wuggy, a Janky Blue Bear With Razor-Sharp Teeth
There’s nothing that parents of small children love more than giving kids unfettered access to phones and iPads — then freaking out over what kinds of age-inappropriate content they may be seeing on such devices. Case in point: the recent panic over Huggy Wuggy, a character from a video game …
Read More »He Told Investors They Could Cash in on Weed Vaping. The Feds Say He Pocketed $37 Million
One surefire way to draw investors is to promise them a piece of the cannabis or vaping industry — or better yet, both. That’s what one self-described “brazen” California “businessman” did, according to the Department of Justice. The only problem is he allegedly didn’t actually run a company. On Tuesday, …
Read More »Yellowbrick, NYU American Journalism Online, and Rolling Stone Launch Modern Journalism Program
Yellowbrick, the leading online education provider for the Creator Economy and creative fields, announced that it has collaborated with NYU American Journalism Online (NYU), and Rolling Stone to launch Modern Journalism, an online course that teaches the expository, explanatory, and literary techniques used in Journalism today. Learners will hear directly …
Read More »Accused Bitcoin Mega Crook Made Rap Videos. And Dear God, Are They Cringey
Heather Morgan is a lot of things: A 31-year-old economist and self-proclaimed “serial entrepreneur” who’s worked in tech for a decade, a Forbes contributor from 2018 to 2021, a surrealist artist whose beyond-trippy pieces are often inspired by her synesthesia and sometimes include prosthetic eyeballs, and an outlandish rapper who …
Read More »NFL Commish on Coaching Diversity Amid Brian Flores Lawsuit: 'The Results Have Been Unacceptable'
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell issued a league-wide memo Saturday in response to the lawsuit filed by former Dolphins coach Brian Flores that alleged the league has racist hiring practices. Flores’ lawsuit — which stated that the league “remains rife with racism, particularly when it comes to the hiring and retention …
Read More »The First Major Drama of 2022 Is Between a Bunch of Disney Adults on TikTok
Of all the Main Characters on the internet, there is perhaps no creature that merits more opprobrium, more rank disgust, than the Disney Adult. Characterized by their omnipresent enthusiasm, rose-gold Minnie Mouse ears, and gum-baring grins while posing for selfies in front of Cinderella’s Castle, Disney Adults are grown people …
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