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How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z • + Holiday hauls, digital homesteading, charm robots, a Netflix for Wikipedia, Ozempic Santa in sad beige SKIMS, Temu Amazon dupeception, IRL Hallmark jobs, and how to get your chatbot high on drugs
How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z
+ Holiday hauls, digital homesteading, charm robots, a Netflix for Wikipedia, Ozempic Santa in sad beige SKIMS, Temu Amazon dupeception, IRL Hallmark jobs, and how to get your chatbot high on drugs
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December 17, 2025 at 8:54 PM
How Charlie Kirk Memes Are Radicalizing Gen Z • + Holiday hauls, digital homesteading, charm robots, a Netflix for Wikipedia, Ozempic Santa in sad beige SKIMS, Temu Amazon dupeception, IRL Hallmark jobs, and how to get your chatbot high on drugs
Congress Is About to Break the Internet • + Chinamaxxing, vibe interviewing, a JoJo Siwa cruise, Disney x OpenAI, Operation Bluebird, Santa bones, Alan’s Universe, Próspera's implosion, and inside the dark world of crypto casinos
Congress Is About to Break the Internet
+ Chinamaxxing, vibe interviewing, a JoJo Siwa cruise, Disney x OpenAI, Operation Bluebird, Santa bones, Alan’s Universe, Próspera's implosion, and inside the dark world of crypto casinos
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December 11, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Congress Is About to Break the Internet • + Chinamaxxing, vibe interviewing, a JoJo Siwa cruise, Disney x OpenAI, Operation Bluebird, Santa bones, Alan’s Universe, Próspera's implosion, and inside the dark world of crypto casinos
A prediction market for shortform content • + TikTok's onion lady, total darkness retreats, an Apple bloodbath, looksmaxxer fraudmaxxing, Jake Paul's startup accelerator, Certified Bangers goes MIA, and tech bro etiquette school,
A prediction market for shortform content
+ TikTok's onion lady, total darkness retreats, an Apple bloodbath, looksmaxxer fraudmaxxing, Jake Paul's startup accelerator, Certified Bangers goes MIA, and tech bro etiquette school,
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December 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
A prediction market for shortform content • + TikTok's onion lady, total darkness retreats, an Apple bloodbath, looksmaxxer fraudmaxxing, Jake Paul's startup accelerator, Certified Bangers goes MIA, and tech bro etiquette school,
Join our AMA on how 'online safety laws' like age verification censor abortion info and sex ed! • + Millennial optimism, Pentagon TikTokers, tabloids to Tumblr, Nick Fuentes clone army, Diaper Diplomacy, Somali trolling, and an incredible 445 page slide deck outlining cultural trends and insights
Join our AMA on how 'online safety laws' like age verification censor abortion info and sex ed!
+ Millennial optimism, Pentagon TikTokers, tabloids to Tumblr, Nick Fuentes clone army, Diaper Diplomacy, Somali trolling, and an incredible 445 page slide deck outlining cultural trends and insights
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December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Join our AMA on how 'online safety laws' like age verification censor abortion info and sex ed! • + Millennial optimism, Pentagon TikTokers, tabloids to Tumblr, Nick Fuentes clone army, Diaper Diplomacy, Somali trolling, and an incredible 445 page slide deck outlining cultural trends and insights
None Of This is About Online Safety • + The Nepo Baby Met Gala, OpenAi's code red, Wiggles cancellation, Sabrina Carpenter vs Trump, face scans, AI holiday decor, Kimsmas, rage bait, and why Gen Z is treating cash like fake money
None Of This is About Online Safety
+ The Nepo Baby Met Gala, OpenAi's code red, Wiggles cancellation, Sabrina Carpenter vs Trump, face scans, AI holiday decor, Kimsmas, rage bait, and why Gen Z is treating cash like fake money
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December 2, 2025 at 11:57 PM
None Of This is About Online Safety • + The Nepo Baby Met Gala, OpenAi's code red, Wiggles cancellation, Sabrina Carpenter vs Trump, face scans, AI holiday decor, Kimsmas, rage bait, and why Gen Z is treating cash like fake money
The Platform Where Thousands of College Kids Can Livestream Their Dates • + Bird Game, slop evader, war prediction markets, Gen Z's Black Friday faves, Socialism AI, Luigi's day in court, horny lit girl winter, Zohran vs Dimes Sq, and fandom’s AI clout economy
The Platform Where Thousands of College Kids Can Livestream Their Dates
+ Bird Game, slop evader, war prediction markets, Gen Z's Black Friday faves, Socialism AI, Luigi's day in court, horny lit girl winter, Zohran vs Dimes Sq, and fandom’s AI clout economy
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December 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The Platform Where Thousands of College Kids Can Livestream Their Dates • + Bird Game, slop evader, war prediction markets, Gen Z's Black Friday faves, Socialism AI, Luigi's day in court, horny lit girl winter, Zohran vs Dimes Sq, and fandom’s AI clout economy
An Algorithm-Free Feed for $1,999/month • + Rizbulla, News Daddy, 9/11 for MAGA accounts, Phonk aesthetics, William Banks' latest stunt, a baguette recession, brand apologies, DOGE death, skincare Drybar, & wool of gay sheep passes woke test
An Algorithm-Free Feed for $1,999/month
+ Rizbulla, News Daddy, 9/11 for MAGA accounts, Phonk aesthetics, William Banks' latest stunt, a baguette recession, brand apologies, DOGE death, skincare Drybar, & wool of gay sheep passes woke test
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November 25, 2025 at 11:57 PM
An Algorithm-Free Feed for $1,999/month • + Rizbulla, News Daddy, 9/11 for MAGA accounts, Phonk aesthetics, William Banks' latest stunt, a baguette recession, brand apologies, DOGE death, skincare Drybar, & wool of gay sheep passes woke test
The Brands Propping Up Right Wing YouTube • + TheoBros, nation wide quarter zip meetups, family logos, advent calendar mania, Cluely's Carrie era, natsec moms, MS Now face, and a slop tax
The Brands Propping Up Right Wing YouTube
+ TheoBros, nation wide quarter zip meetups, family logos, advent calendar mania, Cluely's Carrie era, natsec moms, MS Now face, and a slop tax
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Brands Propping Up Right Wing YouTube • + TheoBros, nation wide quarter zip meetups, family logos, advent calendar mania, Cluely's Carrie era, natsec moms, MS Now face, and a slop tax
The MAGA Internet Meltdown Down Over Epstein w/ Brace Belden • + The Quarter Zip lifestyle, Nathan Fielder on Raya, MrBeast's theme park, Dasha Nekrasova's downfall, Labubu stocks, ChatGPT group chats, and the Charlie Kirk tribute song taking over Spotify
The MAGA Internet Meltdown Down Over Epstein w/ Brace Belden
+ The Quarter Zip lifestyle, Nathan Fielder on Raya, MrBeast's theme park, Dasha Nekrasova's downfall, Labubu stocks, ChatGPT group chats, and the Charlie Kirk tribute song taking over Spotify
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The MAGA Internet Meltdown Down Over Epstein w/ Brace Belden • + The Quarter Zip lifestyle, Nathan Fielder on Raya, MrBeast's theme park, Dasha Nekrasova's downfall, Labubu stocks, ChatGPT group chats, and the Charlie Kirk tribute song taking over Spotify
The Anti-AI Grift + College Football Surveillance • + The great Kirkification Pop the Balloon dating, AI childbirth, apocalypse capitalism, Costco singles night, Vine 2.0, Trump Clinton shippers, flipping the camera, and a Ralph Lauren x-mas
The Anti-AI Grift + College Football Surveillance
+ The great Kirkification Pop the Balloon dating, AI childbirth, apocalypse capitalism, Costco singles night, Vine 2.0, Trump Clinton shippers, flipping the camera, and a Ralph Lauren x-mas
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Anti-AI Grift + College Football Surveillance • + The great Kirkification Pop the Balloon dating, AI childbirth, apocalypse capitalism, Costco singles night, Vine 2.0, Trump Clinton shippers, flipping the camera, and a Ralph Lauren x-mas
How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War • + Certified Bangers, the Great Yassification, Nike’s non-binary furry, UES mama meltdown, the forehead kiss of doom and despair, human safari hunting trips, and the secret radical history of Santacon
How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War
+ Certified Bangers, the Great Yassification, Nike’s non-binary furry, UES mama meltdown, the forehead kiss of doom and despair, human safari hunting trips, and the secret radical history of Santacon
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War • + Certified Bangers, the Great Yassification, Nike’s non-binary furry, UES mama meltdown, the forehead kiss of doom and despair, human safari hunting trips, and the secret radical history of Santacon
Right-wing influencers earn higher fees for sponsored posts than left-wing counterparts • Sora strangulations, Slurmcore, Bearista breakdowns, a skincare line for 3 yr olds, fitness influencers' hotness problem, MrBeast + Dealbook, Rizzwiches, how far ChatGPT will *really* go
Right-wing influencers earn higher fees for sponsored posts than left-wing counterparts
Sora strangulations, Slurmcore, Bearista breakdowns, a skincare line for 3 yr olds, fitness influencers' hotness problem, MrBeast + Dealbook, Rizzwiches, how far ChatGPT will *really* go
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Right-wing influencers earn higher fees for sponsored posts than left-wing counterparts • Sora strangulations, Slurmcore, Bearista breakdowns, a skincare line for 3 yr olds, fitness influencers' hotness problem, MrBeast + Dealbook, Rizzwiches, how far ChatGPT will *really* go
Billionaires including Mark Cuban are backing a high stakes legal plot to destroy Citizens United • + 85% of top news content creators are men, Dare Market, AI podcast clones, frontal lobe breakups, AI generated Billboard hits, Curtis Silwa's babygirlification, PewDiePie vibe coding, racist TikToks
Billionaires including Mark Cuban are backing a high stakes legal plot to destroy Citizens United
+ 85% of top news content creators are men, Dare Market, AI podcast clones, frontal lobe breakups, AI generated Billboard hits, Curtis Silwa's babygirlification, PewDiePie vibe coding, racist TikToks
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Billionaires including Mark Cuban are backing a high stakes legal plot to destroy Citizens United • + 85% of top news content creators are men, Dare Market, AI podcast clones, frontal lobe breakups, AI generated Billboard hits, Curtis Silwa's babygirlification, PewDiePie vibe coding, racist TikToks
Andrew Cuomo is going all in on MAGA influencers • + Ghost posts, Bestie Epstein, Gen Z's 'going out top,' Razzlekhan released, anti-facial recognition glasses, a new streamer award show, Eric Adams on Ziwe, goth girl autumn, & real estate's slop era
Andrew Cuomo is going all in on MAGA influencers
+ Ghost posts, Bestie Epstein, Gen Z's 'going out top,' Razzlekhan released, anti-facial recognition glasses, a new streamer award show, Eric Adams on Ziwe, goth girl autumn, & real estate's slop era
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Andrew Cuomo is going all in on MAGA influencers • + Ghost posts, Bestie Epstein, Gen Z's 'going out top,' Razzlekhan released, anti-facial recognition glasses, a new streamer award show, Eric Adams on Ziwe, goth girl autumn, & real estate's slop era
Can Twitch Survive? CEO Dan Clancy at Twitchcon • + Vibe lifing, the GTA 6 twerk button, NBA ASMR, bricked smartbeds, YouTubers at the Pentagon, Musk's robot army, Sora pet videos, gooning mania, and inside MrBeast’s $100M day in court
Can Twitch Survive? CEO Dan Clancy at Twitchcon
+ Vibe lifing, the GTA 6 twerk button, NBA ASMR, bricked smartbeds, YouTubers at the Pentagon, Musk's robot army, Sora pet videos, gooning mania, and inside MrBeast’s $100M day in court
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Can Twitch Survive? CEO Dan Clancy at Twitchcon • + Vibe lifing, the GTA 6 twerk button, NBA ASMR, bricked smartbeds, YouTubers at the Pentagon, Musk's robot army, Sora pet videos, gooning mania, and inside MrBeast’s $100M day in court
Livestreaming as the antidote to AI • + Long Halloween, Sora fetish content, Japan’s floptok icon, Trump vs Harry Sisson, Sombr drama, phone bans in bars, Group 7, AnthPo’s undercover stunt, and the tech right’s new Phyllis Schlafly
Livestreaming as the antidote to AI
+ Long Halloween, Sora fetish content, Japan’s floptok icon, Trump vs Harry Sisson, Sombr drama, phone bans in bars, Group 7, AnthPo’s undercover stunt, and the tech right’s new Phyllis Schlafly
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Livestreaming as the antidote to AI • + Long Halloween, Sora fetish content, Japan’s floptok icon, Trump vs Harry Sisson, Sombr drama, phone bans in bars, Group 7, AnthPo’s undercover stunt, and the tech right’s new Phyllis Schlafly
10 things that will get you labeled as a terrorist by the government • + Taliban influencers, H00pify's Airbnb fiasco, statue-maxxing, MrBeast banking, Cava's dating show, Heineken vs AI, ByteDance's chatbot, and an intimacy coordinator film festival
10 things that will get you labeled as a terrorist by the government
+ Taliban influencers, H00pify's Airbnb fiasco, statue-maxxing, MrBeast banking, Cava's dating show, Heineken vs AI, ByteDance's chatbot, and an intimacy coordinator film festival
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
10 things that will get you labeled as a terrorist by the government • + Taliban influencers, H00pify's Airbnb fiasco, statue-maxxing, MrBeast banking, Cava's dating show, Heineken vs AI, ByteDance's chatbot, and an intimacy coordinator film festival
Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For • The backlash that Piker is facing shows the consequences of a world where everyone is constantly being recorded and our internet is built to reward outrage and controversy.
Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For
The backlash that Piker is facing shows the consequences of a world where everyone is constantly being recorded and our internet is built to reward outrage and controversy.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For • The backlash that Piker is facing shows the consequences of a world where everyone is constantly being recorded and our internet is built to reward outrage and controversy.
From A Double Life Sentence to MAGA Influencer Fame • An IRL vibe coding battle, 6-7 meme coin, cosmic pink iPhones, ChatGPT hasbara, meet Lemonade Stand, CougerTok, party gap dating, JD Vance's TikToks and the 'anti-woke’ power grab
From A Double Life Sentence to MAGA Influencer Fame
An IRL vibe coding battle, 6-7 meme coin, cosmic pink iPhones, ChatGPT hasbara, meet Lemonade Stand, CougerTok, party gap dating, JD Vance's TikToks and the 'anti-woke’ power grab
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
From A Double Life Sentence to MAGA Influencer Fame • An IRL vibe coding battle, 6-7 meme coin, cosmic pink iPhones, ChatGPT hasbara, meet Lemonade Stand, CougerTok, party gap dating, JD Vance's TikToks and the 'anti-woke’ power grab
The AI Slop-pocalypse • + Hawk Tuah's Twitch pivot, New Face syndrome, Gen Z divorcés, Sam Altman shoplifting slop, cockroach spies, brain rot pop, Forbes vs a gun violence activist, and how 'I’ve Had It' is going mainstream
The AI Slop-pocalypse
+ Hawk Tuah's Twitch pivot, New Face syndrome, Gen Z divorcés, Sam Altman shoplifting slop, cockroach spies, brain rot pop, Forbes vs a gun violence activist, and how 'I’ve Had It' is going mainstream
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The AI Slop-pocalypse • + Hawk Tuah's Twitch pivot, New Face syndrome, Gen Z divorcés, Sam Altman shoplifting slop, cockroach spies, brain rot pop, Forbes vs a gun violence activist, and how 'I’ve Had It' is going mainstream
Nepal's Gen Z Uprising Is A Bigger Deal Than You Think • + Moflin mania, cozy cardio, MrBeast trapped a man inside a burning house, $30k baby names, Ezra vs Ta-Nehisi, heavy soda, r/twinpeaks slop, frutarians, and Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world
Nepal's Gen Z Uprising Is A Bigger Deal Than You Think
+ Moflin mania, cozy cardio, MrBeast trapped a man inside a burning house, $30k baby names, Ezra vs Ta-Nehisi, heavy soda, r/twinpeaks slop, frutarians, and Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Nepal's Gen Z Uprising Is A Bigger Deal Than You Think • + Moflin mania, cozy cardio, MrBeast trapped a man inside a burning house, $30k baby names, Ezra vs Ta-Nehisi, heavy soda, r/twinpeaks slop, frutarians, and Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world
Influencers Are Doing Free PR For Authoritarian Countries • + AI kids, Nick Fuentes' YouTube return, memecoins come to the stock market, Roblox vs Italian Brainrot, Sit at the Bar September, IG's next era, DARPA's insect robots, sexy Grinch TikTok ornament ads
Influencers Are Doing Free PR For Authoritarian Countries
+ AI kids, Nick Fuentes' YouTube return, memecoins come to the stock market, Roblox vs Italian Brainrot, Sit at the Bar September, IG's next era, DARPA's insect robots, sexy Grinch TikTok ornament ads
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Influencers Are Doing Free PR For Authoritarian Countries • + AI kids, Nick Fuentes' YouTube return, memecoins come to the stock market, Roblox vs Italian Brainrot, Sit at the Bar September, IG's next era, DARPA's insect robots, sexy Grinch TikTok ornament ads
Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk's AI resurrection • + Rapture day blues, Black looksmaxxing, 5120 x 1080 IG videos, Kamala Harris joins Substack, a workslop tsunami, the most prolific anti-5G arsonist, and Michigan tries to criminalize ASMR
Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk's AI resurrection
+ Rapture day blues, Black looksmaxxing, 5120 x 1080 IG videos, Kamala Harris joins Substack, a workslop tsunami, the most prolific anti-5G arsonist, and Michigan tries to criminalize ASMR
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk's AI resurrection • + Rapture day blues, Black looksmaxxing, 5120 x 1080 IG videos, Kamala Harris joins Substack, a workslop tsunami, the most prolific anti-5G arsonist, and Michigan tries to criminalize ASMR
Conservatives Are Doxxing Innocent People Over Charlie Kirk • Right wing influencers are blasting people's names and personal details out to millions before ever verifying their claims.
Conservatives Are Doxxing Innocent People Over Charlie Kirk
Right wing influencers are blasting people's names and personal details out to millions before ever verifying their claims.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Conservatives Are Doxxing Innocent People Over Charlie Kirk • Right wing influencers are blasting people's names and personal details out to millions before ever verifying their claims.
Let's talk about 'political violence' • Political violence has escalated over the past five years, but not in the way politicians are characterizing it.
Let's talk about 'political violence'
Political violence has escalated over the past five years, but not in the way politicians are characterizing it.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Let's talk about 'political violence' • Political violence has escalated over the past five years, but not in the way politicians are characterizing it.