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It's a place where capitalism hasn't corrupted human kindness, stuffed animals are haunted and rusty bottle caps come in packs of 500.

Turns out the names Tolkien came up with for inhabitants of fictional Middle Earth are uncannily similar to the kinds of names scientists designate for pharmaceuticals.

Reddit moderator Gallowboob is stepping away from the site after receiving doxxing and death threats.

From Black Voices to MySpace to Instagram, black creativity has defined social media from the start.

Conspiracy theorists claim — without evidence — that coronavirus death figures have been inflated, the lockdown is unlawful and Bill Gates is somehow responsible for it all.

As the site's popularity booms during our current health crisis, some worry their NSFW content will be purged.

Or: What backlink trading on Google has in common with Washington, DC's unusual legal pot economy.

"It was an all-day game. I was thinking about it almost an obsessive amount."

What happens when America's number one teenage content creators move in under one roof? This is the Hype House, through the keyhole.

Maybe you're not craving alone time; maybe, you're craving social novelty. That's where the most chaotic video platform of all time comes in: enter Chatroulette.

Quarantine has inspired all kinds of people to start posting on the "farmer's market of porn." But what about the actual professionals?

Maybe I'm alone here, but almost two months later, I'm still thinking about a truly haunting tweet from America's favorite unlicensed counselor, Dr. Phil McGraw.

Thanks, Mitch McConnell.

While stuck in quarantine, Mandy Patinkin hilariously posted a clip of himself learning how to post on Twitter. In the video, the "Princess Bride" star debates with his wife Kathryn Grody over the meaning of the acronym GIF.

You might want to see how a show fares over various seasons before investing your time into it. A developer named Benjamin Mizrahi came up with a neat solution. He made a web app that rates episodes across all seasons.

Platforms did their best to remove a video with a harmful claim — but more than 8 million people watched it anyway. Facebook and YouTube explain how it happened.

At 22, he single-handedly put a stop to the worst cyberattack the world had ever seen. Then he was arrested by the FBI. This is his untold story.

After making some critical comments about Teigen and Marie Kondo in an interview, rising star Roman — creator of viral recipes like #thestew and #thecookies, faces her first big backlash.

If you're a fan of "The Office," you can rewatch the entire series right now… as it might have played out in a world with Slack. That is, as long as people don't ruin it the way people tend to do.

"It's so common to see guys try to play with the big boys and fail miserably. Silvercorp just took it to the extreme."

The meme originally had nothing to do with the pandemic, but now it's impossible to separate the two — and the pallbearers seem okay with that.

We studied 10,000 websites and found that their design has become more uniform over time. What does this mean for the future of creative expression on the internet?

To explore the many, many memes of quarantine, we built a Quarantine House meme.

You know that feeling when you're about to engage in some role-playing and the video chat freezes? Yup, it's that feeling.

Turntable.fm predicted the future of the internet, but didn't survive to see it. The nostalgia for it hints at what could be a new normal — or just a passing fad.

The grocery delivery startup added 300,000 workers in eight weeks, but COVID-19 is still overtaking it in more ways than one.

As COVID-19 shut down its schools, Hamilton County, Tennessee, was ideally situated for the switch to virtual learning. At least in theory.

Local communities fought cooperatively against telecom monopoly domination in the 90s. Now rural North Dakotans have better, faster broadband than many US cities.

In all ways, Jon Townsend lives an old-fashioned life. Except, maybe, when he uploads portions of it to his endearing — and instructive — YouTube channel.

A popular joke about entitled white women is now a big pandemic meme.

The pandemic is making clear that rural Americans are left behind. Less clear is how to fix it.

You can tour a museum at 9, take a mixology class at 11 and swoop over Machu Picchu at 3. But do these online versions of "doing stuff" really scratch the itch?

Candidates up and down the ballot are starting to look a lot like influencers as they try to campaign during the novel coronavirus pandemic.

As of Friday, 1.7 million people have joined a Facebook Group called "A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony" — which is exactly what it sounds like.

The controversial sale of the .org web domain – used by charities and non-profit organisations – has been set back after months of deliberation.

Edward is 20 years old and he has never had a job. Unlike most of his peers, he didn't work Saturday shifts in restaurants or grocery stores as a teenager, but also unlike most of his peers, he graduated high school $20,000 richer than when he started.

Will Smith reunited with his "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" co-stars Tatyana Ali, Alfonso Ribeiro, Daphne Maxwell Reid, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell and DJ Jazzy Jeff on the season finale of his Snapchat show "Will From Home," and shared an emotional moment.

With gyms and studios worldwide off-limits, online exercise classes are booming — and one Texan teacher has become the "patron saint of quarantine."

Our five-step guide will help you speed up your Internet connection and eliminate wireless dead zones while you're stuck at home

Imgflip's "This Meme Does Not Exist" takes 48 classic meme formats, from Distracted Boyfriend to Surprised Pikachu, and supplies endless captions that fit each meme's distinctive syntax. It's so much fun.

Why state unemployment websites are overloaded but streaming services like Netflix (which also have spiked in numbers) are totally fine.

Twitter prompt threads can be a deeply tedious affair. But they're not all bad, as Twitter user @tonybonesarelli's thread proves.

The multimillion-dollar lad mag has survived by cultivating a legion of fans who don't want to feel bad about their taste. Now, the founders are trying to grow up — without losing what made them successful.

While the rest of the world has evolved to a place where we can track anything at all times and order anything from anywhere, government has been hopelessly stranded on an island in 1993.

The festival has been canceled due to the coronavirus, but Amazon has made its features, short films and documentaries available to watch for free through May 6th.

My strange foray into "meeting" new people during the lockdown.

Yes, you read that right. And it's actually pretty impressive.

Struggling with the world's, and his own, homophobia, one queer young man searches for intimacy in the world of internet porn.

Ah, these were the good old days.

The millennial doyenne of decluttering is poised to build the next lifestyle empire. But will it spark joy?

You don't need a reason to dress up and have dinner tonight.

For hundreds of thousands of people on TikTok, nothing packs a Xanax-level punch like watching food find its made-in-heaven Tupperware match.

I have ventured into the wilds of Quibi. I've wandered through its six-minute attention traps. I've sampled its daily updates, its serious dramas, its strange, surreal comedies, and its reality shows. But I still can't tell you exactly what Quibi is.

These past few weeks have given us a new form of entertainment: seeing inside, and scrutinizing, celebrity houses on their endless livestreams. So as expected, a remote NFL draft was a comedic treasure trove.

The fringe right is hungry for another junk food conspiracy.

Pop, like all of us, is having a rough (ruff?) time in quarantine.

Turning away from the physical world and toward social media might feel right. But now is the perfect time to let it go.

Believing in online hoaxes can be dangerous now. Here's how we can all help.

I don't know what the hell Chefclub is, but I love it.

Streaming services can never replace physical collections if they favor new content over classics.