internet culture

On its ascent to the coveted top spot in app retailer charts, BeReal—the French photo-sharing app launched in 2020—has been heralded because the antidote to social media fakery. Staving off canny staging and slick curation, BeReal gives…

I used to co-run a software firm. My cofounder is Lebanese, so we constructed a group in Beirut with an workplace proper on the Levantine Sea. Nice software program engineers over there, glorious front-end expertise. However Lebanon has…

“It made me feel very cool,” Poisson says of using the app. “Whenever I would travel somewhere like New York City, I always had to post a picture of the window on the plane.” While millennials also grew up with social media, they didn’t…

When the first Marcel the Shell short went viral, it was a bit of an accident. As cocreator Jenny Slate told Seth Meyers this week on Late Night, her then partner Dean Fleischer-Camp showed the stop-motion film they made at a comedy show…

“I think these videos can create narratives about how we should help the deserving poor,” says Yale professor Michael Kraus, a social psychologist who specializes in the study of inequality. “But actually all are deserving, and…

Gabrielle Foster had been a fan of One Direction since she was 11 years old.“We all come from different backgrounds. We all bond over Harry, but we don’t personally know what’s going on in each other’s lives,” she told me. “I just want…