Russian embassy warns of extremism with video game screengrab
In a somewhat head-scratching move that has many Twitter users pointing and laughing, an official Russian Twitter account has offered up a screenshot from a classic strategy game as evidence of...
View ArticleStop Trump PAC declare themselves 'proud cucks'
As very successful fake pundit Carl Diggler foretold, it was only a matter of time before some official voice of the #NeverTrump movement naïvely embraced the term "cuck." Well, Internet, that blessed...
View Article'Smart Coffin' proves that even death won't keep us off the Internet
While you no doubt harbor you own beliefs on the afterlife, there's one thing that's for certain: The Internet has taken over our lives so completely that it'll probably still burrow itself into...
View ArticleWhat makes 'SpongeBob SquarePants' the most memeable cartoon?
The memeification of our favorite childhood cartoons has become a huge part of Internet culture. Dexter’s Laboratory, Hey Arnold!, Rugrats, The Magic School Bus, The Powerpuff Girls—these shows are...
View ArticleBTS premieres K-pop's first ever emoji on Twitter
K-pop boy band BTS continues to score big internationally, this time becoming the first ever K-pop group to land a custom Twitteremoji.The group released its new track, "Fire," last week, and ever...
View ArticleMan arrested for singing Beyoncé too loudly in mall
Beyoncé’s power over us common people is undeniable. Sure, there are some notable exceptions—like the dude who read a book during her recent concert in North Carolina. But for the most part, when...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the rise of #AltRightPoetry
If it has often seemed to you that the Donald Trump phenomenon is less about ideology than some ineffable mix of betrayal, loss, fear, insecurity, and anger, you're not alone. It's hard getting a...
View ArticleBarack Obama tweets the number 69, and Twitter users go wild
A subset of Internet users (and boys between the ages of 13 and, oh, 45) love the number 69. You probably already know why, and if not, Rob Gronkowski can probably explain it to you.But lately, it's...
View ArticleL.A. comedian gets turned down for a date, proceeds to insult the woman he...
Mike Faverman appeared to be having quite the laugh fest on Friday.Facing allegations that he had sent a woman inflammatory messages on Facebook, the comedian took to Twitter to retweet concerns and...
View ArticleCBS passed on the modern-day Nancy Drew show because it 'skewed too...
'tis the season for upfronts and cancellations. What that means is that major television networks are canceling programming to make way for new shows.CBS picked up eight new series this go round,...
View ArticleThis good 'Uptown Funk' Twitter bot gonna give it to ya
Brilliant net artist Neil Cicierega is known for inventing 'animutations,' creating the Potter Puppet Pals, and dropping the :fire emoji: bizarro mixtape Mouth Sounds. His latest creation is a...
View ArticleDonald Trump couldn't remember his ex-girlfriend's name
Saturday morning, the New York Times published a piece titled ""Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private." It started with the story of Rowanne Brewer Lane, one of Trump's...
View ArticleStupid app orders food to random location, then Ubers you there to pick it up
Why order food directly to your home (or take a car to a restaurant) when you can have the food delivered to a random location, then Uber there to meet the delivery guy? And don't say "logic" or...
View ArticleWitches are feeling the Bern online
The witches are gathering—in the name of magical, earth-loving candidate Bernie Sanders. Over the weekend, a group of Wiccans in Portland held a ritual for the “amplification of positive energy of...
View ArticleSurge vs. Mountain Dew is the soda war you've been waiting for
In a marketing move prompted by a specific subset of caffeine addicts, Coca-Cola is bringing back a '90s-era soft drink called Surge in parts of the United States. It's not Josta... but hooray, I...
View ArticleTwitter reportedly plans to stop counting links and photos in 140-character...
You may soon have more space to tweet. Twitter will stop counting links and photos in the 140-character limit, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources.Links currently take up 23 characters, and...
View Article#ThingsIYellWhenICum is trending on Twitter because 2016 rules
Twitter started out in 2006 as a way for tech dweebs to find each other at the tech-dweeb segment of the South by Southwest festival, but by 2014 it had become a large public company with a loftier...
View ArticleGamers think 'vagina bones' exist—and want them to stop getting censored
It's an outdated cliché that video game nerds know absolutely nothing about the female anatomy (because they've never seen a woman naked). It's a lame joke rooted in decades-old jocks vs. nerds...
View ArticleViral dancing Uber driver isn't really an Uber driver, but so what?
Tweets go viral every day, but this one was a peculiar case. Posted by user @mesmmia on Monday, the video shows a dude losing himself to dance, soundtracked by Dae Dae’s “Wat U Mean.”Although the...
View ArticleWorld's greatest Magic player becomes anime idol girl in Japanese meme
Jon Finkel is a god among Magic nerds. He's in the Magic: The Gathering hall of fame, he's won Pro Tours and world championships, and he was the subject of the 2005 biography Jonny Magic and the Card...
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