When The Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg hired Kevin Williamson – a columnist known for his controversial ideas about abortion (women should be hanged), and for once comparing a black child to a primate – a PR shitstorm of epic proportions ensued. After the backlash, Goldberg claimed he made the hire in […]
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Hashtag Activism: A Timeline
Who knew such a small symbol could make such a big difference? If you didn’t get a bucket of ice-cold water poured down the back of your neck during the summer of 2014, you definitely weren’t doing social media right. The #IceBucketChallenge was one of the most prominent “hashtag activism” […]
Play For a Paycheck
Forget everything your mom told you and go hook up a gaming console – there’s money to be made. There have always been people who consider themselves full-time gamers, but now they can actually play for a paycheck. Streaming yourself playing video games has curiously become an incredibly lucrative business. […]
Potentially Lethal Internet Challenges: A History
Internet culture has always been ridiculous and avant-garde: just look at cryptokitties or “Boaty Mcboatface.” But in 2018, we faced a point of cyber-reckoning when an alarming new trend swept internet communities: the Tide Pod Challenge. Allegedly inspired by a 2015 Onion article, the challenge was simple: eat a tide […]
INFLUENCER OF THE WEEK: #GURLSTALK by ADWOA ABOAH
In 2015, the Ghanaian-American-English model, Adwoa Aboah, came up with an idea: Gurls Talk. #GurlsTalk began as an Instagram account and now includes live events as well as a website which publishes stories, photos and illustrations sent in by girls from all over the world. Aboah describes Gurls Talk as […]