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Topic: Internet Culture (page 2)

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Stress Older Woman

Confessions of a "FailMom"

Lori Barrett
Memoji; Apple Worldwide Developers Conference

Why we love our avatars

Nicole Karlis
Ferce Opossum

How possums became the internet's mascot

Deidre Olsen
Nextdoor Tweets

Everybody hates Nextdoor

Nicole Karlis
Yanny/Laurel

Brain scans uncover Laurel/Yanny mystery

Nicole Karlis
ReSet

YouTuber faces jail time for prank

Rachel Leah
Sister Jean

Rethinking how we talk about the elderly

Nicole Karlis
Pepe the Frog; Warzone

The evolution of meme warfare

Deidre Olsen
Person eating a tide pod

Cynical millennial memes, explained

Deidre Olsen
Detergent Packet Poisonings

Tide Pod challenge fails at blame game

Harry T Dyer - The Conversation
Unmasking OKCupid Users

Is OkCupid requiring real names? Nope

Matthew Sheffield
White Bread

Why "r/NotInteresting" is so interesting

Keith A. Spencer
Dog

The world's only professional dog-rater

Jillian Kestenbaum
PewDiePie

PewDiePie: A real troll's troll

Cristina López G. - Media Matters
PewDiePie

PewDiePie loses support

Taylor Link
Image for Donald Trump Jr. loves far-right internet trolls — and they love him back

the love is mutual

Jared Holt - Media Matters
Frog

From 4chan to Trump

Allee Manning
Image for Don't blame Microsoft or the NSA! If you're running obsolete software, you helped make the

Don't blame Microsoft or NSA!

Matthew Sheffield
PewDiePie Signs Copies Of His New Book "This Book Loves You"

Is PewDiePie a "real" Nazi?

Matthew Sheffield
Image for Big layoffs at Medium: Web publisher says ad-driven online media is a

Big layoffs at Medium

Matthew Sheffield
Sarah Sweeney

I was an AOL teen catfisher

Sarah Sweeney
Milo Yiannopoulos

Why we need trolls

Matthew Rozsa
Robert E. Lee, Donald Trump

We have lost all humanity

Dan Oppenheimer
Hillary Clinton

The low art of Hillary bashing

Brendan Gauthier

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