Forget TikTok and Instagram, Gen Z is on Noplace And it looks like Myspace cranked up to 11. Creative Bloq · Jul 6, 2024
Kate Nash looks back: ‘I trusted the wrong people with my money and had to move back in with my parents; 15 female wrestlers saved me ...’ The musician and actor on living with OCD, having heart surgery, and surviving the tornado of the past 12 years The Guardian - UK · Jun 22, 2024
Charli XCX: ‘Labels are desperate for artists to be liked, otherwise you’re bad, evil and wrong’ Straddling the underground and the mainstream, the pop star long felt like an outsider. She talks about finding her crowd, her ‘blunt’ new album, and complicated female friendships The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2024
“Whale Tail”: 40 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day Trends come and go, leaving us cringing at our old photos sporting frosted tips or grinning in a room decked out with Beanie Babies. The post “Whale Tail”: 40 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day first appeared on Bored Panda. Bored Panda · May 10, 2024
How the porn bots took over Twitter Twitter has long had a bot problem, but since moderation on the platform was gutted and paid users were given "prioritization" in replies, the landscape has changed. WEKU · Mar 7, 2024
Reexamining the 'upskirt decade' and the public ridicule of female pop stars The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye. WEKU · Feb 8, 2024
Dìdi review – a tender, specific rendering of adolescence on the early internet Sundance film festival: Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical tale of an Asian American teen’s life played out online in 2008 is moving and detailed The Guardian - US · Jan 26, 2024
From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay' If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In fact, there has been a whole lot of action in the last 12 months. WEKU · Jan 4, 2024
Why Elon Musk is obsessed with casting X as the most 'authentic' social media platform With X, formerly known as Twitter, hitting the one-year anniversary of Elon Musk’s US$44 billion takeover of the social media platform, it can feel disorienting to try to make sense of all that’s gone down. The Conversation · Oct 27, 2023
Myspace documentary to follow the rise and fall of the Y2K social media platform Myspace was the world’s largest social network site until 2009 Evening Standard · Oct 18, 2023
"We thought it was funny, and then there were articles in The Guardian and The New York Times. It was on Fox News!". We interviewed Attack Attack!, the band behind that insane 2008 MySpace 'crabcore' trend When Attack Attack! filmed a video for their song Stick Stickly, a certain crustacean-aping movement went instantly viral Metal Hammer · Aug 28, 2023
Myspace Seems To Be Making A Comeback W/ This New App So Hope You’re Ready To Ruin Friendships Yes, there's a Top 8. Pedestrian.tv · Aug 13, 2023
MySpace turns 20: 5 things we still miss in the age of Twitter's meltdown MySpace was launched exactly 20 years ago today – here are the main things we miss about the pre-Facebook beast of social networks. TechRadar · Aug 1, 2023
MSN Messenger needs to return in Windows 12 to take on WhatsApp and iMessage With many using WhatsApp, Telegram, and more, it’s high time for one of the best messaging apps to return for Windows 12. TechRadar · Jul 16, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Jul 6, 2023 Threads review: Twitter without the rough edges or news Site has potential to suck the remaining life – and advertising revenue – out of Musk’s struggling network
Metal Hammer · Jun 28, 2023 "Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon, Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto GMOs": Fall Out Boy update Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire, revisit 34 years of history and pop culture Fall Out Boy make up their own new lyrics to Billy Joel's 1989 hit We Didn't Start The Fire, reference everything from Kurt Cobain and Pokemon, to Donald Trump and Elon Musk
TechRadar · Jun 14, 2023 Instagram's new music-sharing status feels like the return of MySpace Share your favorite musical artists on Instagram's Notes
Metal Hammer · May 12, 2023 "It's all Steve Harris's fault!": Everything you need to know about Germany's Eurovision entry Lord Of The Lost They've met the King of England, supported Iron Maiden and tried to send butt-plugs to the Pope: meet Germany's 2023 Eurovision contestants Lord Of The Lost
Al Jazeera · May 9, 2023 Facebook has 3 billion users, but younger users quitting platform More than a third of the world’s population is on Facebook but it still finds itself in a battle for relevancy.
Chicago Sun-Times · May 9, 2023 Facebook, nearing 20, has 3 billion users. Many of them are old. But it says it isn’t dead or just for “old people,” as critics have said for years. The social media platform, born before the iPhone, is approaching two decades in existence.
The Independent UK · May 8, 2023 Facebook has 3 billion users. Many of them are old. Facebook says it is not dead
WEKU · Apr 12, 2023 Why can't Twitter and TikTok be easily replaced? Something called 'network effects' The two popular social media services have amassed such an entrenched community of users that displacing the platforms is no small feat. Experts say it might not stay that way forever.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 16, 2023 Best podcasts of the week: The man who robbed 12 banks to pay for IVF, in his own words In this week’s newsletter: Hear the whole story of how a British man turned bank robber looted a dozen San Diego banks in Time with Mr Reed. Plus: five of the best podcasts for indie music fans
The Conversation · Jan 26, 2023 What happens to our data when we no longer use a social media network or publishing platform? The internet plays a central role in our lives. I — and many others my age — grew up alongside the development of social media and content platforms.
Wales Online · Jan 11, 2023 Couple spent £30k keeping love alive while 7,000 miles apart - now they're wed and trying for baby The two spent a fortune of flights and visas to bridge the gap between their homes in Cardiff and Hawaii