A new study found that song lyrics are now angrier, more repetitive, and vain. Consensus wavers,…
Author: Jason Parham
Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ Meets Online Fandom at the Crossroads
The release of Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter exposes the tenor of online fandom today—and the fiction of…
The Filmmaker Who Says AI Is Reparations
Before he used AI tools to make his movies, Willonius Hatcher couldn’t get noticed. Now his…
TikTok Is So 2004
Thanks, millennials.
Bluesky’s Future Is Social Media’s Past
The X competitor is now open to the public—but until the platform establishes an identity, it…
Polyamory Has Entered the Chat
Mainstream awareness of polyamorous relationships is becoming more widespread. On dating apps, making connections is about…
Black Twitter Remains Unbothered in Elon Musk’s X
Many Black users who stayed amid the chaos and change on the platform, now named X,…
What SoundCloud Created Can Never Die
News broke this week that SoundCloud was looking to be bought. Even in the hands of…
The Year the Millennial Internet Died
From Tumblr to Gawker, the sites and voices that defined the 2010s are gone or changed.…
Tierra Whack Doesn’t Want Her Creativity Boxed In
The rap star’s success is fueled by the fact that she’s constantly evolving and challenging the…