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There's More To The Dolly Parton Challenge Than A Fun Meme

By De Elizabeth LinkedIn. Facebook. Instagram. Tinder. No, we’re not just naming random apps; we're talking about the latest viral meme, “The Dolly Parton Challenge.” You’ve probably seen it pop up on your newsfeed, as plenty of users and celebrities alike have gotten in on the fun. The premise is pretty straightforward: post four pictures of yourself, each reflecting how yo..

TikTok Has A Ted Bundy Problem

By Abby Lee Hood The world of TikTok is full of clown makeup, catchy dances, and Gen Z humor. Although there’s one trend that’s a little bit different, and darker: Hundreds of teens are role-playing Ted Bundy and other serial killers, along with their victims, for a crowd of millions. For at least a couple of months, users on the social media app have been pretending to put on ..

The 18-Year-Old Scientist Helping Bangalore's Residents Save Its Water

By Emma Sarran Webster “You ever throw a rock in and make foam holes?” Sahithi Pingali asked her friend, because the two stood on the edge of a lake in Bangalore, India. He had not. So Pingali picked up a stone and tossed it into the water, where it broke through one of the several mounds of toxic white foam covering the surface, making a clearing that briefly revealed the otherw..

A Sex Toy Company Is Suing New York City's Subways

you could visualize analogies for droopy penises on subway ads in New York City — including phallic-looking cacti and upset roosters — yet nothing for femme-centered sex toys. That’s why Dame, a sex toy firm founded by two females, is suing New York City’s transit organization for refusing to run its subway ads. Dame says they submitted ads to the MTA in July 2018, and the M..

When YouTube Reactions Stop Being Polite And Start Getting Real

By Elizabeth De Luna Like cats with strings, days at the zoo, and bedroom sing-alongs, reaction videos are about as old as YouTube itself. For the past 10 years, the genre has maintained a relatively consistent look and feel, even because the platform around it evolved into the second-largest site in the world. Right now, change usually be catching up with it. Slowly although surely,..

A Student Used Snapchat To Pose As A 16-Year-Old-Girl On Tinder – And Caught A Predatory Cop

By Lauren Rearick A 20-year-old California college student used an augmented-reality photo effect on Snapchat that adjusts its users's pictures to adhere to more traditionally feminine codes — and in doing so, he took down a predatory policeman trying to engage in sexual activity with someone he knew to be underage. The San Jose Police Department confirmed that Ethan, a college ..

Is This The Beginning Of A Like-Less Instagram?

By Lauren Rearick Showing your Instagram affection through a double-tap could soon be a thing of the past. In recent weeks, Instagram has been testing out a version of its app that hid a photo’s total variety of likes, CNNreports. Users were still have the ability to view their own likes and intelligence on any photographs they had posted, however those numbers were kept private o..

Social Media Has A Hate-Speech Problem — Why Won't Companies Do Something About It?

By Lincoln Anthony Blades The March 15 terrorist attack on both the Al Noor mosque and the Linwood Islamic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand, was the deadliest shooting in the nation's history, an act of white supremacist violence engineered to inflict maximum pain on the Muslim community, and go viral in the process. We know this in part because it was later revealed that, prior ..

ASMR Is Normalizing Consent, One Whisper At A Time

By Abby Lee Hood You’ve determined it’s time for a change — a big one, so you want lavender-colored hair for the upcoming holiday. You hole up in the washroom with your friend and enlist her help, asking her to apply the color and oversee the complete box dye process. Your friend happens to be one of the greatest you have, and she goes above and in back of, bringing a plastic ..

Does Your Social Media Feed Need A Body-Acceptance Revamp?

By Lauren Rearick there's a good chance good that your social media eats now are filled with memes, your friends’ selfies, adorable animals, and everything you love. Yet, keeping close tabs on your best friend’s seemingly picture-perfect spring break or following and also your fave celeb’s photoshoot adventures isn’t routinely as harmless as you think. It can feel like you�..

Taylor Swift Has Ushered in a New Wave of Concert Safety — But Are We Ready For It?

By Yoonj Kim A blonde in a ponytail. Teenaged brunette wearing eyeliner. Latina with glitter on her cheeks. All stared unknowingly into a concealed camera recording their facial statistics as they watched rehearsal videos of a beloved blue-eyed pop star at a concert, their images beamed 3,000 miles away to a Nashville command post to be cross-referenced against a database of known st..

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