internet culture
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When Discord’s Down, All Hell Breaks Loose
Google’s suite of cloud computing services were hit with some technical difficulties most of the day Saturday that caused connectivity problems on at least one of the services dependent on it: Discord, a chat and voice platform geared towards gamers (don’t worry, it’s back up now).
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OK, So Who Went To All This Trouble Making This Eerily Realistic But Probably Fake Trump Pee Tape?
There’s a Donald Trump pee tape floating around on the internet. It looks real, but it is almost uncontestably not, according to a Thursday report by Slate reporter (and Gizmodo alum) Ashley Feinberg.
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Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real
On a sunny morning in early 2000, Joseph Matheny woke up to find conspiracy theorists camped out on his lawn again. He was making coffee when he noticed a face peering in a ground-floor window of the small, three-story building he rented in Santa Cruz. Past the peeper, there were three other men in their…
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The Hot New Selfie Trend Is A Great Way To Destroy Your Phone
Have you heard about the latest craze to set fire to the internet? No, it’s not Ken Bone’s tomato-coloured sweater, or Donald J. Trump’s “locker room talk”, or the actually flammable Galaxy Note7. This furore is much dumber.