August 2022 Culture Articles
- Former crypto CEO faces potential 40,000-year sentence in Turkish jail
- Twitter mercilessly mocked her peach comic. Now she's speaking out.
- How the internet turned dadcore staple, ‘fish fear me,’ into viral fashion
- Crypto.com accidentally sent a woman $7.2 million instead of $68
- FTC sues data broker for selling sensitive location data
- NFT trading on OpenSea has basically fallen off a cliff
- The Department of Justice is ready to serve Apple a hefty antitrust lawsuit
- How (and why) I bent the rules to raise a gay Tamagotchi
- This tweet conflating student loan debt with abortion rights gave me the spins
- This ‘pay-to-spawn’ NFT shooter rewards you with crypto for kills
- How one TikToker convinced folks he was an AI-generated character
- QAnon is thriving on Truth Social for some reason
- For farmer Dave Brandt, being a meme is honest work
- California looks to ban gas vehicle sales by 2035
- The utterly delightful site dedicated to classifying plastic bread tags
- Hackers are being incentivized with worthless NFT to return stolen funds
- Another NFT venture disappeared hours after launch, this time with $815K
- Snap's Illinois privacy lawsuit settlement could net residents some cash
- The Eve 6 Guy's letter of recommendation: therapy
- Phew, Capitol Records has already been bullied out of deal with ‘AI rapper’
- Former Twitter security chief alleges rampant security negligence
- Are Syrian refugees begging on TikTok Live real or fake?
- Oracle hit with class-action privacy lawsuit as TikTok data review begins
- The women of DentureTok are fighting stigma — and creepy fetishists
- Internet-famous erotica writer pens new book about sentient lesbian em-dash
- Coffee geniuses use lasers to make cold brew in just three minutes
- Reddit's collectible avatar experiment falls victim to NFT fatigue
- Elon Musk revives fake Manchester United crypto token with one bad tweet
- Schizophrenic influencers feel abandoned by TikTok
- The internet is losing its mind over the U.S.A. Mullet Championship kids
- The NFL is getting even cozier with crypto companies
- Meta just keeps giving us more reasons to scoff at its metaverse
- The Coinbase insider trading hole may run deeper than we thought
- TikTok bans paid political influencer posts leading up to midterm elections
- Celsius is an even bigger dumpster fire than we thought
- Martin Shkreli claims porn virus hack cost him $450K in crypto tokens
- Tickle fetishists say their kink is no laughing matter
- Amazon claims FTC is 'harassing' executives like Bezos and Jassy
- 'I thought my life was over': Male sextortion victims speak out
- YouTube coin-pusher videos are huge. But what's real and what's fake?
- A long-running Wikipedia hoax and the problem of circular reporting
- Amazon’s Ring Nation reality show begs you to love mass surveillance
- A blockchain company stiffed one of the biggest soccer clubs in the world
- Influencers earn big bucks for shilling shady crypto projects, report finds
- The guy who threw a plushy toy at Lady Gaga explains himself
- Now Spotify wants to sell you concert tickets
- Crypto exchange announces fund freeze with teary anime GIF
- Mark Cuban, investor in metaverse real estate, says digital land is 'dumb'
- HitPiece, a music NFT site once decried as 'a scam,' is relaunching
- Ad watchdog puts celebs on notice for hawking misleading NFT collections
- Permashifters want out of this reality for good
- Shirts That Go Hard's creator is now going a little less hard
- Virgin Galactic's space tourism flights won't start for at least a year
- Visa and Mastercard pause Pornhub advertising buys over child porn concerns
- Below deck with the cruise ship workers of TikTok
- Meta celebrates unholy Coinbase union with NFT of baby Zuck
- Pokémon's Fidough is the soggy little bread beagle we deserve
- Heartbroken? TikTok breakup influencers are here to help.
- All 50 attorneys general join forces to fight robocall theft
- Crypto CEO steps down after bad Bitcoin bet to... focus on Bitcoin
- Pearson plans NFT textbooks for resale profit extortion
- Meet the Bored Ape Yacht Club founders in their first video interview
- Meta illegally shared health info for targeted ads, lawsuit alleges
- Amazon's carbon footprint worsened last year despite climate initiatives
- Meet the volunteers fighting the most vile misogyny on Reddit
