A clip from Werner Herzog’s 2007 documentary Encounters at the End of the World went viral on TikTok at the beginning of 2026, depicting the doomed fate of a strangely stubborn penguin.
TikTok has been glitching for US users since Sunday, and TikTok’s new US owners have finally confirmed the cause: a power ...
Independent media monitors from Poynter and elsewhere say the administration used AI or manipulated imagery at least 14 times ...
It's random noise to adults but social shorthand for Gen Alpha. Before blaming them, the author argues, look at the culture ...
Short-form video is dominant on social media, and so many of us are constantly scrolling as our algorithm feeds us entertaining clips. So is it causing “brain rot?” This internet slang term has been ...
A few months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok when I came across a video that stopped me in my tracks. It starred an animated frog, dressed in a wizard hat, robe, and pink nail polish, superimposed ...
If you spend a decent amount of time online, you've probably heard of brainrot. But you'd be forgiven if it's unclear, really, what that is. The first thing to understand is that it's everywhere — and ...
(CNN) — You grab your phone and in that first swipe, you see someone traveling the world. Why aren’t you on vacation? Swipe again, and someone is living off the grid. Wow, shouldn’t you get rid of ...
The mechanisms that keep you mindlessly scrolling may be similar to those behind addictions such as drug and alcohol use or gambling The mechanisms that keep you mindlessly scrolling may be similar to ...