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June 3, 2013
Breakup Songs: Why is Adam Levine a Hero Where Taylor Swift is a Punchline?
The cultural appraisal of Taylor Swift is simple. She is a country-laced pop-star who dates a lot of famous people, and sings a lot of songs about her exes. This isn't untrue -- she admitted it herself when I saw her play a few weeks ago. It's become the narrative. Taylor has taken thinly-veiled sho ... More >>
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October 18, 2012
The BuzzFeed Lawsuit, Or, What The Hell Are We Gonna Do With Pictures in the Digital Age?
In the Age of Too Much Information, an infinite stream of photos flood the blogs, the news sites, the Facebooks, the meme world, Google Image Search and wherever other nook of the Interwebs. Sometimes they are credited for and sometimes they are not; the whole mantra 'give credit where credit is due ... More >>
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October 17, 2012
Hackers Evolve in We Are Legion
Lulz grow up
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September 4, 2012
Nicki Minaj Is Probably Not Voting For Mitt Romney
After a year in which her rep as a legitimate rap artist has been dented by an album that split its time between dense rhymes and enormous, danceable beats, America has suddenly decided to take Nicki Minaj seriously. And all it took was her bigging up rich white dude Mitt Romney on a verse over G.O. ... More >>
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July 1, 2012
The Leap Second Will Destroy Your Social Media
And we were scared of a measly heat wave.At midnight Saturday, while the ConEd officials were facing off against its workers, the Earth's timekeepers (they exist!) held back the world's atomic time for exactly one second to keep it in line with the planet's rotation. The Network TIme ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
"Live": Turntable.fm Goes From Zero To Woodstock '99 At #VIPFest
Hipster Runoff, Gorilla vs. Bear, Diplo Turntable.fm Monday, June 27 Better than: Listening to your friends DJ on turntable.fm. Turntable.fm is a newish "social DJing" site that basically brings the chat-room concept to the world of online radio stations. DJs can congregate in rooms and ad ... More >>
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June 17, 2011
Lulz Security Hackers Statement Actually Makes Some Sad, Nihilistic and Scary Sense
The hot new amorphous group of internet hackers call themselves Lulz Security -- as in, we do it only for the lulz (a.k.a. laughs) -- and have already positioned themselves against the reigning mischief-making internet kings at Anonymous and 4chan, which likely beget LulzSec, at least in atti ... More >>
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May 21, 2011
New Dating Opportunity For Reclusive Weirdos!
The world of online dating is full of misleading profiles. It's a huge cliche, really. Remember what happened last week with the OkCupid lonelyhearts 4chan tried to prank? Anyway, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. A new dating website called "Cloud Girlfriend" casts off any pretense of realism ... More >>
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May 14, 2011
4Chan "Forever Alone" OkCupid Prank Didn't Go Exactly As Planned
Yesterday, the lonely dudes of 4chan enacted their plan to prank the lonely dudes of OkCupid. The trolls had set up fake OkCupid accounts depicting cute single women, with which they'd attempted to lure "forever alone" guys on the dating site to Times Square, where they would all collectively ... More >>
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May 12, 2011
4chan Pranking Lonely Men on OkCupid, Luring Them to Times Square
The wild Internet message board 4chan, known for originating almost all memes and spawning the hacker/activist collective Anonymous, is plotting a prank on some unfortunately lonely fellows using OkCupid. The point, if you could call it that, is to create an "involuntary flash mob," in which ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
Did Tumblr and 4chan Crash Each Other Again?
Just like last November, the blogging platform Tumblr and the anarchic message board 4chan seem to have taken one another offline this afternoon. Both sites look like they've suffered from some sort of server meltdowns, possibly as a result of a DDos attacks, which bring down websites by send ... More >>
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April 26, 2011
Donald Trump Is Trolling Barack Obama So Hard Right Now
Donald Trump is the currently the country's biggest troll. According to Wikipedia, a reliable source for things like this, a troll "is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the pri ... More >>
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March 21, 2011
Anonymous Exposed: Hacker Group Infiltrated, Chat Logs Leaked
Late last week Gawker posted a story outing correspondence between users thought to be "leadership" members of the internet hacker and activist group Anonymous, one previously referred to in the press as non-hierarchical. In the chat logs, a clear chief can be seen giving orders to his fellow ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Gabriel Snyder to The Atlantic Wire: On Growing Up an Aggregator
Gabriel Snyder, who was fired by Nick Denton as the editor-in-chief of Gawker in February 2010, will be joining The Atlantic as the editor of the magazine's Atlantic Wire aggregation website, according to an Observer report today. Snyder will replace Ben Carlson, who left for a job at Rupert ... More >>
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January 23, 2011
Encyclopedia Dramatica is Gone: What Happened? (UPDATE)
Encyclopedia Dramatica, the Wikipedia-esque site associated with Internet pranksters Anonymous, seems to be gone. The Twitter and Facebook pages of E.D. suggest that it's over for good. Where did it go? And why is it gone?
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December 27, 2010
92-Year-Old Gramps Becomes New Star of the Internet
Via RedditThe original imageThis weekend a 92-year-old man became a meme when his grandson posted his picture to web-forum Reddit. After viewing some of the photoshop work on the site, he told his grandson he wanted to "see what those young whippersnappers can do to my pic." Over 500 comments ... More >>
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December 19, 2010
The Dangers of Going Viral: Kidney Donor Attacked by Reddit For Plugging Charity
In the span of one week, a user of the highly influential social news website Reddit, a man who goes by the internet handle BadgerMatt, experienced the extreme highs and lows of going viral. At a moment when the internet's nerdiest, and often ugliest, underbelly is gaining mainstream attentio ... More >>
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December 12, 2010
Gawker Media Admits Massive Hack of Private User Information (UPDATED)
Yesterday, we cataloged a series of strange tweets from Gawker Media' tech site Gizmodo, claiming to be from the amorphous, loosely 4chan-affiliated hacker group Anonymous. In the messages, the hacker claimed to have stolen 1.5 million email addresses and passwords from three Gawker Media sit ... More >>
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December 12, 2010
Gawker Hacked by Gnosis, Site in Chaos (UPDATED)
A group calling themselves Gnosis have posted a torrent, which they claim includes all of Gawker Media's source code, along with the previously threatened list of commenter names, email addresses and passwords on The Pirate Bay. The torrent of information currently has zero "seeders," making ... More >>
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December 11, 2010
Anonymous Hacks Gawker Media Properties in Support of WikiLeaks?
At 3:29 p.m. on Saturday, Gawker posted a one-line link to President Obama calling WikiLeaks "deplorable." Minutes later, someone purporting to be from the 4chan-affiliated hacker group Anonymous started tweeting from the Twitter account of Gawker Media's tech site Gizmodo, claiming to have s ... More >>
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December 10, 2010
The 114 Most Important Lessons I've Learned at The Village Voice (Or: "2010, The Year I Ruined Your Media Outlet")
After a 285-day stint, I am abdicating my post here at The Village Voice. I'm going to work for Esquire.com, so I may -- as one commenter noted -- continue my work as a "a twentysomething angel of death." Yet, while I was here, I learned some very important things, and had some very memorable mom ... More >>
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November 14, 2010
4chan vs. Tumblr: Why a Message Board Beefing With a Blogging Platform is Actually a Little Terrifying
Things that nerds call news [dot] Tumblr [dot] com: the anarchic wing of the 4chan message board, known as /b/, is angry at the micro-blogging service Tumblr, which is known for book deals and as the weapon of choice for New York City media losers and wannabes. What often goes unsaid about Tu ... More >>
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September 3, 2010
How Did 4Chan and Gawker Get Chris Hansen "Arrested" for Child Molestation?
Chris Hansen -- the host of NBC's infamous child sex scandal exploitation show To Catch A Predator -- was not arrested for child molestation. Yet "chris hansen arrested for child molestation" is a "volcanic"-level trending Google search, currently ranked in the top spot. How did this happen a ... More >>
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September 2, 2010
The Sweeter Side of 4Chan: Sending 90 Year-Old War Vet William J. Lashua a Birthday Card
4Chan, if you aren't already familiar, is a series of anonymous message boards. The most infamous of the 4Chan boards is the notorious "/b" -- commonly known in tech circles as "the a**hole of the internet" -- the members of whom are known to be relentless, often dangerous pranksters. Reminde ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Ben Huh of "Cheezburgur" Fame Offers to Take Reddit Off of Conde Nast's Marijuana-Hating Hands
Earlier today, it started breaking that Reddit -- the user-controlled web content aggregator recently purchased by Condé Nast, which has now been accurately described as "their most visable web property" -- wasn't allowed to run "Yes On Prop 19" ads supporting pro-legalization that Facebook ... More >>
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July 19, 2010
Breaking: Gawker is Being Attacked by 4Chan
Our weekend editor Joe Coscarelli wrote on Saturday about Gawker writer Adrian Chen going head-to-head with a pointedly dangerous and particularly insane subset of users from message board 4Chan called /B over a smear campaign they conducted on an 11 year-old girl. "They're petty and disgusti ... More >>
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July 17, 2010
Is Gawker Trying To Get Attacked By 4Chan's /b/ Board? Operation: Gawker Fawker!
It's a spectacularly slow Saturday. The latest Mel Gibson tape came out well over 24 hours ago. Even the oil took the day off. But as Rupert Murdoch taught us yesterday, every day is equally important, especially when it comes to running a media empire. Just ask Gawker staff writer Adrian Che ... More >>
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July 11, 2010
Spain Wins World Cup; Paul the Psychic Octopus Really Wins World Cup
Spain won its first ever World Cup championship on Sunday afternoon, defeating the Netherlands 1-0 on the strength of a goal by Andrés Iniesta in the 116th minute. Details at ESPN.com. More importantly, Paul, Germany's psychic octopus, predicted 8 out of 8 games correctly.
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April 24, 2010
"Everybody Draw Muhammad Day!" Coming Soon to an Internet Near You
Earlier this week, everyone's favorite eternal teenage antagonists, South Park, spat in the face of Islamic religious law by depicting the Prophet Muhammad... in a bear costume. Comedy Central went weak and censored the episode with bleeps and image blocks after threats from a Muslim group callin ... More >>

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