Amelia Tait

#HonestyTest videos, which reward people for being “good,” show a skewed view of who deserves kindness.

Social media users have adopted terms like unalive to avoid platform censorship. But not using the word suicide can stigmatize it.

A growing number of people on the platform claim to have a perceptual condition that lets them smell colors, see music, or taste sounds. But do they really?

They don't have VC funds. They just thanklessly post all the helpful content people really need.

Thanks to the constant content machine, there’s more culture online than anyone knows what to do with. Here’s the most baffling of the internet’s 2021 leftovers.

From Christmas economics to incarceration policy, how well do the various monarchical countries of the Princess Switch series treat their humble citizens?

From vaccinations to electric vehicles and cheese, the second year of the pandemic still had some high points.

The pandemic has spurred an explosion of home cooks selling dubiously-edible, but Instagram-friendly “graze boxes.”

Meet the obsessives creating extensive, multi-hour videos on YouTube examining long defunct Nickelodeon shows.  

From Home Sweet Home Alone to Cruella, prequels and reboots increasingly rely on cheap and clichéd explanations for villains.

Taupe and cream nurseries are in vogue right now. They’re beautifully beige, but some worry they might be bad for babies.

In celebrity interviews and homicide cases, video sleuths are searching for the truth—but what if the signals are all wrong?

Netflix's chaotic and confusing new installment of the salacious docuseries reveals an accidental new genre: true-ish crime.

Hours-long multipart documentaries should be able to tell a whole story. And yet, more and more of them just keep going.

Powered by the Randonautica app, the practice blew up on TikTok and Reddit following last year's lockdowns. Since then, it's left many users disappointed. 

Turkish chef Nusret Gökçe's restaurants serve something different: moments sure to go viral on social media.   

Marvel’s Eternals is just the latest genre film to clumsily use horrific real-world events in an attempt to elevate its narrative.