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You’ve likely already come across the name: Xiaohongshu, or more commonly known as Red Note, the Chinese social media platform that TikTok users are now flocking to in droves ahead of the app’s potential ban on January 19. In the span of a few days since the Supreme Court began proceedings on whether TikTok’s Chinese ties pose a national security threat, Xiaohongshu skyrocketed to No.

The first Fyre Festival is one of the most well-chronicled sagas of the past decade, a luxury weekend of music and good times with beautiful people (and Blink-182) that ended up being more akin to Survivor for influencers. The fallout led to two documentaries, one prison sentence, and the name Fyre Festival becoming shorthand for any event that over promises and under delivers.

A famous philosopher once said hot takes are like buttholes — everyone has one. In 2023, the New York City-based comedian Kareem Rahma took that concept and ran with it creating SubwayTakes, a wildly popular short-form video series that solicits hot takes from on-the-rise normies and celebrities alike. Now, that show is getting even bigger — and longer — with a new podcast series called SubwayTakes: Uncut, launching with Talkhouse today.

When Tumblr debuted in early 2007, I was a sophomore in high school that desperately wanted to run away to Williamsburg. It was the height of what’s now referred to as indie sleaze, where the alienated alt kids would reblog Cobrasnake’s blown-out party photos of glamorous, half-lucid It Girls.

Tyler Bainbridge and I are sitting outside the New York City TikTok hotspot Fanelli’s on a muggy September afternoon, joking about being play-pretend downtown scenesters taking up the corner of a busy SoHo intersection. It’s actually pretty funny, given the former Facebook software engineer is the main person behind Perfectly Imperfect, the 84,000 subscriber-strong Substack that’s made him a semi-reluctant authority on NYC cool — not that he’s really complaining.

The Guardian this week, Madigan highlighted how Gunn’s swift transformation from a relative unknown to a cultural icon suggests she could have a lucrative career ahead of her.“ … the breaking-neck (see what I did there) speed at which Raygun went from cultural cringe to cultural icon was something to behold,” Madigan noted.“And augurs very well for her future. Because we love, love, love an underdog.”Marketing and public relations expert, Max Markson, told Daily Mail Australia that Gunn already possesses “an enormous brand” and could potentially earn millions through international deals.“Her reputation in Australia isn’t that great, but she is famous across the world,” Markson said.“I don’t think everyone else in other countries is conscious of how Australians feel about her.“I think Australian marketers will be avoiding her for that reason, but there will be somebody in this country who will go for it.”Markson predicts that Gunn will attract offers from global companies, particularly in the sports, food, and technology sectors.“She will get international offers from sports shoe brands, like Adidas or Puma, food companies like McDonald’s or KFC, electric cars like BYD, and she will get a phone company like Telstra or Optus or Vodafone.

After 20 years of hard work, Little John is still having a hard time finding affordable housing in the big city. Like the most young adults, he’s been royally fucked by a combination of stagnant wages, high inflation rates, and rapidly rising rental costs in pricy markets like Shanghai and New York City.

Last week, I dreamed in brat green It involved some projectile vomiting, so I’d rather not share the nitty-gritty details. But I will say that I woke up feeling quite clammy and slightly concerned about whatever was happening inside my subconscious.

Rhett & Link — just announced the ‘Good Mythical Tour,’ which will be the duo’s first in their storied career.From May 28 through June 9, the “Good Mythical Morning” co-hosts will trek all over North America stopping into major markets like Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia along the way.They can’t wait for the live show which includes fan-favorite segments, classic games, music, and mayhem, either.Plus, Executive Producer Stevie Wynne Levine and Mythical Kitchen Chef Josh Scherer will likely make surprise appearances at gigs as well.“We’ve been hosting Good Mythical Morning for 12 years now, but it’s always been in 2D.

TikTok has won its first battle against the state of Montana. A federal judge has granted the video platform’s request for a preliminary injunction that will temporarily block the state’s ban of the app, Variety reports and court documents confirm. Montana Governor Greg Gianforte signed the ban into law in May, claiming it was essential to “protect Montanans’ private data and sensitive personal information from being harvested by the Chinese Communist Party” (TikTok is owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance).

Child stardom is by now an established archetype. The story of Lil Tay is one that both epitomizes the genre’s all-to-common themes — abuse, exploitation, public shaming — and stands out among its many examples because of its sheer absurdity, as well as its cosmic timing (the early days of the online influencer boom). Tay’s journey to viral stardom began in 2018.

Reddit has been hit by a major protest by users protesting the site owner's decision to begin charging third-party app developers for access to its data. It is estimated that over 6,000 subreddits went private on Monday as part of the protest to changes to Reddit's API (Application Programming Interface). These include the likes of r/funny, r/gaming, r/gadgets, and r/todayilearned, all with millions of subscribers each.

Fidelity Investments has valued Twitter at one-third of the price Elon Musk purchased the site for last year, Bloomberg reports. The multinational finance service has continued to mark down the social media platform’s value since Musk finalized his deal to buy it for $44 billion in October.

After DatPiff’s servers crashed in mid March, operators of the beloved mixtape hub mitigated rumors of its demise by tweeting that the site was “still here” and would “still be supplying you with all the mixtapes you love.” Since then, they’ve updated their YouTube channel regularly and their Twitter feed sporadically. But until this week, there were no further updates on the fate of DatPiff.com itself.

After a report detailing Kanye West’s defunct 2024 presidential campaign quoted the Ye as saying he wants to be “left alone” and is currently focusing on Donda Academy and his family, the controversial artist has deactivated his Instagram account. Before going through with it, though, he shared a screenshot of the deactivation page confirmation to his stories.

Popular hip-hop media personality DJ Akademiks has signed an exclusive streaming deal with Rumble, a site that brands itself as “immune to cancel culture”; hosts right-wing figures such as Dinesh D’Souza, Dan Bongino, and Sean Hannity, as well as the Donald Trump-owned platform Truth Social; and is funded in part by tech billionaire Peter Thiel and Republican Ohio senator J.D. Vance.

A host of Scots celebrities and footballers are set to 'strip' in aid of a Hamilton teenager who lost his leg to cancer.