Internet Culture
Did you know that memes are over 100 years old? It's true, not all internet things are new things. The internet hasn't made us new, it's just morphed and mutated tendencies humanity has always possessed. That said, there is a specific kind of internet culture, you know? Like when we say “‘the internet’ is seeping into the real world," you kind of intuitively know what we mean. Certain viral stars, certain art trends like SCP creepypasta or fan art—all that stuff is internet culture. And internet culture can be positive! It's all about how you use the internet. And for us? Well, as long as y'all whippersnappers keep on surfin' the world wide web, we'll keep covering its weirdo culture.
5 Tips For Talking To Your Parents About The Internet
Here, for your reverse-rearing pleasure, are five tips to help you handle this tricky conversation with your own parents.
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0 The Fate Of 4 Internet 'Celebrities' After Viral Fame
Let's find out what happened to some once-prominent Internet mega-stars.
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- By Luis Prada
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5 Unsettling Sub-Genres of Fan Art Lurking on the Internet
This stuff exists for the Internet's favorite reason: because.
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- By Luis Prada
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4 Ways the Internet Is Creeping into the Real World
The Internet is not going to wait for us to get our heads around its intricacies. It's far too busy wrapping its own tendrils around the real world.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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4 Trends That Have Overstayed Their Internet Welcome
These things show no signs of slowing down, and they must be stopped before they damage the Internet and reality.
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- By Mark Hill
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4 New Words We Need Because of the Internet
These will no doubt become abbreviations and emoticons in about a week.
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- By Cezary Jan Strusiewicz
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5 Terrible Things We Only Know Because of the Internet
If it wasn't for the Internet, you'd happily live your life unaware of all kinds of terrible things. Here are a few of them.
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- By Felix Clay
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4 Positive Trends the Internet Doesn't Get Enough Credit For
I suspect that we might be doing all of these by accident.
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- By Soren Bowie
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3 Despicable Internet Behaviors (That Are Really Your Fault)
Hey, did you hear? Humanity is doomed. Everyone on the Internet is saying so.
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- By Soren Bowie
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The 5 Weirdest Patron Saints of the Internet
When you are online all the time you'll run into certain people and things that seem to be beloved by all and you may not understand why, but they'll have just short of no real world influence at all offline.
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- By Ian Fortey
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The 7 Most Overused Words on the Internet
These words tell us everything we need to know about the commenter and let us skip the post, safe in the knowledge that we're proving our childhood lessons wrong and getting smarter by not reading something.
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- By Luke McKinney
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4 Things You Shouldn't Do With the Internet
The Internet's great. You should use it for lots of things. It's also terrible. You shouldn't use it for the following things.
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- By Daniel O'Brien
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5 Great Ideas That the Internet Has Ruined
I'm going to tell you, unequivocally, what the five worst things on the Internet are. Because I looked them all in the eye and saw a wretched hole filled with human suffering where their soul should have been.
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- By Ian Fortey
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5 Internet Annoyances That Are Way Older Than the Internet
We have a tendency to think that all of the annoyances that came with the Internet are also brand new to humanity. Surprise! They aren't.
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- By Maxwell Yezpitelok, M. Asher Cantrell
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The 4 Worst Times to Be on The Internet
I've spent so much time on the Internet that I can now recognize the worst times of the year to be on it (you probably can too, because it's the day after Thanksgiving, and you're here, reading this silly column).
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- By Daniel O'Brien
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