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The Backrooms: how Kane Parsons turned creepypasta into cinema

When a meme about architectural dead space went viral as lockdown bit, Kane Parsons knew exactly what to do: here, the teenage YouTube star turned A24 prodigy takes us down to The Backrooms, his nightmare vision of a ‘no-clipped’ world without end

Film & TV

Mar 07, 2024

Jack Mills

Music

Everyone Knows That: how the internet became obsessed with lostwave

On Reddit, internet sleuths are desperately searching for the artist behind a mysterious 80s-sounding track, ‘Everyone Knows That’ – the latest in a long line of ‘lostwave’ recordings

Music

Feb 27, 2024

Laura Holliday

Life & Culture

Cryptozoology: Inside the online communities hunting for strange creatures

Social media is abuzz with stories of urban legends such as Bigfoot and Moth Man – but what about these cryptid sightings feels so relevant now?

Life & Culture

Sep 20, 2023

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Beauty

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Why so many men are preaching the spirituality of semen retention

Redditors are swearing off ejaculation and describing myriad spiritual and physical benefits – but how credible are these claims?

Beauty

Jun 22, 2023

Megan Wallace

Life & Culture

Why are thousands of Reddit communities going dark?

Nearly 3,500 subreddits are taking part in a blackout in protest against controversial new changes on the platform

Life & Culture

Jun 12, 2023

Serena Smith

Life & Culture

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Why you so obsessed? The online safe space for the infatuated

On r/limerence, members gather to share advice on how to manage their overwhelming feelings of obsessive longing – but is it actually helpful?

Life & Culture

Jul 12, 2022

Laura Holliday

Life & Culture

Are you an empath or a deluded narcissist?

An investigation into the internet’s mass empath awakening

Life & Culture

Feb 15, 2022

Charlotte Colombo

Film & TV

Drag Race fans share conspiracy theory that RuPaul isn’t really Down Under

Art Simone has squashed rumours that Ru is green-screened onto set, but the internet remains unconvinced

Film & TV

May 13, 2021

Thom Waite

Science & Tech

Inside the uncanny world of #liminalspaces TikTok

A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next’, and it’s inspiring a strain of eerie TikToks that conjure feelings of nostalgia, lostness, and uncertainty

Science & Tech

Apr 14, 2021

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Beauty