#internet culture

Kane Parsons’ viral Backrooms project is becoming a feature film for A24, turning a web-born horror myth into a studio-backed debut.

The music tracking platform says profiles, scrobbles, subscriptions, and privacy settings will remain intact as it begins operating independently again.

Before vaccines, some parents intentionally exposed children to chickenpox to avoid worse infections later in life. That mindset has not entirely disappeared, even after vaccination changed the risk equation.

A routine daily puzzle post is a reminder that Wordle remains a durable cultural habit years after its breakout success, with subscription products and fan behavior helping keep it in circulation.

The repeatedly revived internet brand is back with a narrower ambition: monitoring what 1,000 selected voices in AI are reading and discussing, then ranking the stories that appear to matter most.

Stephen Colbert and Barack Obama revisited their long-running wastepaper basketball bit during a visit to the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, complete with talk, tension, and a trophy.

A new preprint from researchers at Imperial College London, Stanford University, and the Internet Archive estimates that about 35 percent of new websites are AI-generated or AI-assisted.

The addition of Jack Karlson’s ‘democracy manifest’ clip to Australia’s national archive marks a striking example of internet-era folklore entering official cultural memory.