Internet Culture Archives

Internet Culture

Tor Project continues technical collaboration with Mullvad but pauses co-Branding

The Tor Project announced recently that it is not terminating its relationship with Mullvad. However, the company is now setting clear boundaries, including a pause on proactive co-branding. This...

Oct 13, 2026 2 Min Read

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo built the anti-Meta glasses, and they’re gloriously dumb

While Meta, Apple, and every other big tech company are busy convincing us that we need cameras and AI shoved directly onto our faces, DuckDuckGo decided to join the smart...

Jul 31, 2026 1 Min Read

How Reddit trolls tricked DuckDuckGo’s AI into falling for a Trump rabies hoax

DuckDuckGo’s AI search tool is telling users that Donald Trump died of rabies in early June. The chatbot also claims Vice President JD Vance died from the same...

Jun 26, 2026 2 Min Read

Apple

PSA: That viral iPhone storage trick everyone’s sharing could ruin Screen Time and more – here’s why you should skip it

A viral post has been doing the rounds on X over the past few hours after a user claimed it freed several gigabytes in minutes. Sounds too good to be...

May 27, 2026 2 Min Read

Apple

Apple's MLS game broadcast sparks debate: Is it really shot on iPhone?

The entire Major League Soccer (MLS) game was shot with the iPhone 17 Pro Max recently, but not everyone is equally impressed. Apple officially posted on its Newsroom that Apple...

May 27, 2026 2 Min Read

Bugs and Issues

How a broken Amber Alert link triggered a viral virus scare

A simple link truncation error recently sparked malware fears across SoCal. It led citizens to believe their devices had been hacked or the government had been compromised. Fortunately, neither scenario...

May 26, 2026 2 Min Read

Apps

Has Spotify’s disco ball logo unintentionally started a trend? Meet ‘Discomorphism’

Spotify swapped its familiar green circle app icon for a glittering disco ball recently. The mirrored green sphere carries the usual three black lines and marks the company’s 20th...

May 18, 2026 2 Min Read

Internet Culture

A massive piracy crackdown is about to break the global webtoon community

South Korea’s new anti-piracy system takes effect today, and it could blow a hole in the global webtoon scene almost immediately. The government says the tougher blocking regime...

May 11, 2026 2 Min Read

Internet Culture

Anime piracy site AnimeKai goes offline after reported data center issue

AnimeKai, an anime piracy website, appears to have shut down. If you open the website, a message from a developer reads “Sorry, our data center has been burned…...

May 10, 2026 1 Min Read

Apps

Want a pink timeline? Here’s how to use X's trending accent color feature

X users are currently going viral for turning their timelines pink. A post by user @xenvuen showing off a custom pink interface racked up over 260,000 views in just...

May 06, 2026 1 Min Read

Internet Culture

X to deny revenue to MrBeast this payout cycle over giveaway engagement bait?

Popular YouTuber MrBeast posted a provocative giveaway on X, and it was clearly designed to bait likes and farm engagement. The post read “If this tweet has exactly 1...

May 02, 2026 1 Min Read

Internet Culture

UK artist claims arrest over her own fictional anime artwork under 2009 child protection law

Update (May 02, 2026 – 05:15PM IST): A reader who is allegedly familiar with the situation reached out to me on X, claiming that the Reddit post is a...

May 01, 2026 3 Min Read

Apps

Someone uploaded 45 hours of 'Family Guy' to YouTube (and it's still up)

Right now, there are massive 45-hour chunks of unedited Family Guy episodes sitting in plain sight on YouTube. Instead of the usual zoomed-in, sped-up clips designed to...

Apr 30, 2026 1 Min Read

Apple

Apple is leaning all the way into the iPhone 17 Pro sticker craze now

Apple has officially joined the fun. In a fresh ad posted to its South Korean YouTube channel, the company shows the iPhone 17 Pro getting absolutely covered in stickers right...

Apr 17, 2026 1 Min Read

Apple

Apple debunks claims about Lebanese village names removal from Maps as Google also faces Hebrew label claims

Apple has pushed back on viral claims that it wiped Lebanese village names off its Maps app. The company says those locations in southern Lebanon were never part of the...

Apr 13, 2026 2 Min Read

ChatGPT calls user the N-Word out of nowhere during music search

A Reddit user says ChatGPT casually called them the N-Word while helping track down a metal song, and the post quickly caught fire on r/ChatGPT. The thread is...

Apr 10, 2026 2 Min Read

Apps

VLC and FFmpeg just turned Artemis into an open source flex

VLC just spotted itself in space. VideoLAN posted on X today after noticing their media player open on a laptop visible in a NASA Artemis video feed, and the internet...

Apr 08, 2026 2 Min Read

Someone built a literal digital whip for slow Claude — then another made it wholesome [U: C&D notice]

Update 08/04/26 – 11:15 am (IST): Well, the fun only lasted so long for the BadClaude creator. In a follow-up post, @blended_jpeg shared a Cease and...

Apr 07, 2026 2 Min Read

Internet Culture

Anthony Albanese says Australia is banning hard-to-cancel subscriptions

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced today that the government is banning subscriptions that trap people because they’re too hard to cancel. In a post on X, he said...

Apr 07, 2026 2 Min Read

Internet Culture

April Fools’ Day has everyone "shutting down", but some tech closures are actually real

April Fools’ Day turned social media into a mess of fake tech shutdown posts, but this year the jokes surfaced next to several closures that are very real. All this...

Apr 01, 2026 3 Min Read

Apps

Paul McCartney’s Reddit account reportedly hit with ban after concert photo posts

Paul McCartney’s official Reddit account seems to have been banned. The account, u/paulmccartney, had just dropped a set of photos and videos from the first night of...

Mar 30, 2026 1 Min Read

This new ‘JCal’ project maps Jeffrey Epstein’s schedule from the last 20 years

Jmail has rolled out JCal, a Google Calendar-style view that turns the Epstein files into a browsable timeline of flights and activities. On the live page, it opens on...

Mar 26, 2026 1 Min Read

Internet Culture

Skibidi Toilet creator controversy erupts again as DaFuq!?Boom! channel is rebranded

The YouTube channel DaFuq!?Boom!, home to the Skibidi Toilet series, has been rebranded to “Skibidi” by Invisible Narratives, and fans are not happy about it. The channel...

Mar 17, 2026 1 Min Read

Internet Culture

SubscribeStar creators fear another Patreon-style crackdown after policy update [U: Company responds]

Update 12/03/26 – 05:02 pm (IST): SubscribeStar has begun sending canned replies to users who contacted support, saying it will revert the recent updates as they were...

Mar 11, 2026 2 Min Read