As 2025 comes to a close, people turn to the highlights of what made the year special…or at least bearable. There were plenty of viral trends and memes that took over the internet this year, though ...

It’s a weird time to be a journalist. Digital news archives are disappearing. Generative AI is giving em dashes a bad name. Layoffs. Consolidations. Buyouts. Burnout. Countless, daily insults from the ...

Christmas is almost here, and between wrapping gifts, rushing for last-minute shopping, and juggling holiday cooking, things can get a little chaotic. In the middle of all that festive madness, ...

Italian Brain Rot exploded in 2025 as a surreal, AI-fueled meme genre featuring over-the-top Italian stereotypes, exaggerated accents, operatic music, and nonsense visuals that felt intentionally ...

We are always chronically online, but 2025 has been a particularly great year to be on the internet, thanks to the hundreds of memes that take over our social feeds. But what have been the stand outs ...

2025 gave us the hero with a hero, bloated Vance, and who could forget the Coldplay couple? (edit Valentina Di Liscia/Hyperallergic) As the year comes to an end, I’m really at a loss for where to ...

As we say our goodbyes to 2025, we must bid adieu to the memes that came with it. It was a surreal year on the internet — many of this year’s memes leaned heavily into the brain rot that’s come with ...

Snubbed by the College Football Playoff, Notre Dame took its ball and went home. It didn’t go well on social media for the Irish. Memes dominated news feeds mocking the unfortunate turn of events for ...

One Battle After Another was one of the best movies of 2025, garnering Oscar buzz in many categories—from Best Picture to Best Director to every acting nod on the list. So it makes sense that the film ...

There is a global mental-health crisis among graduate students in academia. Yet, in many countries, including Brazil, where I live, official data on the topic are scarce. In this vacuum, a powerful, ...