April Fools’ Day 2019: the best and cringiest pranks Happy Monday, and happy April Fools’ Day, aka the day on which all brands come out in full force to take us by storm with bad dad jokes. As a reminder, today’s a day to not believe what you see, because most unbelievable sights could just […]
PewDiePie temporarily dethroned as most popular YouTuber “All it took was a massive corporate entity with every song in Bollywood” Swedish gamer and vlogger PewDiePie has lost his crown as the YouTube star with the most subscribers. Indian channel T-Series, which share Bollywood film trailers and music videos, last week beat the star with thousands […]
I’ll never see Mum again. But I’ve learned to live with Mother’s Day Ican’t remember the last Mother’s Day I spent with my mum. It would have been in 2013, since in August of that year she died, but the day itself is lost in the memories of all those that came before it. Those […]
Lil Uzi Vert Comes Out of Retirement with ‘Free Uzi’ At the beginning of 2019, Lil Uzi Vert announced that he was retiring. He was frustrated with his label situation and with the hoops he needed to go through to drop new music. In an Instagram post he said, “I deleted everything I wanna be […]
Billie Eilish Is the Future I worry about people born in the 21st century. There’s something deep and dark stirring in our collective consciousness. They’re seeing it firsthand. The last generation grew up with at least the pretense of decency, with a sense that “the arc of history bends toward justice.” This decade says morality […]
Opinion Betsy DeVos doesn’t get why Special Olympics matter Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been gone for nearly 10 years, but this week, in the face of an appalling lack of understanding from the Trump White House about the national value of inspiration and courage, she just might be more powerful than she has ever been. […]
Cardi B defends herself after video resurfaces of her saying she drugged robbed men as a stripper Cardi B on Tuesday defended herself against detractors after an Instagram video resurfaced that showed her recalling that she drugged and robbed men when she worked as a stripper. In the three-year-old video that was shared on social […]
Europe just passed sweeping new copyright rules that Big Tech hates Lawmakers have approved a sweeping overhaul of copyright rules, dealing a blow to major tech companies that argued the changes will be costly and limit free expression. The European Parliament voted Tuesday to approve fiercely contested changes that make platforms such as YouTube responsible […]
Prosecutors dismiss charges against Smollett draw backlash Infuriating Chicago’s mayor and police chief, prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett on Tuesday after the “Empire” actor accused of faking a racist, anti-gay attack on himself agreed to let the city keep his $10,000 in bail. But he maintained his innocence and insisted he was […]
Spice Girls’ Mel B says she hooked up with bandmate Geri Halliwell Ahead of the Spice Girls’ reunion tour this summer, the group’s Scary Spice, Mel B, revealed in a bombshell interview with Piers Morgan that she slept with bandmate Geri Halliwell, aka Ginger Spice. Mel B made the confession during a taping of Piers […]