Since Viner Peaches Monroee uploaded a video of herself describing her eyebrows as being “on fleek,” slang for stylish or “on point,” the quote has taken off online with references by model Kim Kardashian and even the International House of Pancakes Twitter feed.
When Nicole Allen, a mother of a two-year-old from Dayton, Ohio, picked up a seemingly innocuous princess wand toy for her baby girl, she didn’t think much of its peculiar label “Evilstick.” But little did she know, the toy certainly lived up to its name. Upon closer inspection, Nicole found herself in shock after uncovering a disturbing image of a girl slitting her wrist hidden underneath its silver foil.
Not that Kim Kardashian hasn’t bared it all for glam photo shoots before, but with her latest cover photo for Paper Magazine, shot by renowned French photographer Jean-Paul Goude, the 34-year-old reality TV star is on a mission to #BreakTheInternet.
A young man in China apparently spent a cool $82,000 to buy 99 iPhone 6 devices as part of his elaborate plan to propose to his girlfriend in public, but sadly, she turned him down.
“Philae lander” is trending worldwide on Google and Twitter after the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission reached a new milestone yesterday by landing on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, a comet about the size of New York’s Central Park, moving at over 34,000 miles per hour more than 317 million miles away from home.
Check out the pilot episode of Explosm’s new Cyanide and Happiness web series!
People have been using the word “literally” as a substitute for “figuratively” since as early as 1769.
On Monday night, Anderson Cooper knew he was going to dish out on annoying pet peeves in the workspace for his punchy “Ridiculist” segment, but little did he know that his co-workers had prepared something else on the teleprompter. Apparently, some of his colleagues aren’t huge fans of a scented candle that he likes to burn in his office.
This 1943 United States propaganda poster, which suggested that Americans caropool to conserve national resources during World War II, has been widely parodied online for its use of hyperbole.
Cinema Sins points out the numerous flaws in the 2000 Japanese action thriller Battle Royale, in which a group of junior high school students compete in death match on a remote island.
Yesterday, TIME posted its fourth annual “word banishment” poll to single out one buzzword from this year and declare it banned in 2015, which included a slew of internet slangs and meme-y expressions, but then also, dare we speak of it: feminism. Can you guess what happened next?
Father Chris Picco sings the 1968 Beatles song “Blackbird” to his 24-week-old dying son, Lennon James Picco, who was delivered by emergency C-section after his mother Ashley unexpectedly passed away in her sleep.
This crowdfunding site has become one of the many battlegrounds in this year’s GamerGate controversy.
“Did you try kicking it?”
Just in a week, Adult Swim‘s absurd(ist)ly long parody video of ’80s sitcom opening sequences has gained more than 2.5 million views on YouTube. Now, everyone is asking how it managed to defy the laws of tl;dw (too long; didn’t watch). What do you think?
Misogyny, it’s in every bowl. Explore the role of women in various breakfast cereals with Evan Delshaw in this parody of Anita Sarkeesian’s Tropes vs. Women in Video Games.
Several men who were shown approaching a seemingly inebriated woman stumbling down Hollywood Boulevard in a purported “social experiment” video have come forward claiming they were cast under the false premise of creating a “funny skit.”
