Rabbit Holes
Findings from the World Wide Web.
The Israel-Palestine Debate, on TikTok
Live-streamers have flooded the social-media platform to prove the righteousness of their side.
A YouTube View of Deion Sanders
The slapdash videos that Coach Prime and his team have been uploading show how he’s remade the University of Colorado football team.
Li Ziqi’s Online Pastoral Poetics
Millions of people subscribed to her vision of an idyllic rural existence. Who was she, and why did she disappear?
The Uncanny Failures of A.I.-Generated Hands
When it comes to one of humanity’s most important features, machines can grasp small patterns but not the unifying whole.
Do You Speak New York Times?
A Twitter bot shows how the newspaper has come to shape mainstream English usage.
The Internet’s Richest Fitness Resource Is a Site from 1999
Exrx.net is little changed since the days of Yahoo GeoCities and dial-up and saying “www” aloud. Yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
The Funniest Wasp Mom on TikTok
Caitlin Reilly revived her acting career by doing dead-on impressions of nervous publicists, actresses on Instagram, wellness influencers, overbearing mothers, and other fellow Los Angelenos.
The Instagram Reels Gold Rush
Influencers discovered they could earn tens of thousands of dollars on the platform by making simple reaction videos.
Turning YouTube Comments Into Art
Chiara Amisola took a close look at the stories and revelations that people leave below online videos.
The Fast-Food Stars of TikTok
With the right kind of videos, a job at Subway can become a gold mine.