Tinder and Hinge parent company Match Group invested $100 million into the queer cruising app Sniffies. The move has left users feeling uneasy about what happens next.
On TikTok, young women are going viral for crafting whimsical homemade computers inside purses.
A viral red carpet moment shone light on a group of hunky Instagram influencers—and the followers who are too horny to care that they’re not real.
A legion of young fans propelled the singer D4vd to viral fame. Now that he’s been charged with the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, they say the clues were in their Discord all along.
Pangram Labs’ updated Chrome extension puts warning labels on AI slop as you scroll your social feeds.
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
The jokes were funny. The systems behind them—and the reasons we keep passing around war memes as entertainment—are more serious.
From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels.
The platform’s large-scale crackdown on automated accounts is also impacting people who’ve spent years curating niche porn on secret X accounts.
As debates over social media addiction rage, people with extreme screen times tell WIRED they have no plans to cut back.