2024
Influencers are going full MAGA after the election (The Cut)
Meet Casey and Calley Means, the siblings with RFK’s ear (New York Magazine)
Angel numbers have taken over social media. Their creator says they’re bullshit. (The Cut)
Meet the men who comment on porn sites (The Cut)
Jojo Siwa promised the XOMGPop girls stardom. They say they were thrown in the trash (Rolling Stone)
A hippie private school offered to help troubled kids. Former students say it was a nightmare (Rolling Stone)
Inside the werewolf billionaire CEOs taking over TikTok and Hollywood (Rolling Stone)
People blamed astrology influencer Danielle Johnson’s murder-suicide on the eclipse. What really happened? (Rolling Stone)
What is “unschooling,” the parenting trend taking over TikTok? (Rolling Stone)
How the Mouse stumbled: Inside Disney’s worst year ever (Rolling Stone)
2023
His true crime podcast stood up for victims. Now, he’s being accused of abuse (Rolling Stone)
Exclusive: The leaked texts showing how Andrew Tate taught followers to traffic women (Rolling Stone)
How the right boosted anti-trans hate — and ran up their follower counts (Rolling Stone)
Meet Evie Magazine, the anti-choice Gen Z Cosmo for the far right (Rolling Stone)
Inside the wellness scam pushing the Healy, a $4,000 hunk of plastic (Rolling Stone)
They’re selling nudes of imaginary women — and making six figures doing it (Rolling Stone)
Andrew Tate built an empire on bullshit. Here’s the real story. (Rolling Stone)
People are getting pregnant on this trendy new birth control (Rolling Stone)
2022
How the Mormon Church protected a sex therapist accused of abuse (Rolling Stone)
The hucksters pushing ketamine therapy on TikTok (Rolling Stone)
Inside the far-right moral panic over antidepressants (Rolling Stone)
The stage mom and pageant daughter at the center of wild trafficking conspiracy theories (Rolling Stone)
How Disney adults became the most hated group on the internet (Rolling Stone)
Inside the redpilling of beauty guru Michelle Phan (Rolling Stone)
The Instagram spiritual guru “fucking his female followers to freedom” (Rolling Stone)
The porno-metal gay cowboy anthem that is being used to troll anti-vaxxers (Rolling Stone)
The Trumpworld beauty queen paying kids at Target to go maskless (Rolling Stone)
EXCLUSIVE: The campaign to hold Spotify accountable for Joe Rogan’s Covid lies (Rolling Stone)
What the hell is going on with James Van der Beek and his wife? (Rolling Stone)
The secret industry of OnlyFans managers scamming models (Rolling Stone)
2021
Dispatches from the 100th anniversary of Miss America (Rolling Stone)
How a bogus anti-vaccine video went viral on TikTok (Rolling Stone)
The influencer accused of running a lesbian BDSM BBW cult /(Rolling Stone)
Inside a Cosplay Killing (Rolling Stone)
The far-right mayoral candidate caught scrubbing QAnon merch from his website (Rolling Stone)
Inside the Brutal Murder of Instagram influencer Mercedes Morr (Rolling Stone)
Why kids are gravitating to secret strip clubs on Roblox (Rolling Stone)
The secret history of the worst Legally Blonde production ever (Rolling Stone)
The $100,000 chicken McNugget that triggered a TikTok sex trafficking conspiracy theory (Rolling Stone)
The rise and fall of the Proud Boys (Rolling Stone)
Why are IDF soldiers posting thirst traps on TikTok? (Rolling Stone)
How the dream of a porn content house fell apart (Rolling Stone)
How COVID left a generation in limbo (Rolling Stone)
QAnon influencers are flourishing on Patreon (Rolling Stone)
2020
Meet the people who get off on COVID-19 nasal swabs (Rolling Stone)
Pastel QAnon is infiltrating the natural parenting community (Rolling Stone)
A TikTok stripper got millions of followers for her wild stories. They aren’t true. (Rolling Stone)
How a pro-Trump Stop the Steal group became “Gay Communists for Socialism” (Rolling Stone)
How special needs children suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic (Rolling Stone)
The rise of far-right cable news conspiracy theorist Chanel Rion (Rolling Stone)
How a Netflix documentary fueled the far-right obsession with pedophilia (ROlling Stone)
The birth of the QAmom (Rolling Stone)
How TikTok is encouraging eating disorders (Rolling Stone)
How Ron Jeremy preyed on women (Rolling Stone)
The tragic death of Sha-Asia Washington (Rolling Stone)
In wake of Black Lives Matter movement, porn industry reckons with history of racism (Rolling Stone)
Sex workers built OnlyFans. Now, they’re getting kicked off. (Rolling Stone)
2019
Why straight men are joining masturbation clubs (GQ)
Parents are retouching their kids’ school photos and their photos on Instagram (Glamour)
Rich kids are using Apple watches to cheat in schools (The Outline)
Guys in Disney social clubs are wilding out at the happiest place on Earth (MEL Magazine)
Competitive eating is basically getting paid to have an eating disorder (MEL Magazine)
2018
Why do men blow burps out of the side of their mouth? (The Cut)
Inside the mommy-friendly, scientifically sketchy world of breastfeeding supplements (Vox)
The dangerous, racist world of vaginal lightening (Vox)
The elite cabal of mall Santas making up to $20,000 every Christmas (Vox)
How sexual assault survivors are using ASMR to recover from trauma (Teen Vogue)
On what to say if someone asks if you’re breastfeeding (New York Times)
On why young women are convinced motherhood is going to suck (Bustle)
2017
On why straight guys send each other their dick pics (The Cut)
On the sexual assault allegations against porn star Ron Jeremy (Rolling Stone)
On becoming a mom in your 20s (New York Magazine)
On the cultural history of the underboob (Playboy Magazine)
On the myth of the "unicorn," or straight ladies who love having threesomes (New York Post)
2016
On bridal gown contracts, the wedding cost no one talks about (New York Times)
On why millennials are borrowing money from their parents to freeze their eggs (The Outline)
On the penile plethysmograph, a controversial test used to punish sex offenders (Vice)
On women who make a living smoking weed on Periscope (Refinery29)
On the cultural history of the porn pizza delivery guy, the XXX industry's most enduring character trope (Eater)
On "mooning," the tech dating trend that's replaced ghosting (GQ)
On the psychology of why teen girls shoplift (Racked)
On the brunch bread basket, the restaurant industry's biggest scam (Extra Crispy)
2014
On the cult legacy of Wee Sing in Sillyville, a 1980s direct-to-video children's musical (Vice)
On the secret world of financial domination, a fetish where men get off to giving women money (Salon)
On how I started a massive Amelia Bedelia Wikipedia hoax (Daily Dot)