YouTube Beef
YouTube phenom RiceGum is racking up followers with his mocking music video of rival bro Jake Paul.
Taylor Lorenz is a former technology reporter at The Daily Beast. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Fast Company, BuzzFeed, the New York Observer, People, Entertainment Weekly, and others. You can follow her on Twitter @taylorlorenz.
OUTSIDE THE MATRIX
On a recent Saturday night, Memers and their die-hard fans met to dance and commiserate over "millennial miseries."
DM DIRTBAGS
Female memers sound off about the 31-year-old man behind the popular ‘Content Zone’ meme pages, who shuttered his account amid allegations he sent creepy DMs to underage teens.
FACE TIME
Laverne Cox made a cameo appearance and teen girls wept as their favorite vloggers and social media stars swept across the plush pink carpet at Beautycon 2018.
DON’T HATE
The actor went on a rude, entitled rant about social media at the Shorty Awards.
MEME-LORDS
‘Being a skinny legend isn’t about being what other people deem as thin. It’s a frame of mind.’
STARTED FROM HARVARD, NOW WE’RE HERE
Twitter had a field day as senators grilled the Facebook CEO over Cambridge Analytica's data breach before the 2016 elections.
MOOD = SAD
“Not to be overly dramatic, but lots of people are really angry,” one prominent user told The Daily Beast after news of the shopping site’s shuttering.
HORRIFIED
In the wake of the shooting at YouTube headquarters, the platform’s creator community is grappling with how to move forward.
Better Late
After declining to answer questions, the company said after this article was first posted that it would allow employees to talk to the press about it.