Tag Archives: internet phenomena

What is DDoSing?

DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service, and it’s usually used to mean that a [...]

Explaining Content, Again and Again

Content creators have stumbled upon a new market: explaining movies the way online movie critics [...]

Has The Internet Made Mediocre Content Unfindable?

The Recent Drama The new movie “Don’t Worry Darling” had a number of issues leading [...]

Algorithm Hook-Mush

An inability to see the words for what they are instead of ‘hooks’ has led [...]

Why are Youtuber Sponsored Products all so… Weird?

The Process of a Sponsorship In the past, sponsorships relied on the star power of [...]

Re-Learning Bad Ideas Very Fast on TikTok

Forbidden knowledge is very alluring. In the early days of the internet, articles advertising hacks [...]

How Many Bad Conventions Start Online?

Why do so many of these cons have issues?  DashCon – One of The First [...]

What is the allure of the mysterious, sickeningly blue NyQuil chicken?

How did it make its triumphant return after months, perhaps years, of quiet slumber in [...]

Online True Crime’s Not Doing So Hot

You go to your computer. You see a headline for something clickbait-y, maybe “Insane murder [...]

Please don’t scan random QR codes

The Past and Present of Random Links Before the age of built in antivirus and [...]