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The Observer / Observer Magazine

Why do some people develop the lost camera films of total strangers?

Paths of desire: lockdown has lent a new twist to the trails we leave behind

Truly, madly, deeply: meet the people turning their basements into secret fantasy worlds

Wired

Greta Thunberg: How one teenager became the voice of the planet

Swipe right for equality: how Bumble is taking on sexism

Safe and sound: The dodgy, vulnerable fame of YouTube’s child ASMR stars

New Statesman

The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors that think it does

How veganism went from a fringe food cult to a multibillion-pound industry

When my Polish grandmother was exiled to Siberia in WW2, India gave her a home

The Guardian & supplements

So long, salt and vinegar: how crisp flavours went from simple to sensational

‘They have you in a cultish grip’: the women losing thousands to online beauty schemes

The strange case of Marina Joyce and internet hysteria

i News

And the winner is… How the pause became the biggest thing on reality television

Momo challenge: The media is whipping up a moral panic over a ‘suicide game’

The only way to make a good film about anorexia would be to make a bad one

GQ

#MeToo: The changing face of dating apps

One in ten men don’t think upskirting is sexual harassment – we investigate why

Red Dead Redemption 2’s male rape scene has divided players

The Telegraph

Rise of the women haters: Inside the dark world of the British ‘incels’

‘This was my life – not a game show ploy’: inside reality TV’s grim obsession with sob stories

Sadvertising: why banking TV ads become more mawkish in a crisis

New Scientist

The strange rise of mukbang parents who feed their kids fast food for cash

The truth about generations: Why millennials aren’t special snowflakes

A new wave of apps say they can improve your friendships – can they?

The New York Times

British reality television is a theatre of cruelty

Life after prison, on YouTube

Bosses of the world, the office party is not for you

Vice

Seriously: why does everyone’s mum use that same cookie tin for sewing stuff?’

Formerly “ugly” people describe how society treats you differently when you’re beautiful

Young, old, male, female: Who gets believed on the internet?

Shortlist

“I hated every woman”: Former incels explain how virginity evolves into rage

Face value: How movies cast “ugly” characters – and how it feels to get the part 

“I didn’t think I was blackout material”: How it feels to get rejected on national TV

British Airways High Life

What happens when your hotel becomes Insta-famous?

Cosmopolitan 

How a UTI nearly killed me

Metro

Why do we experience the curse of conversation envy?

Experts explain why you don’t feel Christmassy

Penguin’s The Happy Reader

Issue No.9 – Three Cheers for Piracy

Issue No. 12 – Electropets

Dazed & Confused

Why I love the trashy, hated, live-action Bratz movie

How AI is being used to create fake revenge porn of political women

My search for the most obscure subculture on the internet

Refinery29

Why do teenage girls scribble out their faces on Instagram?

It’s time to talk about chewing and spitting disorder

What happens when therapists get bad online reviews

Penguin

‘Know My Name’ and the fallacy of the ‘perfect victim’

The 5 greatest film adaptations of ‘A Christmas Carol’

Broadly

Life when you’re both overweight and anorexic

What happens when you get scammed by an influencer

Washington Examiner

Whatever happened to quicksand?

The pandemic puzzle

Esquire

“Everyone On Twitter Is Insufferable”: ‘Eighth Grade’ Director Bo Burnham On YouTube Fame And Online Anxiety

FFWD

Reality TV turned these kids into villains. YouTube gave them a chance to set the record straight

Why more and more people watch YouTube videos on 2x speed

How it feels to vlog your wife’s death

Vox

Funko Pops: How aggressively cute toys for adults became a $686 million business

How foil balloons went from Instagram bait to every party in America

Tortoise

Reality Checks: why we’re tearing down the influencer industry

Prospect

Should internet porn be banned?

HuffPost

How it feels to be a young climate activist using social media

Mic

The futile, hypnotic quest of dumpster diving for gift cards

Paper

From how-tos to hauls: ten years of beauty YouTube

How and why we still feel FOMO in lockdown

MIT Technology Review

Meet the wannabe kidfluencers struggling for stardom

“Am I going crazy or am I being stalked?” The disturbing world of gangstalking

Curbed

Playhouse flippers: the parents renovating toy houses for toddlers

i-D

YouTubers are destroying their hair for internet fame

The Face

Inside the sexy Halloween costume industry

Tatler

Simply irresistible: make-up addicts

McSweeney’s

We are unable to offer you a place at Yale because your essay read like the closing narration of a teen rom-com

Evening Standard

The show must go viral: how TikTok gave theatre stars a new platform for performance

Stylist

Maybe, baby: the rise of motherhood ambivalence

The Special K Challenge: how a generation got hooked on a cereal diet

Babbel

My missed opportunity to grow up bilingual

Time Out

Why is central London suddenly so full of American sweet shops?

Empire

Inside The Hallmark Channel: The Weird And Wonderful World Of Made-For-TV Movies

Rolling Stone UK

Whatever happened to the Brit Crew?

The Truman Babies

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