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Silicon Valley Is Having a β€˜Hot Girl Renaissance’

By: Ej Dickson β€”
A San Francisco β€œHot List” is trying to buck stereotypes about dating in tech circles amid wider debates about the value of being perceived as attractive.
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The Patrick Clancy Conspiracy Theories Are Rooted in the Harsh Realities of Motherhood

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Lindsay Clancy’s defense argues she killed her three kids because of postpartum psychosis. But armchair detectives, including many fed-up mothers, are laying blame with her ex-husband.
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Viral Disneyland Content Creator Defends Her β€˜Special Friendship’ With Peter Pan

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Disney superfan Toni Kulusich has been accused of stalking her favorite character, sparking discourse about boundaries with park actors. She tells WIRED the backlash is unfair.
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TikTok Says β€˜Moderator Error’ Kept Perez Hilton Livestream Up

By: Ej Dickson β€”
The gossip blogger was on TikTok covered in what appeared to be blood and wielding a knifelike object before the platform cut his stream. He’s since been hospitalized.
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Etsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.
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YouTube and X Have Become β€˜Gateways’ to Nudify Apps

By: Ej Dickson β€”
A new study found that social media platforms are referring people to sites where they can create nonconsensual, sexually explicit deepfakes for as little as $1 an image.
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Influencers Are Promoting $50 Straws They Claim Will Protect Against Electromagnetic Radiation

By: Ej Dickson β€”
β€œEMF straws” and similar products are being sold as a way to block electromagnetic frequencies that come from common electronic devices, even without scientific evidence that they work.
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Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real.
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Robin Byrd, the Sex Godmother of Millennials, Says the Internet Ruined Porn

By: Ej Dickson β€”
The 1970s porn actress turned New York City late night public access queen says censorship and a lack of star quality among modern adult entertainers turned her off of the industry.
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Hollywood Thrives on β€˜Rabid’ Fans. For Publicists, They’re a Nightmare

By: Ej Dickson β€”
A scuffle between stan account Club Chalamet and another Heated Rivalry die-hard shines a light on how parasocial fans are a publicist’s greatest assetβ€”and liability.
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No, I Don’t Want to Watch Your Straight Hockey Show

By: Ej Dickson β€”
From Amazon’s Off Campus to Netflix’s upcoming Icebreakers, the recent spate of hetero hockey romances shows Hollywood learned the wrong lessons from Heated Rivalry.
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Matchmakers Are Being Paid $25K to Find Trad Wives for Rich Men

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Even in blue states, nonreligious tech entrepreneurs and CEOs are increasingly asking for β€œtraditional” and β€œconservative” women, matchmakers tell WIRED.
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Momfluencers Are Pitching AI as a Better β€˜Coparent’ Than Men

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Moms are outsourcing tedious household tasks to ChatGPT and selling courses teaching others to do the same. Where are all the dads?
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Streamers Like Clavicular Are Humiliating OnlyFans Girls For Clout

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Sex workers appear on the livestreams of famous manosphere influencers to boost their followingsβ€”but often end up being degraded.
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MAHA Keeps Being Weird as Hell About Fertility

By: Ej Dickson β€”
RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and β€œunderbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s pronatalist agenda.
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Some Women Are Obsessively Testing Their Vaginas to Optimize Them

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend's β€œtop 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.
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A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York

By: Ej Dickson β€”
The Institute for Primary Facts has compiled more than 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files for public display at the newly opened Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room.
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MAGA Is Confused About β€˜Animal Farm’

By: Ej Dickson β€”
The new film is the latest adaptation of George Orwell’s novel. Based on the critiques coming from right-wing influencers, it seems few of them fully grasp the book’s message.
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These Men Allegedly Profit Off Teaching People How to Make AI Porn

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Three Arizona women have filed a lawsuit against a group of men that alleges they used the women’s photos to make AI porn influencers, then offered online courses showing others how to do it.
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Female Looksmaxxer Alorah Ziva Is Suing Clavicular for Alleged Battery

By: Ej Dickson β€”
Aleksandra Mendoza, aka Alorah Ziva, alleges that the 20-year-old influencer injected her with drugs on a livestream and had nonconsensual sex with her while she was underage.
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These AI Thirst Trap Creators Say They’re Misunderstood

By: Ej Dickson β€”
A viral red carpet moment shone light on a group of hunky Instagram influencersβ€”and the followers who are too horny to care that they’re not real.
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This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift β€˜Super Dumb’ Men

By: Ej Dickson β€”
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.
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The Moms Who Sponcon Their Daughters’ First Periods

By: Ej Dickson β€”
From Mormon momfluencer domination to boosting engagement with partially clothed kids, journalist Fortesa Latifi’s new book exposes the dark and complex world of child influencers.
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