Plus an interview with baritone Lucia Lucas

You know the Tootsie Shot. Why is it so sticky?

College athletes are finally able to make money off their celebrity. How will they use it?

Bruce Springsteen went from “new Dylan” to pop pinup when he learned to keep the catchy songs for himself.

The reboot focuses too much on representation and not enough on what made the show great.

The return of High Speed Downloads, plus a surprising number of internet outrages about cats.

This is the story of the invention and development of a potentially revolutionary device, how the hype got out of control, and how that speculation helped birth the modern internet.

Is GETTR done?

Dana Stevens and Karen Han spoil the new Marvel movie Black Widow.

Jeremy O. Harris talks about adapting 148 tweets into a screenplay that feels like the internet.

What happens, to an artist—to anyone—when they’re good enough, but that’s not enough?

Black choreographers on TikTok are refusing to create dances for Megan Thee Stallion’s new song because white influencers can’t stop stealing their work.

Chris Molanphy's deep dive on when rappers started singing, continued.

As Bo Burnham points out in his new special, the internet is inescapable.

Muzak, the purveyors of elevator music, had become a complete joke by the 1990’s when it found many of the players in the Seattle grunge scene working in its offices.