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We’re talking to creators, trendspotters and trendsetters to get the scoop on what’s now and what’s next on TikTok, Instagram and your favorite social platforms.

A group of people on their laptops, working together
'Admin night' is the most responsible fun you can have in 2026
Music on TikTok
How TikTok is rewriting the soundtrack of music discovery
Rococo is back: how the 18th-century trend became 2025’s obsession
Rococo revival: Why pastels, whimsy, and Labubus are everywhere
JUNE 30: Interns work for cable news network run out of the U.S. Supreme Court with the latest ruling for their news anchors on June 30, 2026 in Washington, DC.
The Supreme Court’s strangest media tradition is still running
A collage shows a young man engulfed in cigarette smoke (centre frame), with a pack of cigarettes to his left and a vape and some nicotine pouches to the right
Boys on the internet are telling me nicotine is a productivity hack
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South Korea’s ‘dopamine sites’ let you shop, order food, and spend nothing

Features

viral internet slang words appear as buildings in a cityscape Chat, are we cooked? A guide to internet slang in 2026.
Supporters of Mexico at the 2026 FIFA World Cup The World Cup's breakout star is a duck in a tiny Mexico jersey
Screenshots from TikTok and Instagram Reels of parents turning their kids' texts into emo songs using AI Parents are turning their teens' texts into AI emo songs
A bunch of men with balls for heads discussing ball at a cocktail bar Do you know ball? Inside the internet's most obsessive basketball debate.
gen z and millennial looking directly into iphone camera on tiktok The latest Gen Z vs. millennial debate is the space above your head

Videos

The Dua Lipa Effect: Christianna Silva and Dua Lipa slurping pasta
Why everyone online wants to live like Dua Lipa
Christianna Silva and Judith Butler in front of the American Flag
Gen Z men are more religious online
A photo shows Louis Hamilton waving at fans. Caption reads "F1 fever"
How F1 became a global obsession
A collage shows a prediction market screen, an image of a detonated nuclear bomb, and Polymarket's logo
How online prediction markets got people betting on nuclear war
A close up shows a hand taking popcorn from a bucket at the cinema. Captions reads: "Gen Z at the cinema"
Is Gen Z driving a return to the cinema?
More Trending Now
'Pokémon Pokopia' is the cozy escape the internet needed
By Crystal Bell
A screenshot from Pokemon Pokopia showing a character followed by Pokemon through a bright landscape.
The Looksmaxxing Glossary: Every term you need to understand the internet's most unhinged subculture
By Chance Townsend
stylized image of a white man with above average physical physique
Who is Clavicular, and why is he everywhere right now?
By Anna Iovine
clavicular, a white man
Is ChatGPT Changing the Way We Write?
By Teodosia Dobriyanova
From left to right:a collage shows the portraits of Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Laurence Sterne against a pale green background with the ChatGPT name and logo floating around. Caption reads: "Death of the em-dash?"
Moltbook's real risk isn't AI. It's your data.
By Teodosia Dobriyanova
A close up of a hand holding a smartphone with the Moltbook app opened. Caption reads "No more 'unintended consequences of AI'
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