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A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring original reporting on how the internet is reshaping politics, business, media, and culture.

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Zuck Wants AI to Know Everything About You
De-Flock America Night, Chanty Beluga, Zyzz, AirPod cameras, Humanoid Robot Olympics, data center piss pot, Ramp's Kumar Method, MrBeast’s Rizz dance, and a 24-hour AI news channel
User Mag 1 day ago
Inside America's First Venture Backed Bot Farm
The tech bubble funding millions of fake accounts
User Mag 4 days ago
People Hate AI No Matter How Tech CEOs Talk About It
Vast swaths of the American public are against AI, and as Silicon Valley CEOs attempt to shift the narrative there are signs that they’re going to have to do a lot more than simply change the way they’re talking about the tech.
User Mag 8 days ago
Would you pee on a Flock camera for $50?
Gen-Z sugar mamas, OpenAI’s smart doughnut, Apple's lookalike contest, the AI Scarlet Letter, baby’s first surveillance system, Dario's YouTube habit, and why friend group accounts are trending
User Mag 11 days ago
The Truth About The OpenAI Brand Trip
+ Gen alpha tradwives, a self help influencer's dark secret, the king of hopecore, a deep dive into the data center backlash, social media's last taboo, and is AI burning The Library Of Alexandria?
User Mag 15 days ago
My Journey Into The Slop Factory
Higgsfield AI promises to turn you into an AI filmmaker, what it really makes you is a subscriber.
User Mag 21 days ago
Anthropic vs The Entire Tech Industry
+ A Rooma ban, UK Poo, AI dread hotline, TikTokified HBO, MrsBeast, the Graza of peanut butter, the new tech bro billionaire uniform, & why you're probably being recorded by Granola everywhere you go
User Mag 22 days ago
The Secret Influencer Campaign Boosting Haley Stevens
Creators are being offered thousands of dollars to promote Stevens online without disclosure
User Mag 23 days ago
Bill Gates Daughter's $43M Tech Scandal
+ Kimi K3 tea, promptonyms, friendly fraud, robot marriage, Disney's AI series, Bean Soup Theory, Katie Porter's BookTok pivot, follower fraud, & how dash cameras have become content-creation machines
User Mag about 1 month ago
Hot Surveillance Summer, aka Why Smart Glasses Feel Different This Time
Chinese dreamcore, Claudefishing, swipeflation, Clavicular's Israel trip, humanoid robot fingers, a tokenpocalypse, the Pod Save patriarchy, why the trillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta doesn’t add up
User Mag about 1 month ago
How and Why to Fight Back Against Social Media Bans
+ Corporate girlies, X psychosis, UGC mania, a tech swag fashion show, Minionese Idol, Machinic Taste, the secret history of Polymarket, and how VidCon became a cancelled YouTuber apology tour
User Mag about 2 months ago
What Is Peter Thiel Doing In Argentina?
Watch now | NYT's Ryan Mac joins me to break down Peter Thiel's Argentina obsession, discuss the secret cult, and more.
User Mag about 2 months ago
Hasan Piker On The Next Big Internet Battle
+ Inside tea on Peter Thiel’s secret society, doom trolling, Edikted, Streamer U mania, dopamine sites, Whoa Vicky's literary era, GR00T, Footy Addicts, and a Polymarket podcast
User Mag 2 months ago
The Bounty Economy Is Breaking Reality
On Pump Fun GO you can get paid to post election fraud conspiracies and more.
User Mag 2 months ago
A Pro-AI Super PAC’s Secret Meme Sockpuppets
Lonliness influencers, death of YouTube face, Airbnb robot cleaners, Suno addicts, George Santos Kalshi crimes, VidConization of Hollywood, why Alex Hormozi publishes 250 videos a day to social media
User Mag 3 months ago
No, Creators Don't 'Deserve to Be Paid' for This
The influencer political advertising boom is poisoning democracy.
User Mag 3 months ago
The Influencer Industrial Complex is Warping Local Politics
Political content creators are seeking to build their brands through collabbing with candidates, often without proper disclosure.
User Mag 3 months ago
Ben Shapiro's Empire is Crumbling w/ Will Sommer
+ Waymo invasions, WordleTV, Halupedia, ballmaxxing, rogue AI radio, NYC roulette, Clav's List, YouTube whisperers, Elon's top reply guy, and another study finds zero benefits from smartphone bans
User Mag 3 months ago
Stop Feeling Helpless About AI
+ 'Screenagers', Bottom G, Labububot, armpods, pew-tubers, Richard Dawkins' AI gf, ASMR subliminals, luxury micro dramas, young Wikipedians, The Clippening, & the rise of the young founder-influencer
User Mag 3 months ago
A pro-AI dark money group tried to recruit me
A few weeks ago, an email hit my inbox that shocked me.
User Mag 4 months ago
How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?
I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all.
User Mag 4 months ago
The Girlboss-ification of AI w/ Kat Tenbarge
+ Bezos’s private retreat, Alex Cooper drama, new MrBeast lawsuit, the OpenAI apartment, China’s ‘dark factories', Pasta sauce surveillance, and why big tech’s ‘tobacco moment’ isn’t what it seems
User Mag 4 months ago
Influencers Are Replacing Themselves With AI Clones
Anthropic girlypop dinners, new Costco Guys, BuzzBallz summer, Gen Z's silent scream, FBI aura farming, Elon Musk's TikTok, Mahjong mania, SantaCon fraud, andthe case against social media "addiction"
User Mag 4 months ago
Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down
+ Boy kibble, cyberdecks, Bierberchella, AI Michael Jackson babies, peptides overtake pickleball, dating app whimsey, deep runs, an AI storefront, YouTubers vs Apple, Claude Code whips and fairy wands
User Mag 4 months ago
They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses
+ NeeDoh squishies, Twitch for pets, Waymo influencer merch, OpenClaw crashouts, Alix Earle's skincare blowout, smut book clubs, Surf social, AI's millennial cringe problem, and Sam Altman tea
User Mag 5 months ago
Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
+ YouTube Shorts rizz party, Clavicular's Club Stream, heat islands, MrBeast's Japan pivot, Costco's chocolate bunny, Twitch streaming as a dog, and the doomed project to cancel Hasan Piker
User Mag 5 months ago
The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
+ LA's crypto kids, @user3266363816019, AI bedtime stories, slop signage, alpine divorce, a KitKat heist, the White House app, byyourselfmaxxing, and against the smartphone theory of everything
User Mag 5 months ago
The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Haven’t Noticed)
AI influencer awards season, vaping squirrels, RIP Sora, bestie-fication of media, peak MrBeast, the pop diva extinction, Zuckerberg's claw, a cowgorithm, Fortnite brain rot, LinkedIn “builder” plague
User Mag 5 months ago
The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, ‘porn addiction’ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste, supplement stacking, & how OpenClaw conquer the internet
User Mag 5 months ago
How Powerful People Became Obsessed w/ Section 230
The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harry’s Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red carpet, and secret billionaire typing patterns
User Mag 5 months ago
Zuck Wants AI to Know Everything About You
De-Flock America Night, Chanty Beluga, Zyzz, AirPod cameras, Humanoid Robot Olympics, data center piss pot, Ramp's Kumar Method, MrBeast’s Rizz dance, and a 24-hour AI news channel
User Mag 1 day ago
Inside America's First Venture Backed Bot Farm
The tech bubble funding millions of fake accounts
User Mag 4 days ago
People Hate AI No Matter How Tech CEOs Talk About It
Vast swaths of the American public are against AI, and as Silicon Valley CEOs attempt to shift the narrative there are signs that they’re going to have to do a lot more than simply change the way they’re talking about the tech.
User Mag 8 days ago
Would you pee on a Flock camera for $50?
Gen-Z sugar mamas, OpenAI’s smart doughnut, Apple's lookalike contest, the AI Scarlet Letter, baby’s first surveillance system, Dario's YouTube habit, and why friend group accounts are trending
User Mag 11 days ago
The Truth About The OpenAI Brand Trip
+ Gen alpha tradwives, a self help influencer's dark secret, the king of hopecore, a deep dive into the data center backlash, social media's last taboo, and is AI burning The Library Of Alexandria?
User Mag 15 days ago
My Journey Into The Slop Factory
Higgsfield AI promises to turn you into an AI filmmaker, what it really makes you is a subscriber.
User Mag 21 days ago
Anthropic vs The Entire Tech Industry
+ A Rooma ban, UK Poo, AI dread hotline, TikTokified HBO, MrsBeast, the Graza of peanut butter, the new tech bro billionaire uniform, & why you're probably being recorded by Granola everywhere you go
User Mag 22 days ago
The Secret Influencer Campaign Boosting Haley Stevens
Creators are being offered thousands of dollars to promote Stevens online without disclosure
User Mag 23 days ago
Bill Gates Daughter's $43M Tech Scandal
+ Kimi K3 tea, promptonyms, friendly fraud, robot marriage, Disney's AI series, Bean Soup Theory, Katie Porter's BookTok pivot, follower fraud, & how dash cameras have become content-creation machines
User Mag about 1 month ago
Hot Surveillance Summer, aka Why Smart Glasses Feel Different This Time
Chinese dreamcore, Claudefishing, swipeflation, Clavicular's Israel trip, humanoid robot fingers, a tokenpocalypse, the Pod Save patriarchy, why the trillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta doesn’t add up
User Mag about 1 month ago
How and Why to Fight Back Against Social Media Bans
+ Corporate girlies, X psychosis, UGC mania, a tech swag fashion show, Minionese Idol, Machinic Taste, the secret history of Polymarket, and how VidCon became a cancelled YouTuber apology tour
User Mag about 2 months ago
What Is Peter Thiel Doing In Argentina?
Watch now | NYT's Ryan Mac joins me to break down Peter Thiel's Argentina obsession, discuss the secret cult, and more.
User Mag about 2 months ago
Hasan Piker On The Next Big Internet Battle
+ Inside tea on Peter Thiel’s secret society, doom trolling, Edikted, Streamer U mania, dopamine sites, Whoa Vicky's literary era, GR00T, Footy Addicts, and a Polymarket podcast
User Mag 2 months ago
The Bounty Economy Is Breaking Reality
On Pump Fun GO you can get paid to post election fraud conspiracies and more.
User Mag 2 months ago
A Pro-AI Super PAC’s Secret Meme Sockpuppets
Lonliness influencers, death of YouTube face, Airbnb robot cleaners, Suno addicts, George Santos Kalshi crimes, VidConization of Hollywood, why Alex Hormozi publishes 250 videos a day to social media
User Mag 3 months ago
No, Creators Don't 'Deserve to Be Paid' for This
The influencer political advertising boom is poisoning democracy.
User Mag 3 months ago
The Influencer Industrial Complex is Warping Local Politics
Political content creators are seeking to build their brands through collabbing with candidates, often without proper disclosure.
User Mag 3 months ago
Ben Shapiro's Empire is Crumbling w/ Will Sommer
+ Waymo invasions, WordleTV, Halupedia, ballmaxxing, rogue AI radio, NYC roulette, Clav's List, YouTube whisperers, Elon's top reply guy, and another study finds zero benefits from smartphone bans
User Mag 3 months ago
Stop Feeling Helpless About AI
+ 'Screenagers', Bottom G, Labububot, armpods, pew-tubers, Richard Dawkins' AI gf, ASMR subliminals, luxury micro dramas, young Wikipedians, The Clippening, & the rise of the young founder-influencer
User Mag 3 months ago
A pro-AI dark money group tried to recruit me
A few weeks ago, an email hit my inbox that shocked me.
User Mag 4 months ago
How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?
I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all.
User Mag 4 months ago
The Girlboss-ification of AI w/ Kat Tenbarge
+ Bezos’s private retreat, Alex Cooper drama, new MrBeast lawsuit, the OpenAI apartment, China’s ‘dark factories', Pasta sauce surveillance, and why big tech’s ‘tobacco moment’ isn’t what it seems
User Mag 4 months ago
Influencers Are Replacing Themselves With AI Clones
Anthropic girlypop dinners, new Costco Guys, BuzzBallz summer, Gen Z's silent scream, FBI aura farming, Elon Musk's TikTok, Mahjong mania, SantaCon fraud, andthe case against social media "addiction"
User Mag 4 months ago
Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down
+ Boy kibble, cyberdecks, Bierberchella, AI Michael Jackson babies, peptides overtake pickleball, dating app whimsey, deep runs, an AI storefront, YouTubers vs Apple, Claude Code whips and fairy wands
User Mag 4 months ago
They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses
+ NeeDoh squishies, Twitch for pets, Waymo influencer merch, OpenClaw crashouts, Alix Earle's skincare blowout, smut book clubs, Surf social, AI's millennial cringe problem, and Sam Altman tea
User Mag 5 months ago
Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
+ YouTube Shorts rizz party, Clavicular's Club Stream, heat islands, MrBeast's Japan pivot, Costco's chocolate bunny, Twitch streaming as a dog, and the doomed project to cancel Hasan Piker
User Mag 5 months ago
The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
+ LA's crypto kids, @user3266363816019, AI bedtime stories, slop signage, alpine divorce, a KitKat heist, the White House app, byyourselfmaxxing, and against the smartphone theory of everything
User Mag 5 months ago
The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Haven’t Noticed)
AI influencer awards season, vaping squirrels, RIP Sora, bestie-fication of media, peak MrBeast, the pop diva extinction, Zuckerberg's claw, a cowgorithm, Fortnite brain rot, LinkedIn “builder” plague
User Mag 5 months ago
The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, ‘porn addiction’ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste, supplement stacking, & how OpenClaw conquer the internet
User Mag 5 months ago
How Powerful People Became Obsessed w/ Section 230
The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harry’s Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red carpet, and secret billionaire typing patterns
User Mag 5 months ago
Zuck Wants AI to Know Everything About You
De-Flock America Night, Chanty Beluga, Zyzz, AirPod cameras, Humanoid Robot Olympics, data center piss pot, Ramp's Kumar Method, MrBeast’s Rizz dance, and a 24-hour AI news channel
User Mag 1 day ago
Inside America's First Venture Backed Bot Farm
The tech bubble funding millions of fake accounts
User Mag 4 days ago
People Hate AI No Matter How Tech CEOs Talk About It
Vast swaths of the American public are against AI, and as Silicon Valley CEOs attempt to shift the narrative there are signs that they’re going to have to do a lot more than simply change the way they’re talking about the tech.
User Mag 8 days ago
Would you pee on a Flock camera for $50?
Gen-Z sugar mamas, OpenAI’s smart doughnut, Apple's lookalike contest, the AI Scarlet Letter, baby’s first surveillance system, Dario's YouTube habit, and why friend group accounts are trending
User Mag 11 days ago
The Truth About The OpenAI Brand Trip
+ Gen alpha tradwives, a self help influencer's dark secret, the king of hopecore, a deep dive into the data center backlash, social media's last taboo, and is AI burning The Library Of Alexandria?
User Mag 15 days ago
My Journey Into The Slop Factory
Higgsfield AI promises to turn you into an AI filmmaker, what it really makes you is a subscriber.
User Mag 21 days ago
Anthropic vs The Entire Tech Industry
+ A Rooma ban, UK Poo, AI dread hotline, TikTokified HBO, MrsBeast, the Graza of peanut butter, the new tech bro billionaire uniform, & why you're probably being recorded by Granola everywhere you go
User Mag 22 days ago
The Secret Influencer Campaign Boosting Haley Stevens
Creators are being offered thousands of dollars to promote Stevens online without disclosure
User Mag 23 days ago
Bill Gates Daughter's $43M Tech Scandal
+ Kimi K3 tea, promptonyms, friendly fraud, robot marriage, Disney's AI series, Bean Soup Theory, Katie Porter's BookTok pivot, follower fraud, & how dash cameras have become content-creation machines
User Mag about 1 month ago
Hot Surveillance Summer, aka Why Smart Glasses Feel Different This Time
Chinese dreamcore, Claudefishing, swipeflation, Clavicular's Israel trip, humanoid robot fingers, a tokenpocalypse, the Pod Save patriarchy, why the trillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta doesn’t add up
User Mag about 1 month ago
How and Why to Fight Back Against Social Media Bans
+ Corporate girlies, X psychosis, UGC mania, a tech swag fashion show, Minionese Idol, Machinic Taste, the secret history of Polymarket, and how VidCon became a cancelled YouTuber apology tour
User Mag about 2 months ago
What Is Peter Thiel Doing In Argentina?
Watch now | NYT's Ryan Mac joins me to break down Peter Thiel's Argentina obsession, discuss the secret cult, and more.
User Mag about 2 months ago
Hasan Piker On The Next Big Internet Battle
+ Inside tea on Peter Thiel’s secret society, doom trolling, Edikted, Streamer U mania, dopamine sites, Whoa Vicky's literary era, GR00T, Footy Addicts, and a Polymarket podcast
User Mag 2 months ago
The Bounty Economy Is Breaking Reality
On Pump Fun GO you can get paid to post election fraud conspiracies and more.
User Mag 2 months ago
A Pro-AI Super PAC’s Secret Meme Sockpuppets
Lonliness influencers, death of YouTube face, Airbnb robot cleaners, Suno addicts, George Santos Kalshi crimes, VidConization of Hollywood, why Alex Hormozi publishes 250 videos a day to social media
User Mag 3 months ago
No, Creators Don't 'Deserve to Be Paid' for This
The influencer political advertising boom is poisoning democracy.
User Mag 3 months ago
The Influencer Industrial Complex is Warping Local Politics
Political content creators are seeking to build their brands through collabbing with candidates, often without proper disclosure.
User Mag 3 months ago
Ben Shapiro's Empire is Crumbling w/ Will Sommer
+ Waymo invasions, WordleTV, Halupedia, ballmaxxing, rogue AI radio, NYC roulette, Clav's List, YouTube whisperers, Elon's top reply guy, and another study finds zero benefits from smartphone bans
User Mag 3 months ago
Stop Feeling Helpless About AI
+ 'Screenagers', Bottom G, Labububot, armpods, pew-tubers, Richard Dawkins' AI gf, ASMR subliminals, luxury micro dramas, young Wikipedians, The Clippening, & the rise of the young founder-influencer
User Mag 3 months ago
A pro-AI dark money group tried to recruit me
A few weeks ago, an email hit my inbox that shocked me.
User Mag 4 months ago
How Much of Substack Is Actually AI?
I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all.
User Mag 4 months ago
The Girlboss-ification of AI w/ Kat Tenbarge
+ Bezos’s private retreat, Alex Cooper drama, new MrBeast lawsuit, the OpenAI apartment, China’s ‘dark factories', Pasta sauce surveillance, and why big tech’s ‘tobacco moment’ isn’t what it seems
User Mag 4 months ago
Influencers Are Replacing Themselves With AI Clones
Anthropic girlypop dinners, new Costco Guys, BuzzBallz summer, Gen Z's silent scream, FBI aura farming, Elon Musk's TikTok, Mahjong mania, SantaCon fraud, andthe case against social media "addiction"
User Mag 4 months ago
Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down
+ Boy kibble, cyberdecks, Bierberchella, AI Michael Jackson babies, peptides overtake pickleball, dating app whimsey, deep runs, an AI storefront, YouTubers vs Apple, Claude Code whips and fairy wands
User Mag 4 months ago
They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses
+ NeeDoh squishies, Twitch for pets, Waymo influencer merch, OpenClaw crashouts, Alix Earle's skincare blowout, smut book clubs, Surf social, AI's millennial cringe problem, and Sam Altman tea
User Mag 5 months ago
Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
+ YouTube Shorts rizz party, Clavicular's Club Stream, heat islands, MrBeast's Japan pivot, Costco's chocolate bunny, Twitch streaming as a dog, and the doomed project to cancel Hasan Piker
User Mag 5 months ago
The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
+ LA's crypto kids, @user3266363816019, AI bedtime stories, slop signage, alpine divorce, a KitKat heist, the White House app, byyourselfmaxxing, and against the smartphone theory of everything
User Mag 5 months ago
The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Haven’t Noticed)
AI influencer awards season, vaping squirrels, RIP Sora, bestie-fication of media, peak MrBeast, the pop diva extinction, Zuckerberg's claw, a cowgorithm, Fortnite brain rot, LinkedIn “builder” plague
User Mag 5 months ago
The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, ‘porn addiction’ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste, supplement stacking, & how OpenClaw conquer the internet
User Mag 5 months ago
How Powerful People Became Obsessed w/ Section 230
The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harry’s Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red carpet, and secret billionaire typing patterns
User Mag 5 months ago

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