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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
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.
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
gen z and millennial looking directly into iphone camera on tiktok
The latest Gen Z vs. millennial debate is the space above your head

Features

A screenshot from Pokemon Pokopia showing a character followed by Pokemon through a bright landscape. 'Pokémon Pokopia' is the cozy escape the internet needed
stylized image of a white man with above average physical physique
The Looksmaxxing Glossary: Every term you need to understand the internet's most unhinged subculture
clavicular, a white man Who is Clavicular, and why is he everywhere right now?
screenshots of kibble tiktokts TikTok's 'Boy Kibble' trend, explained
Bad Bunny Grammys 2026 reaction meme Bad Bunny's Grammys pause is now the internet's go-to reaction meme

Videos

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?
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?"
Is ChatGPT Changing the Way We Write?
A close up of a hand holding a smartphone with the Moltbook app opened. Caption reads "No more 'unintended consequences of AI'
Moltbook's real risk isn't AI. It's your data.
A collage shows a smarphone with the TikTok logo on its screen, a Palestinian flag, and a screenshot of a TikTok DM with the word 'Epstein' not delivered.
Is U.S. TikTok censoring its users?
A collage shows Mashable associate editor Tim Marcin on the foreground, and a still of AI-generated rabbits jumping on a trampoline in the background. Caption reads: AI slop
AI slop is killing the internet
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Artist drawing caricature
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A composite of people making punch cards on TikTok
TikTok says the era of 'delulu' is over. It's time to lock in to reality.
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An image of the TikTok logo on a phone screen
Was 2016 the last good year?
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Stylized illustration of a viewer facing TV screens showing the 2016 election, a gorilla, and two rival political figures celebrating.
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A mouth with Gen Alpha slang words appearing in text bubbles around it.
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