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Charli xcx: from slow burn pop star to ‘brat’ US election influencer

The British musician’s new album is everywhere but it took her 15 years to go from Myspace to the White House

The Guardian - UK

Forget TikTok and Instagram, Gen Z is on Noplace

And it looks like Myspace cranked up to 11.

Creative Bloq

Kate Nash looks back: ‘I trusted the wrong people with my money and had to move back in with my parents; 15 female wrestlers saved me ...’

The musician and actor on living with OCD, having heart surgery, and surviving the tornado of the past 12 years

The Guardian - UK

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Charli XCX: ‘Labels are desperate for artists to be liked, otherwise you’re bad, evil and wrong’

Straddling the underground and the mainstream, the pop star long felt like an outsider. She talks about finding her crowd, her ‘blunt’ new album, and complicated female friendships

The Guardian - UK

“Whale Tail”: 40 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day

Trends come and go, leaving us cringing at our old photos sporting frosted tips or grinning in a room decked out with Beanie Babies. The post “Whale Tail”: 40 Millennial Trends People Still Cringe At To This Day first appeared on Bored Panda.

Bored Panda

How the porn bots took over Twitter

Twitter has long had a bot problem, but since moderation on the platform was gutted and paid users were given "prioritization" in replies, the landscape has changed.

WEKU

Reexamining the 'upskirt decade' and the public ridicule of female pop stars

The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye.

WEKU

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Dìdi review – a tender, specific rendering of adolescence on the early internet

Sundance film festival: Sean Wang’s semi-autobiographical tale of an Asian American teen’s life played out online in 2008 is moving and detailed

The Guardian - US

From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'

If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In fact, there has been a whole lot of action in the last 12 months.

WEKU

Why Elon Musk is obsessed with casting X as the most 'authentic' social media platform

With X, formerly known as Twitter, hitting the one-year anniversary of Elon Musk’s US$44 billion takeover of the social media platform, it can feel disorienting to try to make sense of all that’s gone down.

The Conversation

Myspace documentary to follow the rise and fall of the Y2K social media platform

Myspace was the world’s largest social network site until 2009

Evening Standard

"We thought it was funny, and then there were articles in The Guardian and The New York Times. It was on Fox News!". We interviewed Attack Attack!, the band behind that insane 2008 MySpace 'crabcore' trend

When Attack Attack! filmed a video for their song Stick Stickly, a certain crustacean-aping movement went instantly viral

Metal Hammer

Myspace Seems To Be Making A Comeback W/ This New App So Hope You’re Ready To Ruin Friendships

Yes, there's a Top 8.

Pedestrian.tv

MySpace turns 20: 5 things we still miss in the age of Twitter's meltdown

MySpace was launched exactly 20 years ago today – here are the main things we miss about the pre-Facebook beast of social networks.

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MSN Messenger needs to return in Windows 12 to take on WhatsApp and iMessage

With many using WhatsApp, Telegram, and more, it’s high time for one of the best messaging apps to return for Windows 12.

The Guardian - UK

Threads review: Twitter without the rough edges or news

Site has potential to suck the remaining life – and advertising revenue – out of Musk’s struggling network

Metal Hammer

"Oklahoma City bomb, Kurt Cobain, Pokémon, Tiger Woods, MySpace, Monsanto GMOs": Fall Out Boy update Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire, revisit 34 years of history and pop culture

Fall Out Boy make up their own new lyrics to Billy Joel's 1989 hit We Didn't Start The Fire, reference everything from Kurt Cobain and Pokemon, to Donald Trump and Elon Musk

TechRadar

Instagram's new music-sharing status feels like the return of MySpace

Share your favorite musical artists on Instagram's Notes

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"It's all Steve Harris's fault!": Everything you need to know about Germany's Eurovision entry Lord Of The Lost

They've met the King of England, supported Iron Maiden and tried to send butt-plugs to the Pope: meet Germany's 2023 Eurovision contestants Lord Of The Lost

Al Jazeera

Facebook has 3 billion users, but younger users quitting platform

More than a third of the world’s population is on Facebook but it still finds itself in a battle for relevancy.

Chicago Sun-Times

Facebook, nearing 20, has 3 billion users. Many of them are old.

But it says it isn’t dead or just for “old people,” as critics have said for years. The social media platform, born before the iPhone, is approaching two decades in existence.

The Independent UK

Facebook has 3 billion users. Many of them are old.

Facebook says it is not dead

WEKU

Why can't Twitter and TikTok be easily replaced? Something called 'network effects'

The Guardian - UK

Best podcasts of the week: The man who robbed 12 banks to pay for IVF, in his own words

In this week’s newsletter: Hear the whole story of how a British man turned bank robber looted a dozen San Diego banks in Time with Mr Reed. Plus: five of the best podcasts for indie music fans

The Conversation

What happens to our data when we no longer use a social media network or publishing platform?

The internet plays a central role in our lives. I — and many others my age — grew up alongside the development of social media and content platforms.

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