I’d stumbled across the Pine Wizard Frog—a recurring character on the official TikTok account of household cleaning fluid ...

As we say our goodbyes to 2025, we must bid adieu to the memes that came with it. It was a surreal year on the internet — many of this year’s memes leaned heavily into the brain rot that’s come with ...

SAN DIEGO — As holiday package thefts surge, videos of booby-trapped deliveries are trending on social media, but attorneys are cautioning consumers that retaliating against porch pirates could result ...

JD Vance wants the '6-7' brainrot meme trend to be banned after his 5-year-old son repeatedly said the meme at church during Bible reading The viral brainrot meme '6-7' (pronounced as six-seven) has ...

When I first heard about TikTok's new meme trend, Italian brain rot, it reminded me of Sukumar Ray's Abol Tabol, a collection of Bengali nonsense verse. Only that was literature; this is actually ...

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JD Vance wants the '6-7' brainrot meme trend to be banned after his 5-year-old son repeatedly said the meme at church during Bible reading Instagram/JD Vance @jdvance The viral brainrot meme '6-7' ...

Physicists may soon witness a cosmic fireworks show: the explosive death of a primordial black hole. Once thought to be unimaginably rare, new research suggests there’s up to a 90% chance of catching ...

Surfing is 10% skill, 90% vibes—and somewhere in there is a whole lot of hilarious wipeouts, sunburns, and people yelling “Yewww!” for no clear reason. This post features funny surfing memes that ...

Fallout season two is kicking off with a bang… Literally, if you’re one of a few unlucky people who cross paths with Mr. House or Hank MacLean. But what is that’s making people’s heads go bang? We ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...