Новости за 14.04.2021

Hello! Every week, our internet culture staff will discuss the world of streaming entertainment in this newsletter. In this edition:

Some 13 months after the coronavirus pandemic closed doors to most movie theaters, music venues, and stadiums, widespread vaccination rollouts are finally allowing things to open back up. Of course, vaccines or not, it goes without saying that we're all still going to be living with COVID-19 health and safety protocols for the indefinite future. And though that's understandable, the Staples Center in Los Angeles raised eyebrows this week after announcing its own reopening guidelines.

A viral TikTok video shows two white men ridiculing and making racist comments toward a woman who says she offered them face masks at an airport. 

Last week, Taylor Swift released Fearless (Taylor’s Version), the first rerecorded album that’ll give her control of her older music. After folklore and evermore, it’s the third Swift album we’ve gotten in less than a year, but is it possible that we might end up getting a fourth Swift album in the span of a year? Based on her recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, some fans seem to think so.

Pro-police accounts on social media are posting the personal details of demonstrators arrested during protests over the shooting of Daunte Wright.

A viral TikTok video shows a "Karen" exposer blasting a white teacher for confiscating a durag from a student and calling it "pantyhose." The teacher says she took the item from a white student.

Meme thieves Fuck Jerry earned their dubious reputation by plagiarizing content creators and stealing memes. 

Business Insider recently published a story with a headline that had had a lot of millennials shrieking as they saw that the newest thing we're being blamed for is buying too many houses.

A TikToker discovered a breakup-worthy detail about her boyfriend after taking a DNA test he gifted her. 

TikToker Katelyn Paige has released her own "Christian" version of Lil Nas X's "Montero (Call Me By Your Name)," and it's the exact mixture of embarrassing and disrespectful that you'd expect.

Pop music icon Madonna shut down an actual Karen on Tuesday for criticizing her remarks about the shooting of Daunte Wright.

There are few kinks quite as popular online as hypnosis.

Erotic hypnosis, or hypnokink, involves sexual and/or erotic gratification from undergoing hypnosis. Gaming seems to transfer pretty well to the kink; is there a better way to enter a trance state than repeating the same few tasks over and over again?

Nyx Gaming, a hypnosis game development team, seems to agree. Founded in late December, Nyx Gaming is part kinky development studio and part hypnokink performance art created... Читать дальше...