Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Queer friends siting around a table looking at a cell phone. The social media landscape has become a toxic wasteland full of ...

Hopecore is a relatively new meme trend on TikTok where folks are posting feel-good videos of wholesome clips edited together to audio by various popular musicians. The Hopecore meme trend began on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Born on TikTok and now spreading across every corner of social media, Hopecore is less a trend and more a collective exhale. It’s ...

Garbage pollutes the internet like a New York curbside nowadays. Social media is devolving into a wasteland of conspiracy ...

In the past couple of weeks, I have seen a rise of “corecore” or “nichecore” TikToks on my For You page. Though that is not the focus of this article, from these two trends a subcategory of sorts has ...

Wanting was enough. For me, it was enough to live for the hope of it all. If there are any TikToks I am hoping to see at least once on my “For You” page every day, it’s the “Hopecore” videos that have ...

As the first generation to grow up fully submerged in internet culture, Gen Z—folks born between 1997 and 2012—are aware of the duality of social media’s negative effects and its necessity in everyday ...

If you’ve spent any time scrolling through the infinite algorithmically generated short-form video on social media, you’ve likely come across Evan Lo’s music. Characterized by soaring guitar tones and ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...