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The article reviews the documentary 'Poster Boy: Becoming Zyzz,' exploring the life of Aziz Shavershian, an internet bodybuilder whose rise foreshadowed the looksmaxxing movement and influencer culture.
A viral tweet highlights a collection of Indian nostalgia websites that recreate memories of barbershops, chai stalls, bus rides, and 90s music, listing dozens of such indie sites.
An interview with cyber-ethnographer Ruby Thelot about why virality is an outdated metric for understanding online trends, the balkanization of the internet, and how phenomena like dating burnout are misread.
An essay celebrating the non-corporate, original-style web of the 1990s and early 2000s, advocating for personal websites, simple design, and indie web practices, while criticizing modern corporate takeover and AI hype.
The article discusses the validity of the dead internet theory, a conspiracy suggesting that most online activity and content are generated by bots and AI.
A Verge column discusses the reactions to biohacker Bryan Johnson's autoimmune disease diagnosis, examining the lack of empathy and schadenfreude from wellness influencers.
WIRED Book Club hosts a livestream with author Carlos Barragán and senior writer Kate Knibbs to discuss romance scams in Nigeria, based on Barragán's book 'The Yahoo Boys'.
The Vergecast episode explores how social media feeds are dominated by clipped content and algorithmic brute force, and also reviews the new Fitbit Air fitness tracker and discusses smart glasses as a product category.
Jason Koebler explores the mental toll of navigating an internet saturated with AI-generated content, coining the term 'Zombie Internet' to describe the complex, exhausting mix of humans, bots, and AI agents interacting online.
AOL shuts down its innovative Nullsoft division in 2004, marking the end of an era for founder Justin Frankel and tools like Winamp and Gnutella.