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Ilana Gordon is a culture and entertainment writer based in Los Angeles. Ilana&#8217;s writing has been featured in places like: the A.V. Club, the Takeout, Atlas Obscura, Huffington Post, McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency, the Belladonna Comedy, Reductress, Mashable, the Second City Network, RedEye Chicago, ART + marketing, the Muse, Dose and OMGFacts.

Ilana Gordon

2 image split. Woman in kitchen on left. Blurred image of grits sushi on right.

Culture

‘Please stop I’m begging you’: ‘Southern sushi’ recipe with cold grits stuns the internet

Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

Lindsey Weedston

2 image split. Japanese filmmaker, Hayao Miyazaki, looking tired, hands over head, eyes closed, holding glasses, with cigarette in mouth on left. AI recreation on right.

AI turned war photos into Ghibli scenes. Fans say Miyazaki would be horrified

Susan is a freelance writer following humanity one UGC at a time.

Susan LaMarca

‘They’re always toeing that line’: Advocate breaks down the 5 subtle signs your partner is ‘silent cheating’

Katka is a journalist who is chronically online. She uses her background in social media to surface trending content and commentary shaping contemporary internet culture. Previous bylines include HelloGiggles, Best Life, Lonely Planet, HuffPost, SheKnows and more.

Katka Lapelosa

Photo of a Walmart store, screenshot of a Facebook post from user Dani Davis alongside a 'feeling lost' emoticon, with text reading, "So.... for those of you that don't know. My employment at Wal-Mart has been terminated after 7 years."

‘He was fully IN the restroom’: This 6’4″ woman says she was mistaken for trans and fired from Walmart. Now she’s speaking out

Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

Anna Good

Photo of a couple at a romantic dinner with the caption "AITAH for exposing my wife's affair at our anniversary dinner?".

‘They think I went too far’: Man finds out wife is cheating—then makes a brutal toast at their anniversary dinner

3 panel image: left to right - two people sit, a person leans forward, and a person tries on a cowboy hat.

The comeback of lavender marriages: TikTok, taxes, and tired singles

Screenshot from Netflix's Adolescence Official Trailer; Screenshot of Tiktok user @rchlprker with the caption "HOW to discuss the Red Pill Pipeline with your sons.."

She ‘de-pilled’ her son: Mom goes viral for calmly dismantling her son’s red pill logic, one question at a time

Rebecca Leib

3 panel image: showing 3 people dealing with the British Tea Time alarm.

‘I’m being gaslit by an entire country’: Our friends across the pond are taking the piss with the ‘British tea time alarm’ TikTok trend

2 panel image: on the left is the original Distracted Boyfriend meme and on the right is an AI recreation in the style of Studio Ghibli.

Everyone’s turning memes and pics into Studio Ghibli art—here’s how it works

2 panel image: on the left a person explains, text over: and that is motherhood. On the right is a comment from a TikTok user.

‘Son hates bagels but loves bread donuts’: 20 moms share the wildest food rebrands that get their kids to eat anything

Left: Assassin's Creed screenshot, Right: screenshot of Elon Musk tweets calling Hasan Piker a 'sellout'

‘Double kill’: Assassin’s Creed ratioing Elon Musk on his own platform has social media in shambles

A tweet from Collin Rugg against a background of the Egyptian pyramids.

The underground city under the Giza Pyramids isn’t real—but AI makes it easy to believe

3 panel image showing influencer Ashton Hall's morning routine. In the left he grabs a bottle of water, in the middle he mouth washes, and on the right he runs.

Ashton Hall’s morning routine sequel is here—and the internet is already picking it apart

Left: Screenshot from Tiktok user @vsg_to_mj with the caption "She doesn't know it yet but he had a new baby with another woman 3 weeks before this"; Center: Screenshot from Tiktok user @twincrediblesfam with the caption: "She doesn't know it yet but she's about to find out both those babies on her hips have cancer"; Right: Screenshot from Tiktok user @racheljane8 with the caption "She doesn't know it yet, but in 5 minutes time, she's going to trip over a gate stopper, break her pelvis, dislocate her hip and find herself left permanently disabled".

‘She doesn’t know it yet…’: The TikTok trend about the curveballs life throws at you

LefT: screenshot from X user @kirawontmiss of a coach pulling a young basketball players hair; Right: Screenshot of the player's teammate pointing at the coach.