User Mag A tech and online culture publication by Taylor Lorenz, featuring original reporting on how the internet is reshaping politics, business, media, and culture.
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An Algorithm-Free Feed for $1,999/month
by Taylor Lorenz on November 24, 2025
+ Rizbulla, News Daddy, 9/11 for MAGA accounts, Phonk aesthetics, William Banks' latest stunt, a baguette recession, brand apologies, DOGE death, skincare Drybar, & wool of gay sheep passes woke test
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The Brands Propping Up Right Wing YouTube
by Taylor Lorenz on November 22, 2025
+ TheoBros, nation wide quarter zip meetups, family logos, advent calendar mania, Cluely's Carrie era, natsec moms, MS Now face, and a slop tax
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The MAGA Internet Meltdown Down Over Epstein w/ Brace Belden
by Taylor Lorenz on November 19, 2025
+ The Quarter Zip lifestyle, Nathan Fielder on Raya, MrBeast's theme park, Dasha Nekrasova's downfall, Labubu stocks, ChatGPT group chats, and the Charlie Kirk tribute song taking over Spotify
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The Anti-AI Grift + College Football Surveillance
by Taylor Lorenz on November 16, 2025
+ The great Kirkification Pop the Balloon dating, AI childbirth, apocalypse capitalism, Costco singles night, Vine 2.0, Trump Clinton shippers, flipping the camera, and a Ralph Lauren x-mas
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How Sydney Sweeney Lost The Culture War
by Taylor Lorenz on November 12, 2025
+ Certified Bangers, the Great Yassification, Nike’s non-binary furry, UES mama meltdown, the forehead kiss of doom and despair, human safari hunting trips, and the secret radical history of Santacon
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Right-wing influencers earn higher fees for sponsored posts than left-wing counterparts
by Taylor Lorenz on November 10, 2025
Sora strangulations, Slurmcore, Bearista breakdowns, a skincare line for 3 yr olds, fitness influencers' hotness problem, MrBeast + Dealbook, Rizzwiches, how far ChatGPT will *really* go
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Billionaires including Mark Cuban are backing a high stakes legal plot to destroy Citizens United
by Taylor Lorenz on November 3, 2025
+ 85% of top news content creators are men, Dare Market, AI podcast clones, frontal lobe breakups, AI generated Billboard hits, Curtis Silwa's babygirlification, PewDiePie vibe coding, racist TikToks
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Zohran hosted the first ever candidate press conference exclusively for content creators
by Taylor Lorenz on October 29, 2025
The event reached more than 77.3 million users across social platforms.
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Andrew Cuomo is going all in on MAGA influencers
by Taylor Lorenz on October 27, 2025
+ Ghost posts, Bestie Epstein, Gen Z's 'going out top,' Razzlekhan released, anti-facial recognition glasses, a new streamer award show, Eric Adams on Ziwe, goth girl autumn, & real estate's slop era
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Can Twitch Survive? CEO Dan Clancy at Twitchcon
by Taylor Lorenz on October 23, 2025
+ Vibe lifing, the GTA 6 twerk button, NBA ASMR, bricked smartbeds, YouTubers at the Pentagon, Musk's robot army, Sora pet videos, gooning mania, and inside MrBeast’s $100M day in court
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Livestreaming as the antidote to AI
by Taylor Lorenz on October 21, 2025
+ Long Halloween, Sora fetish content, Japan’s floptok icon, Trump vs Harry Sisson, Sombr drama, phone bans in bars, Group 7, AnthPo’s undercover stunt, and the tech right’s new Phyllis Schlafly
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10 things that will get you labeled as a terrorist by the government
by Taylor Lorenz on October 17, 2025
+ Taliban influencers, H00pify's Airbnb fiasco, statue-maxxing, MrBeast banking, Cava's dating show, Heineken vs AI, ByteDance's chatbot, and an intimacy coordinator film festival
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Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For
by Taylor Lorenz on October 15, 2025
The backlash that Piker is facing shows the consequences of a world where everyone is constantly being recorded and our internet is built to reward outrage and controversy.
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From A Double Life Sentence to MAGA Influencer Fame
by Taylor Lorenz on October 8, 2025
An IRL vibe coding battle, 6-7 meme coin, cosmic pink iPhones, ChatGPT hasbara, meet Lemonade Stand, CougerTok, party gap dating, JD Vance's TikToks and the 'anti-woke’ power grab
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The AI Slop-pocalypse
by Taylor Lorenz on October 1, 2025
+ Hawk Tuah's Twitch pivot, New Face syndrome, Gen Z divorcés, Sam Altman shoplifting slop, cockroach spies, brain rot pop, Forbes vs a gun violence activist, and how 'I’ve Had It' is going mainstream
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Nepal's Gen Z Uprising Is A Bigger Deal Than You Think
by Taylor Lorenz on September 29, 2025
+ Moflin mania, cozy cardio, MrBeast trapped a man inside a burning house, $30k baby names, Ezra vs Ta-Nehisi, heavy soda, r/twinpeaks slop, frutarians, and Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world
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Influencers Are Doing Free PR For Authoritarian Countries
by Taylor Lorenz on September 25, 2025
+ AI kids, Nick Fuentes' YouTube return, memecoins come to the stock market, Roblox vs Italian Brainrot, Sit at the Bar September, IG's next era, DARPA's insect robots, sexy Grinch TikTok ornament ads
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Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk's AI resurrection
by Taylor Lorenz on September 23, 2025
+ Rapture day blues, Black looksmaxxing, 5120 x 1080 IG videos, Kamala Harris joins Substack, a workslop tsunami, the most prolific anti-5G arsonist, and Michigan tries to criminalize ASMR
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Conservatives Are Doxxing Innocent People Over Charlie Kirk
by Taylor Lorenz on September 15, 2025
Right wing influencers are blasting people's names and personal details out to millions before ever verifying their claims.
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Let's talk about 'political violence'
by Taylor Lorenz on September 12, 2025
Political violence has escalated over the past five years, but not in the way politicians are characterizing it.






