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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Skibidi Toilet fans are melting down
by Taylor Lorenz on April 11, 2026
+ Boy kibble, cyberdecks, Bierberchella, AI Michael Jackson babies, peptides overtake pickleball, dating app whimsey, deep runs, an AI storefront, YouTubers vs Apple, Claude Code whips and fairy wands
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They're Putting AI Cameras In School Buses
by Taylor Lorenz on April 6, 2026
+ NeeDoh squishies, Twitch for pets, Waymo influencer merch, OpenClaw crashouts, Alix Earle's skincare blowout, smut book clubs, Surf social, AI's millennial cringe problem, and Sam Altman tea
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Dopamine Is Not Why Kids Love Social Media
by Taylor Lorenz on March 31, 2026
+ YouTube Shorts rizz party, Clavicular's Club Stream, heat islands, MrBeast's Japan pivot, Costco's chocolate bunny, Twitch streaming as a dog, and the doomed project to cancel Hasan Piker
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The Media Lied About the Social Media Addiction Trial
by Taylor Lorenz on March 28, 2026
+ LA's crypto kids, @user3266363816019, AI bedtime stories, slop signage, alpine divorce, a KitKat heist, the White House app, byyourselfmaxxing, and against the smartphone theory of everything
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The Internet is Being Deleted (And You Haven’t Noticed)
by Taylor Lorenz on March 24, 2026
AI influencer awards season, vaping squirrels, RIP Sora, bestie-fication of media, peak MrBeast, the pop diva extinction, Zuckerberg's claw, a cowgorithm, Fortnite brain rot, LinkedIn “builder” plague
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The Rise of Celebrity Clone Conspiracies
by Taylor Lorenz on March 20, 2026
+ Diner Gothic, LEGO slopaganda, cartel Olympics, ‘porn addiction’ influencers, a $178 Jensen Huang sweater, Afroman's 1A win, tech bro taste, supplement stacking, & how OpenClaw conquer the internet
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How Powerful People Became Obsessed w/ Section 230
by Taylor Lorenz on March 18, 2026
The clout apocalypse, YouTube face, Meghan and Harry’s Netflix fallout, MOG World Order, CEO moats, sync music, the debate over influencers on the red carpet, and secret billionaire typing patterns
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You Are Being Lied to About Algorithms
by Taylor Lorenz on March 10, 2026
+ AI Amish influencers, baby gut health, Kai Trump's Erewhon vlog, bed rotting for art, the Substack book, MrBeast banking, Quittr, a new Ellison, Ben Affleck's AI startup, Heated Rivalry fanfic drama
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How Epstein Warped the Entire Internet
by Taylor Lorenz on March 6, 2026
Mr. Beast Islam, Roblox threesoms, the Staples Baddie, Parisian slop bowls, phone away from phone, AI pervert glasses, TX primary influencer wars, and prediction markets' billionaire founders feud
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'Situation Monitoring' Products Are Flooding The Web
by Taylor Lorenz on March 2, 2026
+ Yapper ads, the Most Evil Gay Guy, pop culture OpenClaw, Gucci runway texts, Jim Carry conspiracies, #sendBaron, Zuck's $170M mansion, Opensource Palantir, and how the AIs kill
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ICE’s Plan to Monitor Social Media 24/7
by Taylor Lorenz on February 27, 2026
+ PewDiePieAI, sustainable abundance, MAGA influencers go solar, disappearing summer break, YT's newest teen sensation, giving birth on livestream, a plan to bathe entire cities in sunlight from space
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Why The Internet Is Broken
by Taylor Lorenz on February 23, 2026
+ Ai;dr, r/lanadelrey drama, total boomer luxury communism, American Girl novels, Benny Blanco livestreamer, Nicki Minaj bot farms, Slxughter, POLITICO's pink slime, and a YouTuber's fake ICE tip line
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Dumbphone Owners Have Lost Their Minds
by Taylor Lorenz on February 18, 2026
+ Burnout feminism, slop surgery, sleepcations, serftok, Meta's celeb wrangler -> OpenAI, American Girl Ozempic, chatbot cafes, Tinder voting, 13 yr old skincare CEO, how crying girls will make u rich
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They're Trying To Kill The Internet As We Know It
by Taylor Lorenz on February 9, 2026
+ Beast Banking, Clav's mogshot, a brainrot Reels slam poet, X's fake cancer cure problem, Polymarket Portal feet pics, AI Netflix, analog YouTube, Roblox ICE raids, and giving birth on Discord
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The Rise and Fall of Livestream Fail
by Taylor Lorenz on February 2, 2026
+ Moltbook mania, Minecraft protests, wellness anarchists, travelscrimping, GlamBOT controversy, Tinder for clankers, French Zohran, and escaping a Chinese Mafia crypto slavery scheme
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Can You Sue For Social Media Addiction?
by Taylor Lorenz on January 30, 2026
+ Slopagandists, WannaBeasts, r/massivecock vs ICE, America's Kill Line, peptide pushers, Boy Throb, viral armpitting, a new class of pro-Democrat dark money creators, and is Josh the new Karen?
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Why Conservatives Hate Brooklyn Beckham
by Taylor Lorenz on January 26, 2026
A Dramageddon drag show, ManyVids AI psychosis, the far right's new goth girl, 13 yr old AI founders, UpScrolled > TikTok, Rumble Shorts, IRL Heated Rivalry, and Tay Zonday takes on ICE.
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The New Satanic Panic Is Here
by Taylor Lorenz on January 23, 2026
+ Admin nights, Steal A Brainrot, GAP's AI orb, IG for fishing, influencer peptides, a16z's pro-AI creator class, and one man's journey from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump’s America
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2016 Nostalgia Slop Is Taking Over
by Taylor Lorenz on January 21, 2026
+ Contentmaxxing, soft eugenics, Heated Rivarly lookalikes, a Reddit mod meltdown, AI relationship dealbreakers, IG's force friendship, Pentagon Pokémon, & how dumb phone owners have lost their minds
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Ashley St Clair on trans rights, immigration, Elon and more
by Taylor Lorenz on January 14, 2026
+ Liquid content, choppelgangers, influencer lobbying, YouTube's vibecession, a $2,500 viral fleece, Gen Z's it vacation spot, China’s hottest app, the Diary of a CEO red pill pipeline, and Nigel Fara






