digital-culture
The Inside Story of ‘8-Minute Abs’
Jaime Brenkus tells us how his innocuous 1990s workout video became a national phenomenon — and remains one of YouTube’s top exercise videos
What It’s Like to Be a Guy Named Riley Reid
‘I kept receiving requests from men I didn’t know, who kept saying they wanted to have sex with me. After a while, I stopped checking my inbox altogether.’
For Lonely Stoners, Wake and Bake YouTubers Are the Perfect Digital Smoking Buddies
Yet despite their popularity, YouTube is trying hard to scrub them from the platform
YouTube’s Failure to Address ‘Restricted Eating’ Videos Is Perpetuating Eating Disorder Subculture
Unlike Instagram or Tumblr, anorexia content on the platform goes mostly unchecked
