I’m a 73-year-old TikTok influencer who has an agent and multiple brand deals. Here’s how I became the internet’s ‘grandma.’

Barbara Costello runs the TikTok account @brunchwithbabs. Rikki Snyder Barbara Costello and her daughter run the TikTok account @brunchwithbabs. She never expected to have so many followers and brand deals, but now she has an agent and cookbook. She said you have to have a lot of passion if you want to succeed as an […]

Book tells the inside story of how Reddit came to be the Internet’s “id”

Enlarge / Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (credit: Getty Images) Entrepreneurs Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman famously founded Reddit as college roommates in 2005. Tech journalist Christine Lagorio-Chafkin’s recent book, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory, follows their sometimes rocky relationship as Reddit grew from a simple, user-directed […]

A woman films her grandfather’s reaction every time she visits him and it’s melting the internet’s heart

Jennifer Barclay/ Twitter Jennifer Barclay of Scotland visits her grandfather, Robert, every week and films him greeting her at the door. She created a compilation video of his adorable reaction to her arrivals and posted it to Twitter.  The video has now been viewed over eight million times.  A woman in Scotland is capturing the […]

The Internet’s favorite car of 2018 is the Kia Stinger GT, and it’s good

Enlarge / The 2018 Kia Stinger GT. (credit: Jonathan Gitlin) Every year there will be one or two new cars that generate a whole lot of buzz. Cars that generate hype. Cars that people who post on Internet forums salivate over. I’m not talking hand-built exotica with 600 horsepower and six-digit price tags; that kind […]