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The Daily Dot

<p>Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.</p>


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Charlotte Colombo

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“It should be mandatory to put an AI label”: Viewers crushed to learn popular retirement home account with millions of views is entirely fake

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Entertainment

Ryan Coogler is rebooting “The X-Files” and fans can’t wait—here’s everything we know

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Culture

“Immediately using this”: What is a Slopper? The AI insult about people too obsessed with ChatGPT

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Social media users are showing off their annual “boo baskets” again this year, but what are they?

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What we know about KJ Apa’s side project Mr. Fantasy

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Can playing “The Legend of Zelda”  really improve your mental health? Science says yes

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“Every artist has at least one skip”: TikTok discovers the 2019 Paul McCartney track “Fuh You,” goes viral

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“We’ve all been there”: What is “Shrekking?” The Gen Z dating trend, explained

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“A cultural takeover”: It looks like the Gap and Katseye won this year’s denim ad war, after all

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“It’s like a toxic boyfriend, I swear”: Tana Mongeau takes to TikTok to explain her on-again-off-again relationship with Mounjaro

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There might not be a “song of the summer” this year, but these TikTok hits fill the void

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Producer explains how YouTube and 20-year-olds are a key part to the “KPop Demon Hunters” success

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“Nonsense”: A youth-oriented “Wizard of Oz” reboot is coming from Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton—fans react

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“No thanks”: Spotify announced a new DM feature, and social media is making the same joke

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“Summer 2016 was fun”: Gen Z’s nostalgia for 2016 brings a flood of memories from “the last good year and the first bad year”