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Rachel Kiley is a writer who sometimes writes things and sometimes is based in L.A., but is definitely always on Twitter @rachelkiley.

Rachel Kiley

Map of North America showing the name Gulf of America highlighted. A tweet over it reads: taking a page out of the republican playbook and will be refusing to recognize this name change.

Culture

The right keeps deadnaming trans people—Now the internet is ‘deadnaming’ the Gulf of Mexico (and Twitter, and HBO)

Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

Lindsey Weedston

Photo of a Man holding an Ozempic Pen; Screenshot of a Reddit headline that reads "Dad permanently blinded by Ozempic...tl;dr Long LLY, short NVO

Ozempic users on Reddit are sharing stories of sudden vision loss and blindness—and a study just found a correlation

Rebecca Leib

Drake(l) Duolingo owl(r) with text over "Say drake"(top), "Drake really got shooters the bird was dead within the hour im crying"(bottom)

‘SAY DRAKE’: Who killed the Duolingo Owl? Fans think they found their prime suspect

Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.

Anna Good

Screenshot from Reddit thread with the headline: AITA for pretending to thin beans in chili are "woke", to prank my cousin who is obsessed with being "anti woke" and who loves chili?" A bowl of chili is in the background.

‘Impeccable bit’: Guy pranks conservative cousin into thinking beans in chili are ‘woke’

Katka is a journalist who is chronically online. She uses her background in social media to surface trending content and commentary shaping contemporary internet culture. Previous bylines include HelloGiggles, Best Life, Lonely Planet, HuffPost, SheKnows and more.

Katka Lapelosa

Elon Musk, Son picking nose and donald trump in oval office with text "trump seethes as president musk's kid eats his boogers than paws his desk"

‘Trump babysitting Elon’s kid’: The internet—and Grimes—react to 4-year-old picking his nose in the White House

2 panel image: on the left side is a person and on the right is a shelf of Coca Cola soda.

‘Team Pepsi’: Rumors of Coca-Cola calling ICE on their workers ignites Latino boycott

2 panel image: both scenes from a reality TV show, on the left a person cries and on the right another person squats down in a praying position.

‘DAMN MONTOYA…. again’: Reality star José Carlos Montoya goes viral after another brutal betrayal

Women are exposing how useless their boyfriends can be in this ’emergency contact’ TikTok trend

Photo collage of a reddit thread response over a background of the USA flag and people moving around a city. Headline of reddit response says: Moved from Europe with American wife - work culture shock.

No PTO, high burnout: German man’s ‘mind blown’ response to U.S. work culture is going viral

A photo of Lori Lightfoot presenting her Superbowl spread; A tweet from user @bakerbakerbaker that reads "grab a slice of wheat bread nephew".

Years later, people still can’t get over Lori Lightfoot’s ‘criminal’ Super Bowl spread

‘Till the cops come’: Why this 85-year-old’s hand-delivered party invite has everyone talking

screenshot of a Tweet from @notcapnamerica that reads "LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"; a highlighted caption "Heads up if you order from SHEIN they are going to hold your package until they make you pay the tariff! I ordered".

‘DHL is holding my package hostage’: Trump supporter learns about SHEIN tariffs the hard way

Screenshots from Blue Sky user @crimebird of Philadelphia after the Superbowl; The Eagles Logo; Screenshot of a Blue Sky post from user @katflandermeyer that reads "funniest highlights of the Philly police scanner, a thread". Go Birds.

‘There’s an illegal DJ on the highway’: The wildest Philly police scanner highlights after the Eagles’ victory

2 panel image: on the left a pilot speaks to camera, on the right an airplane lands on a runway.

‘I wouldn’t feel comfortable with my pilot wearing braids’: A Black pilot is facing backlash for his appearance

@ panel image showing people with makeup on.