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Aja Romano is a geek culture reporter and fandom expert. Their reporting at the Daily Dot covered everything from Harry Potter and anime to Tumblr and Gamergate. Romano joined Vox as a staff reporter in 2016.

Aja Romano

Tyler Oakley is a bigger fangirl than you

Daily Dot Contributor

Entertainment

The online history of the Chris Brown-Frank Ocean beef

Bad Lip Reading takes on Beyoncé’s inauguration performance

The Book of Sarth: An interactive cyberpunk tale

Serial song theft on “Glee”? Jonathan Coulton wasn’t the first

Tim Heidecker crashes Dennis Miller’s Reddit AMA

Best Roof Talk Ever presents: A Northern Soul Love Story

YouTube Guide: “Whites Only Laundry”

51 GIFs to celebrate Jim Carrey’s 51st birthday

Fernando Alfonso III served as an early Reddit and 4chan reporter and the Daily Dot’s first art director until 2016. He’s gone on to report at Lexington’s Herald-Leader and at the Houston Chronicle.

Fernando Alfonso III

4chan schemes to get rapper Lil B to the Grammys

Reddit screenwriter cut out of his own movie

Gary Busey is now the world’s leading expert on Hobbits

Chase Hoffberger reported on YouTube, web culture, and crime for the Daily Dot until 2013, when he joined the Austin Chronicle. Until late 2018, he served as that paper’s news editor and reported on criminal justice and politics.

Chase Hoffberger

YouTube’s oldest cat video, courtesy of Thomas Edison

Fidel Martinez is a web culture and politics reporter. His work for the Daily Dot focused on Reddit and YouTube.

Fidel Martinez

Twitter parody reduces BuzzFeed to its essence

49 Nicolas Cage GIFs to celebrate Nicolas Cage’s 49th birthday