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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

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Shanghai woman posts Instagram photos leading up to alleged suicide

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HereFeed creates beautiful heatmaps out of Instagram photos

Miles Klee is a novelist and web culture reporter. The former editor of the Daily Dot’s Unclick section, Klee’s essays, satire, and fiction have appeared in Lapham’s Quarterly, Vanity Fair, 3:AM, Salon, the Awl, the New York Observer, the Millions,  and the Village Voice. He&#8217;s the author of two odd books of fiction, &#8216;Ivyland&#8217; and &#8216;True False.&#8217;

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5-year-old Disney star gets death threats when her show introduces same-sex couple

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Being John Cusack: Check out the trippy Instagram account the actor is tied to

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Another study says what we already know: Teens are over Facebook

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Outdated copyright law makes memes illegal in Australia

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This is how you hack those punching bag arcade games

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4chan makes life hell for a teen who put a gun to his dog’s head

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‘Must Be the Honey’ is the most embarrassing rebrand ever

Based in Montreal, Kris Holt has been writing about technology and web culture since 2010. He writes for Engadget and Tech News World, and his byline has also appeared in Paste, Salon, International Business Times, Mashable, and elsewhere.

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Day care workers fired after mocking kids on Instagram

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Hot Dog Legs is the Tumblr of the summer

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Model allegedly forced into sex slavery by man she met on Instagram

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Vine and the art of 6-second comedy

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