Photo editing apps used to let you do things like fix red eyes in pictures, but now they let you do absolutely anything you want to pictures, using filters to add makeup or Photoshop-like programs to whittle away at the image of your body. Altering pictures to such a radical extent is not good for […] More
People just love doing stupid things. Last year it was eating Tide Pods, and this year it’s the “Bird Box Challenge,” a social-media stunt based on the Netflix movie of the same name in which people don blindfolds like Sandra Bullock does in the film. The obvious problem here is that people rendering themselves blind could […] More
People naturally want to impress their dates, but this dude’s plan ended up ruining his whole evening. A guy posted in the subreddit “Today I F**ked Up” a detailed, hilarious story of how he pretended to have an onion allergy while on a date in order to force the restaurant to give him the freshest […] More
Language is not set in stone; it’s continuously changing and evolving. It’s marvelous how new words come into existence and old words take on new meanings. And we’re all for it! But there are some words that just get used way too much. It’s like overexposure with celerities—someone skyrockets to fame and is seen everywhere, […] More
Hey, you know that awesome viral video where the ex-Nasa engineer designs and sends into the world the amazing glitter bomb package meant to get revenge on package thieves? Yeah, it turns out that’s not exactly real. I was going to go into a rant about how we can’t seem to have just one good, nice […] More
Even in this (somewhat) enlightened day and age, moms breastfeeding their babies in public is still controversial. There are people who honestly believe that it’s inappropriate, mostly because it involves exposing the mom’s boobs partially, and as we all know, boobs are not viewed by most as milk machines, they’re viewed as sexual objects. That’s […] More
Some people think they deserve it all and shouldn’t have to pay for any of it. Sure, money is tight for almost everyone (not that 1 percent, though!) and you can’t blame a person for haggling a bit, but some people really have all the nerve. And even when something is free, they demand all […] More
In a tweet that’s gone massively viral, 21-year-old Kathryn Hasty included a picture of a nearly bare apartment, with just a chair and a TV, and wrote, “guys really live in apartments like this and don’t see any issue.” guys really live in apartments like this and don’t see any issue pic.twitter.com/c7FQqgDgov — kat hasty […] More
A woman who had been ignoring repeated texts from a man received one from him that said “wrong text” but it was pretty clear he’d done it on purpose. And it definitely belongs in the Fake Wrong Text Hall of Fame. Mariah White of Arlington, TX, told BuzzFeed News that she’d been getting the texts […] More
Oh, drunk people. They can be so charming and yet so awful. The best and also the worst. And when it comes to inappropriate, drunk people are really in their element. They do and say so many ridiculous things. Thankfully, we now have a way of sharing our favorite “things drunks people said” quotes—the Texts […] More
Not all women are the same, and it’s best not to stereotype us. HOWEVER, there are certain things about women that do seem to hold true for most women. Like having men explain things to them unprompted. And having guys yell about your ass even when you’re in a knee-length puffy coat. And all the […] More
There is a reason we need sex ed in this country. Well, there are actually many reasons, not least among them the prevention of unwanted pregnancy and awareness of STDs. But we also need it because, clearly, without it, people are beyond confused about how women’s bodies work. Here’s the thing: women’s bodies are very […] More
