influencers

April might be springtime in the northern hemisphere, but some of the best streaming services seem to think it’s the perfect time for a dry run of spooky season. How else to explain the arrival of some exquisitely dark slices of horror,…

“I don’t like to make a big deal out of waiting till marriage,” says De Buchi, who has traveled to over 20 countries alone. “In my friend group, everyone is. It’s very normal.” One of her friends runs an event called Hot, Holy, Healed for…

Despite all the hate it gets, anyone who's been to Coachella knows it's a damn good time.I attended once in 2024, where I was welcomed as a Coachella elder. The music is killer, if you can dodge all the influencers setting up ring cameras.…

The world of momfluencers is, to put it mildly, a highly fraught one.With the rise of trad wives like the beauty queen/rancher Hannah Neeleman, aka Ballerina Farm, as well as the 24-year-old model and mother of four Nara Smith, there’s…

The company isn’t exactly breaking new ground. The idea of a chatbot standing in for a human is fairly common. As is the idea of cashing in on it. For instance, Manhattan psychologist Becky Kennedy has built a parenting advice business that…

Early editions of the index were a tabbed notebook. “I still have some of the original versions of it,” Boyer says. “You would go through, laboriously, by hand, turning the pages, and it would say ‘see page 27,’ like one of those…

This week on Uncanny Valley, hosts Brian Barrett and Zoë Schiffer discuss the highlights from Nvidia’s annual developer conference, and why Tesla recently got in trouble with some of its most loyal fans online. Plus, Meta’s initial decision…

Mark Holman was skinny and depressed when he was working a 9-to-5 job as an air quality engineering consultant in 2018. “I felt weak, like a boy,” says the 33-year-old New Orleans native.Determined to turn things around, he spent the next…

She thinks some of these individuals will never stop running cover for the company because of their long-term investments. “To me it's a lot about the money, more about the money than it is Elon—even though they say it's Elon,” she says.No…

It’s been over 30 years since Louis Theroux was first given an opportunity to make documentaries as a reporter on Michael Moore’s TV Nation.Since then Theroux has become the preeminent documenter of the weird, the extreme, and the…