Category: Viral Trends
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Why Star Citizen and Squadron 42 Are Not a Scam
Introduction For over a decade, Star Citizen along with its single-player counterpart Squadron 42 has drawn unprecedented crowdfunding and scrutiny. Detractors often point to the prolonged development time, huge budget, and shifting release dates as evidence of something amiss. However, a closer, fact-based look reveals a project that is ambitious rather than malicious. Cloud Imperium…
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Why AI ‘art’ isn’t art
If you’re using AI because you love art, because you have ideas, or because you want to learn, then you’re already on the right track. You have the spark.
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The Positive Reclamation of ‘Weird’ and Its Disruption of Right-wing Ideology
The political Right is in conflict over being labeled as “weird” by Liberals, seeing it as an attack on their legitimacy. The term has been historically used to dehumanize marginalized groups, but is being reclaimed as a positive self-identifier. This illustrates a broader trend of redefining negative terms and highlights flaws in current Right-wing ideology.
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Q Anon And the Storm Conspiracy
Who is Q? And what exactly, is the ‘Storm Conspiracy’? For those answers we must jump down a rabbit hole called 4 Chan. So what exactly is 4 Chan? 4 Chan is an image board launched in 2003 modeled after Japanese image boards, users post anonymously and you can find anything from meme images to…
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Silly Teenager epidemics, what IS going on with our youth?
Earlier this year we saw a rash of teenagers joining in on the “Tide Pod Challenge” and while there does seem to be some truth to this story, there is also more to it than there seems. The phenomenon goes back to 2011 when people would post videos on Facebook and YouTube showing them supposedly…