The People Who Fall in Love With ChatbotsApr 8i interviewed people who've developed emotional — even sexual — relationships with LLMs. they're not as crazy as they seem.Katherine Dee
The Soyjakkers Who Hacked 4chanMay 22the far-reaching story of soyjak.party, a deranged and meme-obsessed imageboard with outsized influenceG. B. Rango
Transmaxxing: the Incel-To-Transwoman PipelineJan 3why a community of depressed young men with nothing to lose is convinced the only way out of their misery is gender transitionSanjana Friedman
The Strange and Fascinating World of r/methApr 23a guided tour of the meth subreddit — a shadow-people-haunted forest of madness and intrigueRiver Page
The First AI Meme GodMar 27a butthole-obsessed artificial intelligence might hold the key to humanity’s future Blake Dodge
Collapse Support: The Doomsday Prophets of RedditMar 4inside the 25,000+ community of people convinced the world is coming to an end imminently, and at its most extreme, valorizes climate-anxiety suicides as martyrdomSanjana Friedman