Drake Maye is enjoying an MVP-caliber season, taking the New England Patriots to the playoffs with a 14-3 record. The 23-year-old has taken the internet by storm—not because of his brilliant in-field ...

2026’s first viral meme has birthed an iconic catchphrase for nonchalance in the new year Luke Chinman is a writer at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE in 2024. His work has previously appeared in The ...

A TikTok user’s esoteric comment created a confusing viral moment. By Madison Malone Kircher There’s a TikTok user who goes by Tamara who is marking 2026 using 365 buttons. How is Tamara doing that ...

The original idea appeared to be using one button (as in the fastener used on clothing) to meditate on the passage of time each day of the year, a trend that popped up on TikTok in late 2025. TikTok ...

January 5, 2026 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Credit: @idontevenoah, Warner Bros, @heather34897 - TikTok A weekly deep dive into the current trends, slang, ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

When you search “Madame Morrible” on Google and it responds with “Flip it around — did you mean Wicked Witch?”, you know a TikTok meme has officially gone too far … or just far enough. If you’ve been ...

Why has Jon Hamm been dancing in ecstasy all over your Instagram and TikTok feeds lately? Well, it's a story that starts with an Apple TV show from earlier this year and ends with Millennial nostalgia ...

As we say our goodbyes to 2025, we must bid adieu to the memes that came with it. It was a surreal year on the internet — many of this year’s memes leaned heavily into the brain rot that’s come with ...