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If you’ve spent any time on TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts this year, you’ve probably felt it too: social media doesn’t feel like it did even three years ago. The way we scroll, the platforms we trust, the communities we hang out in, everything is shifting in real time. And we finally have numbers to prove it, thanks to the latest 2025 data from the Pew Research Center. The platforms we think are “dying” aren’t really dying… and the ones we think are “taking over

A photo of a young girl, her sick puppy, and a kind police officer went viral this week. A heartwarming moment that seemed to remind us what the internet used  to be about: connection, empathy, stories that make you smile. Except… it wasn’t real. People quickly noticed something off: the car’s steering wheel was on the wrong side, there was no dashboard, and no record of the story anywhere online. It was another piece of AI-generated “slop,” a fake image designed purely to g

Over the past year, AI has started to flood our social feeds , thanks to massive pushes from tech giants like OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok. These companies are racing to reinvent how we create, share, and experience online content. But as impressive as the tech can be, this new world is getting messy - fast. The Great AI Feed Takeover OpenAI’s app Sora  is one of the latest players shaking things up. It lets users generate entire videos from just a few words, and the results are

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently had a realization that’s becoming harder to ignore: social media doesn’t feel human anymore....

We all signed up for social media to connect. To share moments with friends, keep in touch, and maybe post the occasional embarrassing...

In 2004, a college kid named Mark Zuckerberg launched something called Facebook . It started off as a simple campus tool to help students...