If you had any doubt that social media have taken over our lives, the words of the year (WOTY) for 2025 will dispel it—with ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Breaking news: A new target of conservative cancel culture just dropped, and its “tudum” has got right-wingers clutching their pearls. Over the weekend, conservative commentator Jeff Younger fired up ...

If you've spent any amount of time online, you've likely encountered rage bait, and may not even know it. But rage bait is becoming much more common, according to the Social Switch Project, to the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth elicited rage from his critics after posting a photo of a children’s book character firing missiles at boats with the caption, “For your Christmas wish list.” Hegseth’s ...

Rage bait is focused on making viewers lose their cool The other day, Jennifer Lawrence did the classic example of what it means to rage bait. A self-professed rage baiter as she herself says, the ...

Previous words of the year include "podcast," "goblin mode" and "brain rot." The Oxford University Press has selected "rage bait" as its word of the year, in a nod to how easily digital indignation ...

Do you find yourself getting increasingly irate while scrolling through your social media feed? If so, you may be falling victim to rage bait, which Oxford University Press has named its word or ...

ThioJoe tells the story of how one meme ended up saving hundreds of computer monitors. Trump orders the closure of Venezuelan airspace Macaulay Culkin Talks About 'Home Alone' Accident That Left Him ...

Trolling people is an art form, and a lot of people just don’t have the talent or the drive it takes to really do it well. So when you find someone who is putting real skill and effort into ...