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Lindsey Weber


Lindsey Weber is a writer and editor who’s worked for Flipboard, Mel Magazine, Slate, Eater, Wirecutter, Billboard, and more. She currently hosts a VR talk show called Conundrums.

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YOLO: Why isn’t Justin Bieber our new president?

Have you heard dubstep? Read the #imagine tag on Twitter? Seen the Tumblr of a person under the age of 15? Each week in YOLO, Millennial Analyst Lindsey Weber* picks a new teen trend she doesn’t quite understand and attempts to unpack it before your very eyes.

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YOLO: GIF, and not YOLO?!

Lindsey Weber bemoans the passing over of YOLO for GIF by the Oxford American Dictionary. 

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Wikipedia for the Weird: List of Solar System bodies formerly regarded as planets

Pluto isn’t the only planet to get demoted. 

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Did Chet Haze have a Reddit account, deny it, and then delete (most of) it?

Is Tom Hanks’ infamous son a closet redditor? 

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HeTexted crowdsources the meaning of your text messages

Need help cracking a vague text message? This website is here to help. 

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Wikipedia for the Weird: Glossary of manias

When will Wikipedia finally acknowledge that Biebermania is real?

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Can Klout scores predict box office success?

The Daily Dot predicts the probable success of three upcoming films based on Klout scores and Twitter followers.  

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YOLO: “Bom Bom” hypnotizes

Could this hit single by Sam and the Womp be the next “Gangnam Style”?

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Wikipedia for the Weird: Secret_Service_codename

President George W. Bush got stuck with a misspelling of everyone’s favorite blogging platform—”Tumbler.”

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YOLO: In praise of Steve Roggenbuck

Poet and vlogger turned the YOLO lifestyle into his own form of art. 

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Is Lindsay Lohan the celebrity version of @horse_ebooks?

Some recent eccentric tweets by the actress have drawn comparisons to a popular spambot that tweets random book fragments.

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Taking the Internet IRL: Inside the Ca$hcat$.biz art show

Daily Dot contributing writer Lindsey Weber shares her inside perspective on a Tumblr-sponsored art show celebrating Ca$hCat$.biz, the Web’s premier destination for pictures of cats with money.

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YOLO: Online gang deals in klout

It’s all kind of a big joke. Except that it isn’t.

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Wikipedia for the Weird: List of music considered the worst

Even Wikipedia considers Duran Duran’s Thank You to be the worst. 

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The Daily Dot’s fitness challenge: A guide to body-moving memes

Load up some Rick Astley on the boombox and get ready to Sweat To The Memes™.

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