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Siobhan Ball


Siobhan Ball is a historian, archivist, and journalist. She also writes for Autostraddle and bi.org

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  • gavin mayo and squiggles nft

    How accusations around a major NFT release sank it—and raised questions about an alleged NFT ‘ring’

    Tech

  • A man wearing a mask and carrying a flag.

    How fears of the ‘antifa apocalypse’ set the stage for QAnon

    Tech

  • Dancing baby with "The Lost History of the Internet" caption

    The many lives of the Dancing Baby, cyberspace’s first cringe meme

    Internet Culture

woman pointing finger to messed up bed and moved bench (l) white bathtub with mud inside caption "House showing aftermath" (c) woman hand out showing messed up bed (r)

‘Who were they showing this house to? Goldilocks and the three bears?’: Woman shows the aftermath of a house showing where people got into her bathtub and in her bed

'They really wanted to take it for a test drive.'

On Jul 4, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

IRL
Google Search with "desk ornament" typed in image results in Nazi images

Search results for ‘desk ornament’ show images of Nazi memorabilia across Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo

Multiple search engines show the same results.

On Jul 1, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture
woman with tattoos (l) woman with prescription drug warning background (c) young woman in car with blue hair (r)

TikTokers are flagging medications that could one day be banned because they might cause miscarriages

From heart medication to anti-depressants, concerns abound.

On Jun 27, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

IRL Tech
student in beanie and flannel walking down hallway with lockers

People are slamming a New York magazine article about a 17-year-old who shared nude photos of his girlfriend without permission

'It's amazing that you turned this kid into a victim.'

On Jun 22, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture
Man greenscreen tiktok running in Stranger Things background caption "my friends playing my favorite song to save me:" (l) Kate Bush on black background (c) Man greenscreen tiktok running in Stranger Things background caption "my friends playing my favorite song to save me" (r)

‘Stranger Things’ has introduced a whole new generation to Kate Bush—and some people are predictably mad about it

'Please tell me why we're gatekeeping a 37 year old song.'

On May 31, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture
wooden ceiling of restaurant with text overlaid (l) restaurant burgers (r)

‘WAITERS pls don’t make jokes like this’: TikToker calls out waitress for saying people with allergies and digestive disorders shouldn’t eat out

'If I ever heard a server say this I'd lose my shit it's so disrespectful.'

On May 30, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

IRL
indian woman talking to viewer (l) blonde woman talking in car and holding coffee (c) indian woman gasping (r)

‘Work is not your passion, it’s a paycheck’: TikToker says your job should only be tolerable, sparking debate

'Your full time job is doing things that make you happy, and this job is just there to help you pay for it.'

On May 23, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture IRL
Note on door caption "Please pack all clothes and ALL furniture and everything in the bedroom don't worry about the kitchen" (l) two men in masks in the house (c) the house bedroom with garbage and clothes scattered bed and shelf (r)

‘I’d decline service’: Movers share ‘the sh*t they have to deal with’ in viral TikTok

'The nerve to leave that note.'

On May 20, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture IRL
family standing in yard daughter car just pulled up caption "My sister brought her boyfriend over for the first time... she told us not to be "weird" (l) family arms up outside boyfriend walking underneath arm tunnel caption "My sister brought her boyfriend over for the first time... she told us not to be "weird" (c) family outside daughter now in middle of group caption "My sister brought her boyfriend over for the first time... she told us not to be "weird" (r)

Girl brings boyfriend to meet her family for first time, asks them not to do anything ‘weird’—it backfires

'It's giving Get Out.'

On May 12, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

IRL
Painting of naked women with caption "which looks exactly like me" (l) Angelina Poveteva painting with caption "The artist for this painting" (c) Photo of woman caption "which looks exactly like this photo of me" (r)

Model accuses artist of painting her face on a nude body without permission

'I feel worthless. I feel used.'

On Apr 5, 2022 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture

White TikToker’s Ancient Egyptian makeup spoon causes outrage

'It makes my blood boil.'

On Nov 8, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture
3 stills of a tiktok featuring a black woman experiencing street harassment

‘This is why I hate men’: Man tells TikToker her ‘a** stinks’ after she rejects him in viral TikTok

'So you gon' ignore me like that?'

On Oct 20, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture IRL
David Amess

Freedom of speech, online anonymity, concerns raised as ‘David’s Law’ gets pushed in the U.K.

Opponents call it an opportunistic attempt to further limit freedom of speech.

On Oct 20, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Tech
honey lestrange, halsey dancing at cheetahs, honey lestrange responding on a comment calling for halsey to do better

‘I was taken off stage and humiliated’: Exotic dancer accuses Halsey of cutting her off to live out ‘stripper fantasy’ in viral TikTok

She said she ended the night with $20 because of the incident.

On Oct 12, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture IRL
spent all night crying tiktok meme

This meme has TikTokers crying over a bad thing—while bragging about how hot they are

'I'm 6'3 btw'

On Oct 12, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture

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