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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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  • Man on street handing out flyers while wearing a clapboard that says "JuiceLand temporarily closed. Visit us in Austin, Houston, Dallas." Caption "VIRAL LABOR"

    How JuiceLand strikers and ride-hailing drivers are organizing online

    IRL

  • young women with phone and money in background

    ‘Love Island’ and the future of the reality TV-to-influencer pipeline

    Internet Culture

  • A man walks on an industrial pipeline.

    TikTokers are sharing their own experiences in YouTube’s ‘alt-right pipeline’

    Tech

Homepage of The Guardian

‘This is astonishing’: The Guardian removed a TERF-critical passage from an article

The deleted section is now being shared via screengrabs.

On Sep 8, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture IRL
cockroach painted onto wall

A landlord apparently painted over a cockroach in this woman’s home—and the internet turned it into a meme

Some wondered if it was still alive.

On Sep 7, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture
mark hamill sitting on his hollywood star, "mark hamill" tweet

Mark Hamill proves he can go viral by simply tweeting his own name

Other Twitter users went viral with their own Hamill tweets.

On Sep 6, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture
man smoking hookah on floatation device during flood

People are swimming in the floodwaters—here’s why you shouldn’t do that

Do you want cholera? This is how you get cholera.

On Sep 3, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture IRL
A row of house plants on a windowsill.

What’s with all these Reddit stories of men getting jealous of their partner’s plants?

The latest one involves a man asking his girlfriend to remove her plants.

On Aug 30, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture
Danny Devito as Frank Reynolds holding a bag of chips with inset tweet from Danny Devito "Support Nabisco workers striking for humane working hours, fair pay, outsourcing jobs. NO CONTRACTS NO SNACKS"

Danny DeVito briefly loses Twitter verification after tweeting support for striking Nabisco workers

Twitter has yet to offer an explanation.

On Aug 20, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture
A man talking to two women.

‘I would’ve thrown hands’: TikTok shows train passengers ridiculing man who slut-shamed woman

The passengers couldn't believe the guy's comments.

On Aug 17, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture IRL
A cartoon man laughing.

‘Reinstatement Day’ passes without Trump back in the White House

Only a very select number of people are shocked.

On Aug 13, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture Tech
woman with circular metal object on ground

TikToker finds a ‘UFO’ in her backyard—commenters see a disturbing blinking eye in it

Some people see it.

On Aug 6, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Tech
Feet standing on scuffed platform (l) visitors walking past an overflowing garbage can (c) trash on beach (r) all with caption "The labor shortage has hit Disney World"

‘The labor shortage has hit Disney’: Viral TikTok of trash scattered around Disney sparks wage, labor shortage debate

'Maybe they shouldn't have fired everybody about 6 months ago.'

On Aug 5, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture IRL
A woman crying with a mask on.

‘I’ve never felt more degraded’: TikToker says Alaska Airlines stewardess slut shamed, threatened her over outfit (updated)

Many feel the apology letter the company sent her wasn't really an apology.

On Aug 2, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

IRL
Michael Che (l) Simone Biles (r)

Micheal Che claims he was hacked after backlash over Simone Biles Instagram posts—but people aren’t buying it

Che has since deleted the post.

On Jul 30, 2021 by Siobhan Ball

Internet Culture

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