Alyssa Bereznak

The platform has partnered with its critics — which may make it harder to know if its brain trust’s efforts are effective

It might feel like the photo-sharing platform is a better Yelp, but beware its faulty clutches

This week, The Ringer explores how the “on demand” model has changed the way we consume TV, film, food, products, and, well, almost everything. Consumers have both adjusted to the streaming era and dictated how businesses operate in its wake. Our On-Demand Week stories grapple with how this shift came to be — and what it means for the future of tech, culture, and how we access both. Find all the stories here. “One second, I just need to finish up posting these,” Marissa Johnson told me as she ba…

This 16-year-old explores the vast world of Garfield collectibles and shares the wealth with the internet

An avalanche of negative press eventually forced investors’ hands

The perpetrators of this pervasive issue are offering fixes instead of listening to their victims

Ever since Candace Payne donned the now-famous mask, one writer has been following her story via Google News alerts

Everywhere you go online, video apps look the same

A guide to the movies, books, and music that shaped the early-millennial masterpiece

The Crypto Castle is a living-space-slash-party-house for some of tech’s youngest currency millionaires. We went there in the middle of Bitcoin’s wild run.

Growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, Kuranda Elwood was always captivated by astrology. She took comfort in flipping through magazines and locating their horoscope sections, where she would read what was in store for Capricorn that month. By the time she turned 16, she began to wonder if there was more to the practice than the simple sun signs she read about in print. After some cursory online investigation, Elwood landed in a star-spangled, cosmic-leaning subset of Tumblr, immersed in a vas…

AI-enabled technologies were the stars of the show this year—often at the expense of their human competitors

The company that made hotels outdated has introduced new features to make homes more like … hotels. What will that mean for hosts, and for their communities?

In the wake of yet another contestant on ‘The Bachelorette’ having his controversial Twitter behavior outed, it’s worth asking: If social media stalking is a normal part of dating in 2018, why shouldn’t it be allowed on the show?

Subscription services offer financial incentives that users love to get really mad about. Why can’t we be rational about companies like MoviePass?

On Monday night, cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger resigned from the Facebook-owned company. Here’s what to expect from Instagram going forward.

After a long and public bidding process, the tech giant chose to expand to the most obvious candidate cities on its list. Tuesday’s announcement makes clear: Amazon’s decision was never about revitalizing U.S. cities, after all.

What started as a TikTok trend in the middle of the pandemic became a Disney-sanctioned, one-night-only virtual Broadway show helmed by Jeremy O. Harris. Here’s how it all happened.

No one on the newest iteration of the dating show is trying to become an influencer or launch a tequila brand. It’s just a bunch of earnest boomers looking for a second—or third, or fourth—chance at romance.

About 40 minutes into his 1976 grimy neo-noir drama Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese appears in the back seat of protagonist Travis Bickle’s cab with a series of demands. He orders Bickle (Robert De Niro) to pull over to the curb, put the meter back on, and just sit. “I don’t care what I have to pay,” Scorsese says in a pushy New Yorker’s staccato. “I’m not getting out.” He then directs Bickle’s gaze toward a silhouette of a woman in a second-floor window, explains that it’s his wife in another man’…