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Grindr’s married-with-two-kids, conservative CEO wants it to be more than just a hookup app. He calls it “The Global Gayborhood in Your Pocket™”.
By resurrecting Photoromance Darling and Manohar Kahaniya for the internet generation, Instagram’s AI-armed “authors” are scratching a familiar need.
Attacks against the queer community are launched with twin purposes: to strike the fear of endless memefication in the hearts of trans people and...
Most people on the Internet were worried about the ecological impact and commercialisation of the hills, with some saying that ‘these people won’t...
In the Viral Spiral of the dancing uncle phenomenon, all you need is a pot-bellied chachaji, a decent beat, and a main character.
There may be much more than money to blame for my inability to partake in drag, but I am not alone in feeling that the craft feels too inaccessible in...
You can dismiss the bottomless teapot as a symptom of the meme economy. Everything is content, and everyone wants their share of the pie. But it comes...
In the bizarre Viral Spiral that is North India’s “gareeb ki pehchan” reels, enjoying coffee, dreaming of studying in Germany, and owning an...
From meme handles to influencers alike, Modi’s appeal to citizens is more of a farmaan (edict). Some version of 'Modiji has forbidden it' pops up...
A whole army of content creators has taken to dressing up as the deposed TMC leader. In the videos, she is beaten, kicked around, and shown as a...
To be cringe is not to be free, actually. Social media is a panopticon of judgement, and one wrong caption can cost you many thousands in aura points.
My absolute favourite is @mohit_cake_master. His videos hinge on two components: Cakes being iced and a man’s sad, sad, heartbroken voice.
The singer is on everyone’s feed—at least, everyone who is plugged in. In fact, the video has reached all the way to Saudi Arabia.
During appraisal month, tensions run especially high, resignations abound, and the one place it all airs out is on Instagram.
Even after Asaram and Ram Rahim, why does India continue to be obsessed with the baba phenomenon? Part of this is basic daddy issues.
The VFX effects are what you’d expect from a run-of-the-mill video game or a mediocre fantasy show. But a film that supposedly cost thousands of...
It’s not the first time a traumatised generation has found refuge in absurdism. In 2026, we’re watching the amusing hallucinations of a sinister...
The first Bridgerton kitty party was a roaring success. Aunties came dressed in their best saris. I would like to know what this kitty’s Whistledown...
Meta AI has come for Border 2, Hum Saath Saath Hain, and Haryanvi rap so far, but it hasn’t met its true match. Translate ‘Chhaiya Chhaiya’, and...
The padar or pallu has a special place in these videos. 'The last generation to cover their head with a padar,' some buffoon will write.
Hulk, who is more brawn than brains, is shown in multiple videos to be a Shiv Sena candidate. Thanos, the biggest villain in the MCU’s infinity...
Cats have ruled the internet since their YouTube days. But after two decades, even watching tiny demons wreak devastation upon household items gets...
One day, gay men do Madhuri's entire Maar Dala routine in the club, and the next, they’re ready to play Dr Nene.
If Right-wing gays and transpersons are a walking contradiction for those on the Left, the latter are far too militant for those on the Right.
We’re sad about drag bans in the US, but don’t care about horizontal reservations in India. Stonewall remains our frame of reference, and AIDS...
It’s no secret: gay men love women. Their lives are deeper, their conversation more honest, their heartbreak familiar.
I remember counting the profiles in my town and feeling a sense of relief—there were more like me out there. Grindr was a brutal place, but it...