Endless Thread: The Musical
As Shakespeare once said...all the internet is a stage, and all keyboard warriors merely players. In this episode of Endless Thread, the members of the Nashville-based musical improv group Cherry Bomb...
23 Helmi 202424min
Dinner and a (Slide) Show
Instead of a typical first date — dinner and light conversation, maybe — he presented 29 slides about one of his favorite movies. The internet loved it. But did his date? Credits: This episode was pr...
16 Helmi 202427min
Recess Therapy's Julian Shapiro-Barnum is skeptical of kids becoming social media stars
The point of Julian Shapiro-Barnum's Recess Therapy, a video series where he interviews kids about life's bigger questions, was never to make the kids social media superstars. But that's exactly what ...
9 Helmi 202423min
Half a million eyes are on TikTok's "tunnel girl"
In 2022, a TikTok creator who identifies herself as "Kala" began digging. What followed was an increasingly viral series of TikToks chronicling the efforts of Kala, who some on the internet dubbed "tu...
2 Helmi 202427min
The schism at the end of the tunnel
The discovery of a secret tunnel attached to a Brooklyn synagogue earlier this month quickly went viral, fueling antisemitic conspiracy theories that long predate the internet. Endless Thread host Ben...
26 Tammi 202422min
Encore: The Faker
Earlier this week, the New Hampshire Attorney General's office announced that it was investigating some suspicious robocalls urging residents not to vote in the state primary elections. The voice appe...
24 Tammi 202439min
Where's the Beef?
What if vegetables are poison? What if, instead, humans evolved to consume an animal-based diet of steak, liver, brain, testicles, eggs, butter, and milk? Shirtless influencers on TikTok and Instagra...
19 Tammi 202453min
The Minnesota Timberwolves score NBA fandom in Brazil, but there's a kink
Rodrigo Barbosa runs social media for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves Brazilian fan club. He's fluent in Brazil's particularly zany brand of internet humor. But when one his weirdest tweets went vira...
12 Tammi 202431min
