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If Your AI Assistant Were Your Roommate, You'd Have Broken the Lease Already
Food & Culture

If Your AI Assistant Were Your Roommate, You'd Have Broken the Lease Already

We've all used AI assistants to write emails, settle arguments, and avoid thinking. But have you ever considered what it would actually be like to *live* with one? We have, extensively, and the results are troubling. Here's our definitive ranking of which AI would be the most tolerable roommate — and which one would eat your Trader Joe's orange chicken without a single word of remorse.

Sip, Judge, Repeat: What Your Trendy Water Bottle Says About Your Entire Personality (And Credit Score)
Pop Psychology

Sip, Judge, Repeat: What Your Trendy Water Bottle Says About Your Entire Personality (And Credit Score)

The gym floor has become a runway, and your hydration vessel is the loudest thing you're wearing. We ranked every 'aesthetic' water bottle brand by exactly how hard it's silently judging you — because yes, your Stanley has opinions.

Caviar for Cats and Custom Dog Mansions: Inside the Gloriously Unhinged Economy of Luxury Pet TikTok
Food & Culture

Caviar for Cats and Custom Dog Mansions: Inside the Gloriously Unhinged Economy of Luxury Pet TikTok

Somewhere on TikTok right now, a golden retriever named something like Biscotti is eating a hand-crafted charcuterie board while sleeping in a $3,000 custom dog house. His owner has 800K followers and possibly zero savings. We went down the rabbit hole so you don't have to.

Beige Ambitions: Rating Quiet Luxury TikTokers on a Scale of 'Genuinely Rich' to 'Maxed Out Their Discover Card'
Pop Psychology

Beige Ambitions: Rating Quiet Luxury TikTokers on a Scale of 'Genuinely Rich' to 'Maxed Out Their Discover Card'

Quiet luxury is supposed to be the aesthetic that doesn't try. So why are there 47 million posts about it? We went deep into the beige fog of TikTok's most performatively understated corner and came out with a ranking nobody asked for but absolutely everybody needs.

I Let ChatGPT Write My Dating Profile and It Understood Me Better Than I Understand Myself (This Is Horrifying)
Food & Culture

I Let ChatGPT Write My Dating Profile and It Understood Me Better Than I Understand Myself (This Is Horrifying)

We fed ChatGPT a series of personality types and asked it to write Hinge and Bumble bios. The results were funnier, stranger, and somehow more compelling than 90% of real profiles out there — which says something deeply unsettling about both AI and the rest of us.

Your Brain on Celebrity Reno Porn: Why You've Watched Kylie Jenner's Closet Reveal 47 Times
Pop Psychology

Your Brain on Celebrity Reno Porn: Why You've Watched Kylie Jenner's Closet Reveal 47 Times

Millions of Americans are glued to their phones watching famous people gut-renovate kitchens that cost more than most of us will earn in a decade. We asked actual experts why this is happening — and the answer is somehow both obvious and deeply unsettling.

2024's Viral Food Trends, Ruthlessly Ranked From 'Surprisingly Edible' to 'Absolute Scam'
Food & Culture

2024's Viral Food Trends, Ruthlessly Ranked From 'Surprisingly Edible' to 'Absolute Scam'

We ate the protein bagels. We drank the lucky girl açai bowls. We did things with cottage cheese that cannot be undone. Here's our completely honest, deeply opinionated verdict on 2024's biggest food trends — and a theory about why we keep falling for this stuff.