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7 March 2013

DEEP DIVE

The History of Going Viral

A visual timeline of internet culture's defining moments.

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Viral Twitch Moment: Influencer Says Ex-NFL Husband's 'Two Coke Cans' Penis Ended Their Marriage. Lawsuit Dismissed

2026-09-17

'Resident Evil' Is Taking Over the Internet Again, This Time by Throwing an Ordinary Guy Into the Apocalypse

2026-09-17

China Commissions the World's First 10,000-Unit-Scale Smart Factory, Making the Terminator Factory Look Less Like Science Fiction

2026-09-15

Celebrating 30 Years of Diablo: The Return of Deckard Cain and the Three Original Prime Evils

2026-09-14

Canadian Woman in Los Angeles Loses Job and Faces Reported U.S. Expulsion After Charlie Kirk Memes and American Flag Photos Go Viral

2026-09-11

The Late Comer’s Crown: How Apple's iPhone Duo Redefines the Foldable Benchmark

2026-09-10

How a Police Raid at Thailand's Royal Temple Exposes Sex on a Dining Table and a 215 Million Baht Embezzlement Trail

2026-09-10

Sarah Khalifa: From Egyptian Television and Instagram Fame to a Death Sentence in a Major Drug Trafficking Case

2026-09-05

Krakatau, a Name That Has Haunted the World Since 1883: When the Volcano Erupts, the Internet Watches

2026-09-04

How a Fake Photo of Madonna and Her Daughter Lourdes Became a Viral Culture War

2026-09-04

OpenAI Whistleblower Dies by Suicide Weeks After Making Serious Allegations Against the Company

2024-12-13

Elon Musk, $400 Billion In Net Worth: Redefining Wealth As Mere Numbers

2024-12-11

Microsoft Introduces A Cooling System For Its Data Centers That Wastes Zero Water

2024-12-11

Google's Quantum Computer ‘Willow’ Solves Problem In Minutes That Would Take Supercomputers 10 Septillion Years

2024-12-09

End Of The Assad Regime, As The Internet Welcomes The New Chapter For Syria

2024-12-09

The Lydia and Vior Alleged Scandals: A Stain On The ONIC Esports Team

2024-12-07

Bitcoin Reaches $100,000 Is Making It Enter Unchartered Territory With Known Consequences

2024-12-05

Chinese YouTuber Says He Became Fluent In Japanese, Crediting Online JAV As His 'Teacher'

2024-12-04

OnlyFans Star Earns $43 Million Annually: How Adult 'Non-Porn' Nudity Surpasses Hollywood and Athletes

2024-12-04

Researchers Found That They Can Store Data Inside Diamonds, And Make It Last Millions Of Years

2024-12-03

'Hawk Tuah' Was Predicted 16 Years Before It Happened, And The Internet Goes Crazy

2024-12-03

A GIF Showing A Smiling Japanese Actress: A Lustful Gaze That Goes Viral

2024-12-02

From Creating The World's Most Distinguishable Porsches, To Earning The Internet's Hate

2024-12-02

TRON Founder Eats A $6.2 Million Banana Art In A Viral Video: Eating 'Comedian'

2024-11-30

Being On OnlyFans Earn Her More Money Than A World Tour, Singer Kate Nash Said

2024-11-30

From ChatGPT to o1 to GPT-6 Astra in 4 years: 'AGI has arrived'

When AI Becomes Too Powerful, 'We Want People Deeply in Control of the Future,' Not One Company, Model, or Person

When AI Exceeds the Sum of Human Intelligence, 'There Won’t Be Anything That AI Can't Do Better than Humans Apart from Being Human'

From 'AI Vampire' to 'AGI Is Already Here': Humans Are Still Writing the Scripts

The Question Is No Longer Whether Superintelligence Will Exist, 'but Who Will Have Access to It'

Creating AI in Their Own Image, Hating Each Other, Pursuing the 'Imperial Agenda,' and Selling the Myth That Something Could Go Wrong

The Moment Humanity Handed Over Its Thinking to Machines, 'That Only Permitted Other Men With Machines to Enslave Them'

The Future of AI Is Not Competing Models, But One Connected Superintelligence: 'We by Definition Are Connecting Them'

AI Is Like A 'Five-Layer Cake,' And Anything That Produces Energy Will Get Funded

When 'AI Is Advancing At A Lightning Pace,' AI Is The Hobbit, Government Is The Treebeard

The Ship of Digital Freedom 'Has Already Hit the Iceberg.' We're Sinking 'Without Even Realizing It'

'Maybe You're A Dog. I Don't Care': How Introverts Are Quietly Running The Modern Internet

'God Complex' And AI Dystopia Claims By CEOs 'Are Not Helpful'

On Social Media, 'Some Gets Viral Some Does Not,' And 'People Just Pick Whatever They Want To Pick'

OpenClaw Is A 'Sandbox' Where People Can Play, And That It Moves AI Into 'Something That Is Fun, Useful, And Weird'

From 'Hierarchy To Intelligence,' A Company Should No Longer Be Viewed As A Human Hierarchy, But A 'Mini-AGI'

'I Think We've Achieved AGI,' And Why The Benchmark Keeps Shifting

When AI Is Taking Over Smartphones, 'I Think People Should Understand That Apps Are Going To Disappear'

Apple Is A 'Party Of One,' Thanks To The People And The Culture

With AI, Apps Will Have No Chance. 'I Think 80% Of Them Are Going Away'

AI Has Advanced So Far That 'We Don't Know If The Models Are Conscious'

AIs Learn From Mistakes, 'I Think The Concept Of Grace Is Maybe Important For Models'

When It Comes To AI, 'The Horse Is Bolting,' And When It Comes To The Web, It's Not Too Late To Fix The Internet

Selling Nvidia's H200 Chips To China Is Like 'Selling Nuclear Weapons To North Korea'

Beyond The LLM Wars, AI Should Be Considered The 'Bicycles For The Mind,' Not Slop

With AI And Robotics, 'Work Will Be Optional'

Using AI Can Be 'A Way To Spread Kindness And Love And To Detoxify Ourselves'

So Far, 'Nobody's Found Anything In The Universe That's Non-Computable'

In Pursuit Of Superintelligence In The 'Broligarchy' World Of AI, 'Getting The Balance Right Is Very Important'

The Future Of AI: Human Intelligence Isn't Going To Be The 'Upper Limit Of What's Possible'

'Hire Incredibly Senior Talent, Hire Incredibly Hungry Junior Talent,' And 'No Squidgy Layer In The Middle'

The Perfect Linux PC: 'A Big Percentage Of Windows BSOD Are Hardware Being Not Reliable'

Achieving Reasoning Model Was A 'Scientific Wonder,' And 'We'll Never Get That Lucky Again'

The AI Bubble, Losing $500 Billion In Weeks, And How Nvidia Is 'Basically Holding The Planet Together

AI Will Never Gain Consciousness. It's 'Absurd,' And 'I Don’t Think That Is Work That People Should Be Doing'

'We Must Build AI For People.' AI For Erotica May Sell, But 'Is Very Dangerous'

AI Can Save The 'Broken, Beaten, Battered' Gaming Industry. 'We Need To Bring It Back To What It Was'

Future AI Devices Should 'Make Us Happy, And Fulfilled, And More Peaceful'

'You Are Crazy Until You Are Successful, Then You Are A Genius.' That Is How The Society Works

When Speaking About OnlyFans, 'Everyone Just Immediately Assumes That We Do Porn'

'The Internet Is Forever,' Like 'A Tattoo.' Nothing Online Can Truly Disappear

First Is 3D In Games, Second Is The Internet, The Third Is AI. 'I Think That You’ll Take Advantage Of That'

AI Is Still Young, And Speaking About Its Welfare Is 'Both Premature, And Frankly Dangerous'

When 'One AI Is Playing In The Mind Of Another AI,' The Result Is Unlimited Training Data

On One Side, 'The World Is Going To Get A Lot Funnier, Weirder, And Quirkier' With AI

AI CreatesThe Highest Stakes Global Race: 'This Is Like Unprecedented At Any Point In Human History'

One Possible Future Dystopia is When 'Super Intelligence AI Is Reporting To Stupid Leaders'

AI Terms Like 'AGI' And 'Super Intelligence' Are 'Designed To Activate People's Dopamine'

Superintelligence Can Be 'A Tool For Personal Empowerment Or A Force Focused On Replacing Large Swaths Of Society'

AI 'Is The First Technology That Will Dramatically Accelerate Creation Itself'

'Sleeping With That Fear' And 'Waking Up Every Day Feeling Excited' Is The Recipe For Success

With AI Getting Smarter, 'No One Knows What Happens Next' Because Of 'This Weird Emergent Thing'

To Understand How Something Works And Where It Fails, 'Is To Go Straight To The People Using It'

For Companies In This AI-Driven World, 'IP Is Their Differentiation And Salvation'

Working 7 Days A Week: 'People Should Not Work This Hard,' And 'It Hurts'

AI Models Tend To Perform Better 'If You Threaten Them, Like With Physical Violence'

In A Possible Dystopian Future Dominated By AI, ‘You Have Human Meat Robots'

Anybody Who Is A Computer Scientist Should Not Retire, 'They Should Be Working On AI'

Large Language Models Ideally Should Be Something You Could 'Put Your Whole Life Into'

When Competing Against TikTok, 'You're Either growing, Or You’re Slowly Dying'

From Health And Education And Agriculture, 'AI Is Going To Help Us'

Without Google's Money, 'It's Very Frightening' For Mozilla

AI Companies That 'Crack Memory Properly' Can Create A 'Personalized And Hyper-Optimized' Experience

Saying 'Please' And 'Thank You' To OpenAI ChatGPT Is Worth 'Tens Of Millions Of Dollars Well Spent'

'AI Is Never The Answer. AI Is The Tool.' It Only Amplifies Existing Human Skills

'The Final Race To Artificial General Intelligence Is Afoot,' And Google Must Work Harder

Steve Jobs Lacked Technical Expertise. But When It Comes To Marketing, 'I'm Not In His League'

When You Try To Be Open, 'Everything I Say Leaks. And It Sucks'

Humans And AI Must 'Evolve Together' To Achieve What They Thought Was Unimaginable

With AI, 'Figuring Out What Questions To Ask Will Be More Important Than Figuring Out The Answer'

Social Media, 'We Are All Attracted To It. And There Is Too Much Bullying'

Before Social Media, 'Life Was Great. Life Was Awesome Before This'

Social Media Is 'Giving People A Voice,' And 'Basically Giving People The Ability To Share What They Want'

The Dark Web Is The Internet's Hidden 'Evil Twin' Cloaked In Secrecy

In The Foreseeble Future, Smart Glasses 'Will Be The Next Major Computing Platform'

How To Invest Without Investing: 'Keep It Simple,' 'Forget The Stock Price,' And 'Luck'

Baby Boomers Must 'Buy Gold, Silver, And Bitcoin Now'

It's 'Easy To Be Behind The Computer Typing Words About A Person You Don’t Know'

Advancing AI Further Is Becoming Harder Because 'The Low-Hanging Fruit Is Gone'

AI Is Revolutionalizing Everything, But In Can Never Replace 'Human Touch' In Game Development

The Perfect 'AI Girlfriend' Can Make 'Normal People' Ditch Real Women For AI

AI At Its Best Is A 'Craftsman' That Imitates People's Techniques. 'It Cannot Write Shakespeare'

Pursuing AGI Is Exciting 'Because The World Is Still Sleeping On All This'

Smart People Are Natural Safeguards Of Humanity, But AI Is 'Breaking That Correlation'

'Timing Is Everything.' And Yahoo! Should Have Gone Mobile Earlier Than It Did

Being A Market Leader Is All About Being 'Profoundly Different' And 'The Best'

This 'Newbie CEO' Creates An Imperfect Technology That People Wish 'Didn’t Exist'

AI 'Really Does Enlighten,' And 'Can Introduce Serendipity'

'I Pled Guilty To Journalism': Freedom Over 'Unrealizable Justice'

AI Is 'The First Technology That Has No Limit'

One Relies On Feedback And The Other Polishes Products: Meta Is 'The Opposite Of Apple'

Once Misinformation Spreads, 'The Harm Is Done': Young People's Problem

Everywhere In Every Company, 'Everybody Will Have An AI Assistant'

Generative AI Is Not Doing Artists Any Good, Because 'Creativity Is Made, Not Generated'

To Compete Against Google Is To 'Do Something Google Don't Want To Do'

People Can Befriend AI, Or Even Marry It, If That Is 'The Flavor That They Like'

'Digital Gods' Are Not Going To Exist, Anytime, Anywhere Soon

'The Singularity' Is When Humans Merge With AI To Become Immortal Cyborgs

AI Is Creating 'A New Computing Paradigm' Where Computers Use Tokens Instead Of Bytes

Building The 'One True AI' Through Closed Source Is Like 'Creating God'

Hire 'The Best Of The Best Of The Best,' And Be Free From Taking Orders From Anyone

Since The 1990s, The 'Social Contract' For Content On The Open Web Is 'Freeware'

The 'Tell Me The Story Of Your Life' Question Can Help Spot A Liar

Instead Of Firing Employees, 'I Rather Torture Them Into Greatness'

AI Is Not Replacing All Jobs, And 'We Still Need Those Software Engineers'

NSA Official Joining OpenAI Is 'A Willful, Calculated Betrayal' Of All Human Rights

AI-Powered Devices Should 'Empower You To Be Able To Do Things You Couldn’t Do Otherwise

'The More You Buy, The More You Save.' That Is Part Of The 'CEO Math'

The 'Achilles Heel Of AI' Is Energy. Fusion Is Needed To Solve The 'Energy Puzzle'

A Scientist Is 'Not A Business Or Product Person'

'Anthropomorphizing AI' And Why AI Is 'One Of The Most Unfortunate Names'

'Try Not To Think About Competitors' No Matter How Fierce They Have Become

'I Want To Die Remembering My Pranks' Because 'Happiness Equals Smiles Minus Frowns'

'I Don't Care If We Burn $50 Billion A Year,' Because AGI Is Going To Be 'Totally Worth It'

In 20 Years, 'A Lot Has Changed' At Google, And That Includes 'My Hair'

'Feedback Loops' Is Valuable, And GPU Hoarding Was To 'Catch Up To TikTok'

'Didn't Expect ChatGPT To Get So Good,' As AI Is Expected To Take Away People's Jobs

Using YouTube Videos To Train AI Tools Without Permission Would Be A 'Clear Violation'

Microsoft Was 'Below Them, Above Them, Around Them,' In Reference To OpenAI

If Compared To Its Future Version, OpenAI's GPT-4 'Kind Of Sucks'

'Google Should Have Been The Default Winner' In The AI War Against Microsoft

The Transparency Question: OpenAI Sora 'Used Publicly Available And Licensed Data'

The Web Must Serve Humanity, But Monopolization Prevents It From Being 'Human-Centered'

Apple Vision's Weight And Motion Blur Is 'Not What We Aspire To'

OpenAI Becoming Closed Source And For Profit, Is The 'Opposite Of What I Gave The Money For'

Future AI Is 'Text-To-Action' And Will 'Double Everyone's Productivity'

Compared To Apple's Vision Pro, Meta Quest 3 Is 'The Better Value' And 'The Better Product'

Apple Vision Pro, The 'Second Most Impressive' Technology Since The IPhone

Every Photo Is A Fake, And That 'There Is No Such Thing As A Real Picture'

Apple Will Continue To Invest In AI Because It 'Will Shape The Future'

Children Are Harmed By Meta, And 'I'm Sorry For Everything You Have All Been Through'

Anything 'Subscale' May Not Worth Investing At. But Things Can Change

Microsoft Can Be A 'Good Publisher' To Competitors On All Platforms

Being Fired Can Be So Painful That 'I Wouldn't Wish It On An Enemy'

AI-Based Search Engine Can Make Google Look 'Legacy And Old'

People Are Responsible For Their Own Privacy Because 'Everything On The Internet Is Monitored'

Like Information System, Money Is 'A Database For Resource Allocation'

The Internet Is Full Of People With 'Crazy Ideas' Doing 'Crazy Things'

Artificial Intelligence Is 'Going To Lift The World Up'

AI Chess Bots Defeat Humans Because 'No Human Being Would Play Chess Like This'

'Speechless': Knowing That Advanced AI Can Follow Humans To Mars And Destroy Them There

Nobody Should Blackmail With Advertising And Money. 'Go Fuck Yourself, Is That Clear?'

AI Singularity Happens When 'Magic Intelligence' Is 'In The Sky'

'Software Is Still Pretty Dumb.' But With AI, 'This Will Change Completely'

Generative AI Is Turning 'Will Never Happen' Into 'Will Happen Faster Than You Think'

AGI Is When AI Requires Less Training Data, But More On 'Reasoning Capabilities'

When 'Done Correctly', Paying Money 'Can Make A Difference' In Business

To Build A Successful Company, 'Support Network' Is More Important Than Knowledge And Experience

AI Is 'Too Important Not To Get Right' Because Of Its Potential For 'Huge Breakthroughs'

AI Innovations 'Bring More People And Increase The Need For Professionals,' Not The Opposite

Technology Impacts Competitiveness: 'It's Either Utilizing AI Or Being Left Behind'

'Google Did A Good Job' With Chrome. It Is Something Microsoft Cannot Do

'AGI Is The Equivalent Of A Median Human', Just Like A Remote Co-Worker

Google Dominates The Market Because 'Switching Is Way Harder Than It Needs To Be'

'Numbers Are Just Numbers'. But Having Huge Instagram Following Is 'A Big Responsibility'

After Generative AI, Is 'Interactive AI' And Soon, People Will Have Their Own 'Chief Of Staff'

AI Is Going To Be 'The Biggest Technological Shift We See In Our Lifetimes'

Growth Of On-Device AI 'Could Create A New Upgrade Cycle For Phones'

AI Arms Race May Create A Dystopian World Occupied By 'Swarms Of Slaughterbots'

Generative AI-Powered Chatbots Are Just Like 'Glorified Tape Recorders'

Twitter's Rebrand To X 'Allowed Us To Evolve Past A Legacy Mindset And Thinking'

'AI Arms Race' Could Involve The Design Of 'Nuclear Weapons And Bioterror Attacks'

AI Weaponization Is Real Threat. 'I Warned You Guys In 1984 And You Didn't Listen'

AI-Powered Sex Robots Could Change Human Intimacy, And 'Redesign Love And Relationships'

AI Chatbots May Soon 'Run Out Of Text In The Universe' To Learn From

To Minimize Cyber Risks, 'Turn Your Phone Off Every Night For 5 Minutes Every 24 Hours'

Care About What Machines Can Say, But 'Also Care About What It Can Do'

AI 'Is Going To Be The Most Meritocratic Moment' In History, But Things 'Could Go Wrong'

Intelligence Is 'A Fundamental Property Of Matter,' And 'Humans Aren't Special

Generative AIs Show 'Great Promise' But Also 'Things Like Misinformation, Maybe Worse'

AI Poses 'Existential Risk' To Humanity, Which Is Defined As 'Many People Harmed Or Killed

If AI Goes Wrong, 'It Can Go Quite Wrong' And Cause 'Significant Harm To The World'

AI Can Make Scams Harder To Spot, It Can 'Kill You,' And 'We Can't Stop The Technology'

Not Tumblr, Because Hulu And Netflix 'Would Have Been A Better Acquisition' For Yahoo!

AI Is Soon Going To Be Smarter Than Humans. 'How Do We Survive That?'

If AI Gets To Human-Level Intellect, There Is A '50/50 Chance Of Catastrophe' To Humanity

After Elon Musk Acquired Twitter, 'It All Went South'

Innovate And Improve Upon What Already Exists. 'If We Do That Well, Success Typically Follows'

The Most Important Philosophy Is To 'Engage When There's Disagreement'

Everyone Is A 'Little Obsessed' With Their Smartphones That 'They Are Out Of Their Minds'

AI Can Reshape The Society, And That 'We Are A Little Bit Scared Of This'

Google Bard And OpenAI ChatGPT 'Are Large Language Models, Not Knowledge Models'

AI-Po