Taylor Lorenz

Taylor Lorenz is a tech reporter covering digital culture, social media, memes, and internet stars. You can reach her at tlorenz@mic.com.

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A silent 10-minute song is skyrocketing up the iTunes charts

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Hot Water Challenge: Kids are burning each other with boiling water in a deadly YouTube trend

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These 2 teens cold-called Sam Altman and became the youngest founders ever accepted to Y Combinator

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Understanding plandids — the under-the-radar pose that’s taking over Instagram

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A 17-year-old coding superstar just launched the ultimate meme app

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Meet the teens and parents who spend hours standing in the hot sun outside Jake Paul’s house

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In praise of retweeting yourself

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Social media star Jake Paul accused of turning LA neighborhood into a “living hell” and “war zone”

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Millennial experts are over — meet the teenage thought leaders marketing Gen Z to the masses

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Want to meet Mark Zuckerberg? Follow these 3 rules.

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Parents claim Texas teen livestreamed his suicide as part of deadly “Blue Whale” internet craze

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Why does everyone on the internet want to die? How suicide memes took over the web

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What’s up with the dancing hot dog? Snapchat just created its most iconic lens since the dog filter

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There’s a new meme in town: Everything you need to know about the emoji sheriff

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People are mowing down their friends with golf carts because of an Instagram meme

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London restaurant Dirty Bones is lending diners “Instagram kits” to better photograph their meals

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New Snapchat update lets you add backdrops, voice filters and outside links

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How Mark Zuckerberg wants to transform society through Facebook Groups

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Snapchat Map: New Snap Map update highlights the key difference between Snap and Instagram

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Instagram’s “shadowban,” explained: How to tell if Instagram is secretly blacklisting your posts