Bill Gates spent years carefully cultivating a philanthropic public image, but it is beginning to crack under growing scrutiny of how that image was built. On Saturday, The Wall Street Journal ...

It’s a slogan that Generation Z loves in meme form, but in practice, they’d rather play it safe. Gen Z − the cohort born in the years 1997 to 2012 − is obsessed with cringe, or more aptly, with ...

Gen Z's fear of cringe might seem like a punchline at first. But as we report in Generation Cringe — a special project from Yahoo — young people's fear of embarrassment is so much more than that. As ...

A little over a year ago, a new class of Trump supporters arrived in Washington to celebrate the dawn of the president’s second term. They were fashion-conscious, politically incorrect and ready to ...

Infighting and backlash among Heated Rivalry fans is most pronounced on X—fueled in part by censorship-driven migration from platforms like Tumblr. “I was in my early twenties, I was trying to move to ...

ChatGPT was getting too preachy, causing some users to cancel their subscriptions. So, OpenAI did something about it. The new GPT-5.3 Instant model will tone down responses like “First of all — you’re ...

The revival is also not the first attempt to extend “Scrubs” past its natural lifespan. The second ABC season, subtitled “Med School,” introduced a mostly new cast (including Dave Franco and Kerry ...

Melania Trump has revealed the cringeworthy nickname she has given her 79-year-old husband. The first lady, 55, gave a six-minute speech at the premiere of her vanity documentary Melania at the ...

As dangerous as Everest and as technically demanding as K2, no discussion of the world’s most challenging peaks is complete without a mention of Cringe Mountain. But for those willing to undertake the ...

An intergenerational war has broken out with Gen Z mercilessly mocking millennials as embarrassing and out of touch. Chloë Hamilton reports We are revisiting some of our favourite episodes from 2025.

The bag Emily Karst keeps in her car is filled with everything but her phone. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Instead, she usually ...

Cringe has become a staple of meme culture. The word "cringe" has had a surprisingly long and dramatic journey. It began in Old English as cringan, meaning to bend, crouch, or yield, usually in fear ...