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G6 Top 25 College Football Rankings: Preseason

This is the weekly FBS ranking—a formal, dedicated assessment of on-field quality—of G6 (“Group of 6”) college football programs. These schools boast enormous roster talent but minimal NIL money.

The Memes You Need, Vol. 22: Operation Orange Chicken

The fascist takeover of our democracy is now having a major global impact. Our nation is ruled by a pedophile-enabling authoritarian who plans to bring chaos to the world. These 110+ memes respond.

The Top 125 Virtual Roller Coaster Rides, Vol. 5

Point-of-view roller coaster videos have become an at-home craze. Use this ranking to tour the world’s best coasters—from themed attractions to the tallest and fastest rides on Earth.

The Best of the Best TV Shows, Vol. 12

In this Retro series, a longtime professional art critic and a former professor of digital culture ranks the best television programs of this century—from network to cable and web series to streaming.

The Memes You Need, Vol. 21: Hardcore Memes II

The fascist takeover of our democracy is now having a major global impact. Our nation is ruled by a pedophile-enabling authoritarian who plans to bring chaos to the world. These 80+ memes respond.

The Memes You Need, Vol. 20: Hardcore Memes

The fascist takeover of our democracy is now having a major global impact. Our nation is ruled by a pedophile-enabling authoritarian who plans to bring chaos to the world. These 100+ memes respond.

The New Music Discovery Project, Vol. 25

These Retro-exclusive YouTube playlists offer a mix of contemporary genres curated by a former DJ. And if past is precedent, each is guaranteed to hold at least one new favorite song per listener.

The Memes You Need, Vol. 19: ICE Edition

The fascist takeover of America and its democracy has begun. Our nation is now ruled by an authoritarian who doesn’t plan on leaving D.C. and has a masked and jackbooted personal army: ICE.

The Memes You Need, Vol. 18: The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Edition, Part 2

The Trump-Epstein Scandal is a political scandal like none other this century—and has the memes to match. It doesn’t seem to be going away, either, which makes having memes at hand supremely useful.

The Memes You Need, Vol. 17: The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Edition

Trump has blown up his political base in a desperate attempt to keep the Epstein Files and Epstein Client List hidden from MAGAs—and the internet has some Very Big Feels about it, not surprisingly.