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In early January, fanfiction website Archive Of Our Own experienced some temporary downtime. Rumor had it that it was caused by a single fanfic releasing a new chapter, one that had become so popular that the sudden influx of readers had overwhelmed the site’s servers. And though AO3 clarified that this was not the case, the idea didn’t come from nowhere. “It was like everyone was suddenly admitting to everyone else that they were reading and enjoying [real person fanfiction],” says Aenqa, a writer who asked to be referred to by their pen name. Every day on the internet, new micro-tr...

Discord is best known as a gaming messanger app for games like Among Us and Fortnite. But as it winds up on more and more phones and platforms, it’s becom a great app for getting organized with things like chores, payments, and purchases.

Every day on the internet, new micro-trends emerge, only to become old news five minutes later. In Polygon’s new series The Next Generation of Everything, we’re looking at what’s blowing up in the worlds and fandoms we follow, and what the latest shifts say about where Extremely Online life is going next. Mobile games are great at keeping us distracted for awkward cracks of time in our schedule, from commutes, to waiting in line for seats at a restaurant, to the few conscious minutes before we finally doze off in bed. Rather than keep players captive for long hours at a stretch, most ar...

Every day on the internet, new micro-trends emerge, only to become old news five minutes later. In Polygon’s new series The Next Generation of Everything, we’re looking at what’s blowing up in the worlds and fandoms we follow, and what the latest shifts say about where Extremely Online life is going next. People on Twitter were saying that NCSoft had taken out most of the creepy features of UNIVERSE, their K-pop fandom platform app, so it was OK to use it to gorge my eyes bloody on beautiful people. NCSoft is a game company, the developers of

While teaching a middle school workshop on comics in 2019, I asked each one of my students about the comics they liked to read. Half the class responded the same way: webtoons. Since its international launch in July 2014, Korean digital comics giant’s commitment to international outreach and significant funding from its parent company, the Naver Corporation, has made it the most successful comics platform around the world, gaining readers by the millions. Every day on the internet, new micro-trends emerge, only to become old news five minutes later. In Polygon’s new series The Next Genera...