Nerds have found the cure for America's loneliness epidemic
Fantasy tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons are booming. No longer just for nerds, they're now the hot new hangout.
Aimee Pearcy
Freelance Journalist
Millennials are raising pets instead of kids. It's not going well for the pets.
Birth rates are declining, and millennials own more pets than any other age group. But experts say treating animals like kids isn't good for them.
Millennials were raised by the internet. Now their internet parents are gone.
I'm only 28 and my favorite childhood websites have already disappeared.
Millennials think Gen Z doesn't know how to have fun — but it's more complicated than that
People are confused about what Gen Z does for fun. Gen Zers say they spend a lot of time indoors, they're big on crocheting, and can't afford the experiences millennials describe.
An engineer started a food blog after a quarter-life crisis. When she was laid off, she saw an opportunity and turned it into a lucrative career.
In 2013, Jannese Torres started a food blog to deal with feeling unfulfilled as an engineer. Now, it's become her full-time job and she encourages others to do the same.
Emails are over. Just ask Gen Z.
The age of email as a primary mode of workplace communication may be drawing to a close. Gen Z isn't mad about it.
Gen Alpha gets a bad rap for being overstimulated 'iPad kids,' but one teacher says we've got it all wrong
One teacher said that some Gen Alpha kids are particularly emotionally intelligent, and it's clear their millennial parents have been putting in the work.
Nobody is talking about Gen X. Gen Xers say they like it that way.
Gen X is often left out of generational discussions. But many Gen Xers are saying that's just how they like it.
Millennial parents are trying to figure out how to have boomer grandparents look after their kids without passing on the anxieties they grew up with
After spending their childhoods listening to their parents' worries, millennials want to stop their kids from absorbing their boomer grandparents' anxieties too.
2 Gen Alphas tried to teach a millennial how to text without sounding old. Here are their rules.
A Gen Alpha girl and her best friend explained the texting etiquette in their friendship group to her millennial sister, who was left baffled by their takes.
My corporate job and big-city life made me feel anxious and drained, so I left it all behind to move to a remote cottage in the woods
Taylor Yates, 27, felt drained and burned out living in Toronto. Looking for a change, she decided to move to a rural cottage in the woods where she's happier than ever.
A friendship breakup over not being 'a girls' girl' divided the internet. The polarized response shows we may be more biased than we think.
A dispute between two former friends has taken over the internet. People are furiously divided over which side is right — a therapist explains why.
We quit our jobs in TV to start a coffee shop. When we decided to do it on a boat, we had no idea what we were in for.
Joanna and Victor Gould, both 35, quit their jobs to fulfil their dream of owning a coffee shop. When they decided to open one on a boat, they had no idea what they were in for.
An OnlyFans model said she gets so much online hate for not having a 'real job' that she shouldn't pay tax
Adult content creator Billie Beever said in a recent interview and TikTok post that if people say she doesn't have a real job, she shouldn't have to pay real taxes.
When I turned 40 I was broke, unemployed, and living in a van. Then I started sharing my life online, and now I no longer feel ashamed.
When Annie Wonderlich lost her business, she moved into a van. At first she was ashamed of her life at 40, but now she uses her online platform to inspire others.
An American woman discovered just how little geography she was taught at school when she married a Canadian
An American woman says she's embarrassed by her lack of basic geography knowledge after talking to her Canadian husband. She blames the US education system.
An American woman said she was shocked to discover that Alaska isn't actually an island, calling for an 'overhaul' of the school curriculum
A woman said she was shocked to discover that Alaska is not an island, and that you can drive to it, despite how it looks on the maps she saw at school.
Ana Stankovsky said she 'tricked the whole internet' into believing she got her boyfriend's name tattooed on her face to raise awareness about tattoo regret
Ana Stankovsky appeared to get her boyfriend's name tattooed on her face. She said the hoax was to warn people they may regret their tattoos later in life.
Baby boomers shocked Gen Z and millennials by revealing what they paid for their first apartments
A video asking people what generation they belong to and how much they paid in rent for their first apartment has shocked younger viewers, who are paying a lot more.
Meet Gen Alpha, the 'mini-millennials' who are poised to take over the internet
Gen Alpha is the youngest generation on the planet, but they're already making their mark on the internet. Here's what we know about them so far.