Can you believe it’s already the end of 2018? YouTube is celebrating its biggest creators with a collaborative video featuring over a hundred vloggers in YouTube Rewind.
The video opens up with Will Smith at the Grand Canyon, a throwback to…
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Time’s Up tops list of most successful GoFundMe campaigns in 2018
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GoFundMe, the world’s largest social fundraising platform, released its annual “Year in Giving” report for 2018, which includes data about the most generous U.S. states and cities, global trends, and best of all, the top fundraisers by the numbers.
The Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, founded to provide legal support to people who have experienced sexual assault and harassment in the workplace, raised $22 million to become the largest GoFundMe campaign of all time.
The top 10 fundraisers of 2018 collectively raised $58 million. Nearly two-thirds of people who donated to GoFundMe campaigns were first-time donors. Not only were people eager to give, they were also quick. A fundraiser for the Humboldt Broncos, a hockey team in Canada involved in a fatal bus crash that killed 16 people and injured 13 others, received 1.9 million views in the first 24 hours. Read more…
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The best TV episodes of 2018
The Golden Age of Television, while coined years ago to dubious looks from movie snobs, only continued in 2018.
Some of the best TV shows are now even mimicking the experience of feature films, with episodes that stand out and beg to be acclaimed for…
The best queer moments in culture in 2018
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2018 has been a banner year for hot queer people on television. Growing up as a queer kid, this was kind of all I ever wanted (besides being accepted for “who I was,” blah blah blah).
But that’s the not the only form of progress. Wherever you look (that’s not the Trump White House), queer people have been making headway — in Congress, film, music, theater, and on social media.
The queers are taking over, and for good.
Just look at all the strangely uplifting facts before us: Queer and trans people had a record-shattering year on television. They broke absurd amounts of ground in government. They made some charmingly slubby and kind cis men look handsome and good. Read more…
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The 8 best returning TV shows of 2018
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Finding something new to watch on TV is a fun, but sometimes exhausting endeavor.
Luckily, in today’s cancel-happy entertainment environment there are still some great shows that come back and deliver more of the good stuff people already know and love. Here are a few of the best returning shows from 2018.
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8. Dear White People
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Like Atlanta, Dear White People used its second season to lean into the distinct sensibility of Winchester University and its searingly smart students. Each episode is a rich character study and the season as a whole took things even further, quietly unraveling an old mystery that will make old Winchester clash with new. The dialogue is sharper, the hyperbole grander, and though it’s still in a fictitious Ivy League bubble, the show mirrors America’s never-ending tussle with race, class, and gender with enviable expertise– Proma Khosla Read more…
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2018 is nearly in the rearview mirror, and while reflecting on this interesting year is occasionally painful, there was at the very least some great new TV shows that showed up and showed out in the entertainment landscape.
Here are 8 of the best.
8. Castle Rock
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Shout out to Castle Rock for being able to draw from the great canon of Stephen King’s books and not end up looking like somebody put a bunch of 80s movies in a blender. An incredible cast led by Sissy Spacek, Andre Hollande, and everyone’s favorite scary boy Bill Skarsgård paid homage to the tone of King’s work while weaving an…okay, a pretty confusing but also very cool story that left its audience with a delicious amount of unanswered questions. And as for those questions? Well, Castle Rock Season 2 is already greenlit, but as an anthology. Take that, fan theorists. Read more…
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