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Petition accuses Etsy of profiting from hate
Petitioners are accusing Etsy, the handcrafting marketplace, of profiting off items it's supposed to prohibit—racist dolls. Unfortunately, the petition, which has acquired 105 signatures so far, is...
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Ghosts on eBay a paranormal sales trend
How much would you pay to own the ghost of famed amateur golfer Bobby Jones? Now ask yourself: would Jones’ spirit be worth more or less if he came hand-delivered and captured in a jar? eBay’s...
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How to support National Coming Out Day online
On Oct. 11, 1987, half a million people marched in Washington, D.C., in support of gay rights, forcing the issue on a national level. Today, on what has become National Coming Out Day, that prideful...
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10 sexist Halloween costumes called out by Tumblr
What’s the difference between a sexy Halloween costume and a sexist one? According to Fuck No Sexist Halloween Costumes, it all depends on the variety being offered to women versus men. While most...
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10 ridiculously funny political commentators on Twitter
For comedians and even average users, the presidential debate is a sprint to the punchline on Twitter, with rapid-fire jokes and parody accounts created in a matter of seconds. “[I]t truly does seem...
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Dot Dot Dot: The Internet is stranger than fiction
Two cities were completely wiped out Sunday. It was like the bubonic plague, but worse. Everyone died, but the cities remained. Ghost towns. And then, everyone was reborn. The cities were Orgrimmar...
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Whose baby is this?
Every day, the Daily Dot finds something that people on Facebook are sharing and, in turn, shares it with you—with a little explanation. Here's today's share. A funny thing happened when gardening...
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Serious confessions of a serial Yahoo troll
He's been called an idiot, ignorant, and a man of flawed logic. He's been ridiculed, chastised, and told that he'll be lost at the airport when his ship comes in. His notes have evoked anger and rage....
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Mom gives gay redditors a safe place to come out
In a world that’s dismissive and sometimes even dangerous for gays and lesbians, one mom is giving LGBT redditors acceptance on National Coming Out Day. Diogenes71, a member of r/gaymers, a...
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Mom's strike against filthy daughters earns global praise
A mother fed up with her kids’ inability to clean up after themselves decided to do nothing about it. Literally nothing. As dirty dishes piled up in the sink and hills of smelly laundry turned into...
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Artist Amanda Palmer enlists Twitter in health insurance fight
The threat of living without health insurance touches people from all walks of life—from business-savvy Harvard graduates, to aspiring musicians living gig to gig, to everyday Twitter users. Performer...
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New Trekkie dating site already has plenty of competition
An online dating site for fans of Star Trek? Fascinating! What’s perhaps even more interesting about TrekkieDating, a new personals site targeted at fans of Star Trek, is what it doesn’t do. For...
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The Morning GIF: Murphy's Law of line-jumping
Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or...
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Redditors donate money to recently unemployed Violentacrez
Reddit’s biggest troll might be out of job, but he’s not out of supporters. Michael Brutsch, the unwilling subject of a recent Gawker exposé that outed him as the controversial redditor violentacrez,...
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Wikipedia for the Weird: List of Solar System bodies formerly regarded as...
Sometimes what’s been deemed “verified” on Wikipedia seems too strange to be true. In Wikipedia for the Weird, the Daily Dot tracks down the most bizarre and entertaining entries on the Web’s...
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5 signs of a fading fandom (and why bronies fit the bill)
Discovering a new fandom can be like getting a new lease on life. Suddenly there are new episodes or chapters to analyze, new ideas for fanart and fanfiction, and an entire new community of fellow...
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r/Creepshots reboots get creative
One week after the sudden deletion of Reddit’s infamous r/Creepshots forum—a place where redditors posted images of real women in public, taken without their consent—those same sorts of pictures are...
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Violentacrez, r/ShitRedditSays, and a seismic shift in how the Internet deals...
Tech pundits are calling Adrian Chen’s big exposé on Reddit’s violentacrez the “best story” on the Web this year. The piece unmasked the real identity of one of Reddit’s most notorious trolls,...
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GOP responds to "binders full of women" meme with "Obama's empty binder"
Every day, the Daily Dot finds something that people on Facebook are sharing and, in turn, shares it with you—with a little explanation. Here's today's share. The day after the Internet lit up with...
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Face slaps curb Web surfing
Who knew the solution to preventing excessive Web surfing at work was as simple as a couple slaps in the face? This was the solution to Maneesh Sethi’s productivity issues. Sethi, a programmer,...
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