Do you ever scroll through social media and feel approximately 98 years old because you don’t understand anything that anyone is saying? You probably just haven’t spent enough time on Stan Twitter ...

Josef Lorenzo meets with the stans of Nicki Minaj, more commonly known as the Barbz. Stan armies are known for protecting their celebrity at any cost. One of the earliest and most active Twitter stan ...

This meme is all about attracting folks who forgotten about these old nuggets from movies, TV shows, or even albums from their favorite artists. Just like those Reddit threads that pop up like ...

Stan Twitter was the backbone of X. "I couldn't be a part of it anymore. I didn't want to be on a platform that uplifts right-wing propaganda and grifters and makes money for Musk. By staying on the ...

Twitter is divided into microcosms, and each little ecosystem comes with its own etiquette practices, language and jokes. Twitter unified people on one platform, but people quickly divided themselves.

Let’s travel back in time to the year 2000. Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP was everywhere and the song “Stan“—the tale of an obsessed fan who ultimately kills his girlfriend and then himself—was born.

Stan Twitter is the powerhouse behind the commercial success of the world’s most popular artists. But how did these cultish followings originate and at what cost? On October 30 2020, days before the ...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem took time out of her schedule this past weekend to fire shots at Lil Nas X following the release of his latest single “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name).” Instead of ...

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 ...

In March, after France entered into lockdown as the first wave of the coronavirus throttled the nation, Lorian De Sousa turned to Twitter with nothing but time on his hands. De Sousa, 20, a devout ...

The “Knives Out” social media team and the Twitter account @ArmasUpdates have a common goal: to celebrate last year’s hit whodunit and, by extension, the movie’s breakout star, Ana de Armas. But two ...