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VICE Album Reviews, August 28: Turnstile, Tom Hardy, Prince and More

Music journalism is going to the wall, and places for sensible, well-informed, nuanced takes on the latest releases are dwindling. So we thought we...

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Asking a Clip Farm CEO Which of These Recent Viral Clips Have Been Clip Farmed

While writing the LOST WEEKEND and RATED AND SLATED columns each week, both of which rely on combing through web detritus, I come across the same...

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The Robot Games: Laughter at the Arms Fair

“Why do I have a feeling that, just by writing this article, I’m writing my name on some kind of future kill list?” It is to Usain Bolt’s...

25.08.2026 4

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VICE Album Reviews, August 21: Brandon Flowers, Sam Smith, GB and More

Music journalism is going to the wall, and places for sensible, well-informed, nuanced takes on the latest releases are dwindling. So we thought we...

20.08.2026 8

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Rated and Slated: Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to RATED AND SLATED, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. So apparently there’s this new scientific study shows...

19.08.2026 9

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Adam Christopher Smith

Kambo, the Frog Venom Making Suburbanites Puke Their Guts Out

Careful: After watching our latest documentary about the Amazonian drug, kambo, you might start seeing frogs wherever you go. Thinking about the...

18.08.2026 7

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VICE Album Reviews, August 14: Tyga, Phoebe Bridgers, and More

Music journalism is going to the wall, and places for sensible, well-informed, nuanced takes on the latest releases are dwindling. So we thought we...

13.08.2026 5

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Rated and Slated: Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to RATED AND SLATED, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. Whenever the reply guys have me feeling bad about my...

12.08.2026 8

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This Guy Makes the Worst Music of All Time

Welcome to LOST WEEKEND, VICE’s new Monday briefing. The last few weeks have brought proof that some songs are so reprehensible, so irredeemably...

10.08.2026 10

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VICE Album Reviews, August 7: Overmono, Twenty One Pilots, and More

Music journalism is going to the wall, and places for sensible, well-informed, nuanced takes on the latest releases are dwindling. So we thought we...

06.08.2026 6

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Rated and Slated: Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to RATED AND SLATED, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. Last time I gobbled up a fistful of magic mushrooms, I...

05.08.2026 8

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Rated and Slated: Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to RATED AND SLATED, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. Watching clips from the “most insane war in history”...

30.07.2026 7

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Stop Getting ‘UK Poo’ Wrong: A Guide to Britain’s Newest (and Worst?) Music Genre

Poo is easy to identify. Its odor is unmistakable. All of the humans who ever had a hard time distinguishing it from other things have been dumped out...

27.07.2026 20

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to RATED AND SLATED, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park...

21.07.2026 10

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Bryan Johnson and Jordan Castro on AI, God, and Why Psychosis Will Soon Be the New Normal

If immortality is something that can be bought, then Bryan Johnson can afford the price tag. As such, it’s no surprise that the tech millionaire’s...

10.07.2026 20

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Adam Christopher Smith

Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to RATED AND SLATED, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. I’m sick of being told music journalism doesn’t...

08.07.2026 10

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Adam Christopher Smith

Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. I have imagined, many times, how much better my life...

02.07.2026 10

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‘We Are Going to Make ‘Bald’ Very Fashionable, Very Soon’: Interviewing the Guy Who Made Those Viral Overhead Snake Glasses

We’ve overheard the bald people talking. And what they’re all saying to each other, in their little covens, is this: As soon as hair loss gets...

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Note to Gen Z: It’s Not Cool to Shit or Piss Yourself at Live Shows

For a time, my friend and I were weirdly fascinated with the “brown note,” a legendary sonic frequency that would supposedly force a listener to...

29.06.2026 10

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Adam Christopher Smith

Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. For me, being young was defined by the inescapable sense...

25.06.2026 10

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Adam Christopher Smith

Watching The Weeknd Live: Is The King of The American Night Finally Done With Decadence?

It feels wrong to watch The Weeknd performing in the daylight. For the last 15 years, Abel Tesfaye’s high-sleaze alter ego has made his name telling...

23.06.2026 10

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Adam Christopher Smith

Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. Sometimes, I almost let myself believe that Timothée...

17.06.2026 10

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Where Does the Content Go When a Content Creator Dies?

This weekend, the internet personality Oliver Tree died at the age of 32 in a helicopter crash in São Paulo, Brazil. In all the tributes paid to the...

15.06.2026 20

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. After joking about Andrew Tate’s trip to Russia last...

12.06.2026 20

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‘There’s Nothing Fake About My Story’: An Interview With Lasse Lund, the Norwegian With an Indian Accent

It’s turning-out time at the bars and clubs, but I’m already back home, sitting in the dark, eavesdropping on a video call between a Norwegian man...

01.06.2026 10

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. At the time of writing, a record-breaking heatwave has...

28.05.2026 10

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It’s Been a Bad Few Days for Joyless Optimization Freaks

Believe it or not, it is now Wednesday. Are you still piecing your skull back together after a long weekend so lurid it’d make a WHOOP band blush?...

27.05.2026 40

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Palace and Rizla’s New Collection is a Collaboration Worth Getting Excited About (For a Change)

Created in partnership with Rizla Here’s a rare thing: a brand collaboration you’ll actually be excited about getting decked out in. Most of the...

25.05.2026 10

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Rich People on Drugs—This Week On VICE: Members Only

To get past the paywall, sign up for VICE membership. A Digital Only subscription is just $2 a month (or $20 a year, if you prefer), while $70 a year...

22.05.2026 20

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. I’ve always suspected that me and Léa Seydoux would...

21.05.2026 20

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My Editor Ruined My Weekend by Asking Me to Write About the New Drake Album(s)

In many ways, it was a weekend like any other: 48 hours of dutifully monitoring social media, spreading celebrity gossip, and continued rumination on...

18.05.2026 20

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. There’s a video going round this week of a guy vomiting...

14.05.2026 20

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An Anatomy of ‘The Dude’

Welcome to LOST WEEKEND, VICE’s Monday briefing. What is it with men and crying? A couple of weeks ago, the term “crymaxxing” came bubbling up...

11.05.2026 20

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From Drake to Dua Lipa: How the Football Shirt Dominated Pop Culture

Created in partnership with Rizla The rumors that Justin Bieber was wearing a Swindon Town shirt ahead of his headline set at Coachella shows how far...

08.05.2026 30

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. Beauty is everywhere if you care to look for it. You can...

15.04.2026 20

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All the Times That AI Was Humiliated This Weekend

Welcome to LOST WEEKEND, VICE’s Monday briefing. Soon, AI will soon be able to peruse everything that has ever happened on the internet, the entire...

13.04.2026 30

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

Welcome to Rated and Slated, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be. I’m on my phone a lot, but 17 hours of screen time...

08.04.2026 30

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The VICE Verdict: ‘The Drama’ Is Unbearable

Welcome to LOST WEEKEND, VICE’s new Monday briefing. I’ve never cared about spoilers. I mean, really, you’re not going to watch a film because...

07.04.2026 30

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

The column that is terminally online so that you don’t have to be. I used to care about being on the right side of history; now, all that matters is...

02.04.2026 20

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Can Ye Win People Back with ‘BULLY’?

Welcome to LOST WEEKEND, VICE’S new Monday briefing. Black America, white America, and those of the Jewish faith. The Libs and anyone who’s...

30.03.2026 40

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Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

The column that is terminally online so that you don’t have to be. It’s been a busy week for geopolitical AI experts, which is basically what all...

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‘I Do Not Hate Children’: Chappell Roan Was This Weekend’s Main Character

Welcome to your Monday briefing. At times while scrolling X the social-media platform can feel like the dancefloor of a warped and nightmarish...

23.03.2026 40

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Rated and Slated: Things We Love and Hate Online This Week

It’s the age of optimization, so if you’re going to spend all of your time on your phone then you need to make sure you’re doing it right....

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Watch ‘Love in the Time of Fentanyl,’ a Film About Life-Saving Drug Users

At the height of the fentanyl overdose crisis, Canadian drug users started taking it upon themselves to try to save lives. Documentary maker Colin...

17.03.2026 40

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WU LYF Lives: The Return of Indie’s Most Enigmatic Band

WU LYF have always felt more like a cult than a band. Going by fake names and with their faces hidden by bandanas, the Manchester four-piece was...

17.03.2026 50

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Mark Leckey Has Made a Disquieting Music Video for Sheet Noise

Capturing what it’s like to scroll endlessly while waiting for the nukes to drop, electronic musician Sheet Noise has delivered his own modern take...

09.03.2026 40

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Watch: On the Road With UK Rave’s Most Infamous Twin Sisters as They Try to Not Get High

Any wreckhead who raves long enough eventually reaches the point where they’re too old to die young and the choice becomes whether to double down or...

05.03.2026 50

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We Got Him: The Troll Corrupting Soulseek With ‘Potentially Infinite’ AI Homer Simpson Songs Slams His Haters

An online troll who uploaded a huge stash of Homer Simpson songs onto music-sharing platform Soulseek has promised that even more AI cover versions...

02.03.2026 30

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Adam Christopher Smith

The ‘Mind Control Latina’ Who Relays Messages From an Invisible Orb

You may have already seen Cristina Méndez’s videos and mistaken them for an acid flashback. On TikTok, Instagram, and X, Méndez shares mysterious...

25.02.2026 40

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Exclusive: An Ex-UN Officer Reveals His Secret Double Life of Cocaine Addiction

A former United Nations officer has revealed how he became heavily addicted to cocaine while working in South America—even attending a meeting about...

24.02.2026 40

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