Rebecca Jennings

New York

Features Writer at New York Magazine

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The online sex police are always watching and always so mad

Jan 31, 2025 | vox.com | Alex Abad-Santos |Rebecca Jennings

Hello, and welcome to Group Chat, where culture reporters Rebecca Jennings and Alex Abad-Santos discuss the topics currently blowing up our (and probably your) phones. Old people have fretted about the sex that young people are (or aren’t) having since time immemorial. But lately it feels like the tension has amped up in wilder and weirder ways.
Why pickles, olives, and protein are 2025’s hottest food trends

Jan 30, 2025 | vox.com | Rebecca Jennings

It was September 2023, and a certain sweatshirt wouldn’t leave me alone. It was heather gray with a grid of 12 pickle jars on it, and it showed up on my TikTok feed with what I’d consider astonishing frequency, as in, multiple times an hour.
It’s not conspiratorial to be worried about social media’s rightward swing

Jan 24, 2025 | vox.com | Rebecca Jennings

Many Instagram users this week had their scrolling interrupted by the bearded visage of our newly elected Vice President JD Vance. Suddenly it seemed that on the week of their inauguration, everybody on the app was following or being suggested to follow the official accounts of President Donald Trump and Vance (@POTUS and @VP, respectively). Chaos ensued. In group chats, on Instagram Stories, on X and Bluesky, people frantically wondered what was up.
It’s not conspiratorial to be worried about social media’s rightward swing

Jan 24, 2025 | flipboard.com | Rebecca Jennings

Elon Musk’s Unfettered Influence On the Trump Administration Isn’t Just Undemocratic — It’s Really Freaking WeirdElon Musk is a weirdo. There’s the stuff on the surface, from his controversial salute or bizarre behavior standing behind Trump during the …
Why some people can't stop watching MrBeast's new game show

Jan 15, 2025 | cbc.ca | Rebecca Jennings

Arts·CommotionCulture journalist Rebecca Jennings explains why she can't look away from Beast Games. Culture journalist Rebecca Jennings explains why she can't look away from Beast GamesCBC Arts · Posted: Jan 15, 2025 11:37 AM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoMrBeast celebrates the premiere of Beast Games. (Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Prime Video)Jimmy Donaldson, a.k.a. Mr.Beast, rose to YouTube fame by uploading videos of ordinary people participating in gimmicks that could win them cash.
I can’t stop watching Mr. Beast’s new game show and I hate myself

Jan 7, 2025 | vox.com | Rebecca Jennings

The point of Beast Games is laid out with chilling starkness in the first 60 seconds of its premiere.
I tried 75 Hotter, a glow-up TikTok challenge

Jan 2, 2025 | vox.com | Rebecca Jennings

Sometime last spring, I decided to glow up. This is an extremely embarrassing thing to admit, or at least it should be. But this is America. If you’re not “glowing up,” which is to say, committing all of your time and money to the endless quest of self-improvement, you’re “letting yourself go.” And in America, there’s nothing more pitiable than settling for what you already have. Plus, everyone else was doing it.
From thirst edits to nihilism, what's behind the online response to the CEO murder?

Dec 10, 2024 | cbc.ca | Miles Klee |Rebecca Jennings |Sabina Wex

Arts·Commotion Internet culture reporters Miles Klee and Rebecca Jennings make sense of our reaction to the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Internet culture reporters Miles Klee and Rebecca Jennings make sense of the reaction Sabina Wex · CBC Arts · Posted: Dec 10, 2024 2:34 PM EST | Last Updated: 2 hours ago Health care advocates protest care denials at UnitedHealthcare (David Berding/Getty Images for People's Action Institute) From TikTok to cable news, media old and new have been ablaze...
It was always rough to be a woman on Twitter. It’s even worse on X.

Dec 3, 2024 | vox.com | Rebecca Jennings

In late November, a woman posted a photo of herself proudly holding her PhD thesis along with the announcement that she had successfully defended her dissertation. “Thrilled to say I passed my viva with no corrections and am officially PhDone,” she wrote. What followed was a case study in how the online right targets and harasses those who don’t fit into the narrow — and often conflicting — standards they’ve formulated for women.
So you got dumped... should you post your breakup deets online?

Dec 3, 2024 | wrvo.org | Brittany Luse |Rebecca Jennings

It's cuffing season: the time of year where the weather cools down and folks look for a warm body to cuddle up with. But we're getting into some of the less warm and fuzzy aspects of dating. For the next couple of weeks, we're kicking off cuffing season with some of the big questions about dating in our culture right now. This week – a lot of us have seen how explosive breakup stories have been on social media.

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