“LOL Interwebz” Articles

Christ and Pop Culture writer Luke T. Harrington says farewell to LOL Interwebz.

Rest in peace, capital-I Internet. We hardly knew ye.

When Google introduced the “Mic Drop” feature they were just trying to be funny, but they ruined quite a few lives in the process.

How are you different from an automaton like Microsoft’s Tay, fellow brain owner?

What’s almost as striking as the public hunger for violation is how genuinely celebrities like Hulk Hogan seem to feel violated when these videos are published.

The world is a dark, scary place, and disposable pap like “Damn Daniel” is comforting.

You don’t need a dislike button, and you don’t even want a dislike button.

Well, there you go, Internet. A self-righteous open letter. I await my kudos.

“Ransomware” started small, back in the mid-’10s. How could we have known technology wasn’t automatically good?

‘The Simpsons’ did a better job of reaching the masses that the culture warriors had already written off.

One series of ads—and, yes, the Twitter response to it—gave me a bit of hope. I’m talking, of course, about the “Super Bowl Babies” ad series.

Our culture is drowning in morals but starved for virtues—we all think no one has the right to judge us, but we all reserve the right to judge everyone else.

Nostalgia can be a powerful force—the human brain tends to remember what was good about the past and forget what was crummy about it.

When we share the Gospel in a way that is deceptive, we strongly imply that the Gospel itself is deceptive.

I wonder if maybe our own constant chasing of newness reflects a desire to escape our own mortality—an attempt to deny that we’re made of dust and to dust we will return.

Sometimes feeling the right things takes practice. Sometimes you have to rehearse the outward forms before the inward form takes root.