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Picture from VICE photo library. All others courtesy of the author The Worst People On Earth Are the Ones You Meet Traveling
Everyone wants to travel like the late, great Anthony Bourdain, but a lot of you are more like Christopher Columbus if he had a smartphone.
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Picture by Danilo Parra 10 Soul-Destroying Modern Pursuits
Life going too well? Here are some quick and easy ways to implode it with almost immediate effect.
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Dreading the new film? Just count yourselves lucky Sacha Baron Cohen wasn’t coming up during the Kick era.
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All pictures by Arnaud Diemer Tokyo Sunset: Golden Age Turns to Gilded Cage for the Yakuza
How does an ultra-traditional criminal brotherhood founded in the 1600s survive this weird new world? VICE put it to members old and new.
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Pictures by Bella Morley Pokémon Cosplayers Are Buying Weapons to Fend Off Sex Pests
One of the world’s most wholesome fandoms has a harassment problem—and now rogue Pikachus face getting blasted with stun guns.
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All images by Dean Kissick How to Escape the 21st Century: Adam Curtis Talks to Dean Kissick
The planet’s most beguiling documentary maker and the world’s least boring art critic discuss the future of everything you ought to care about.
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Pictures by Emma Stern ‘Welcome to the Family’: Inside the Sex Cult of Miami’s Most Diabolical Pimp
William Foster lured desperate young women with promises of vast wealth. Instead, they were ensnared by his regime of mind control, sexual punishments, antipsychotic drugs, plastic surgery—and lots and lots of lemon juice.
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Pictures by Nick Dove Sunset on the Dark Enlightenment: Inside Nick Land’s San Francisco ‘Arrival Party’
At an exclusive gathering, Grimes, Curtis Yarvin, and a swarm of Silicon Valley influencers honored the doomsaying father of accelerationist philosophy. VICE was there.
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Drugs. Sex. Controversy. VICE.
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VICE host Noelle Perdue (photo by Jamie Lee Taete) Watch: The Wild Goon Chase, a New VICE Documentary About Gooning
Noelle Perdue hunts down the gooners, the internet’s sticky-palmed folk devils, at the first AVN since their subculture exploded into the mainstream.
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The Last Strip Club in Miami Beach
In a city known for wild nights and barely legal everything, The Madonna’s is the only truly lawless paradise left standing.
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Narco Pilots: Watch Our New Film About Mexico’s Daredevil Drug Smugglers
They fly to earn money for drugs and sex—until they get shot down and die.
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All pictures by Lao Xie Xie Gen Z Are Leading a Sexual Revolution in Shanghai, Apparently
And artist Lao Xie Xie has the photos to prove it, as he documents a shift in self-expression among China’s rebel youth.
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Clavicular: The ‘Jestermaxxing’ Heart Throb Who Fell Into the Hitler Trap
The streamer’s “beauty routine” includes smoking meth and hitting himself in the face with a hammer. Yet even by his standards, he’s had an eventful week.
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Pictures by Ivar Wigan A Park Despoiled: In LA, Gen Z Goths Are Making Dogging Cool Again
A mysterious cohort of young music lovers is bringing al fresco lovemaking to the hills of Elysian Park.
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THE SELF-DESTRUCTION ISSUE
One hundred thirty-two scintillating pages of lizard-brain chicanery inspired by a species that is constantly finding groundbreaking new ways to destroy itself, featuring Antoine d’Agata, Will Self, Bertie Brandes, Sean Thor Conroe, Elias Rønnenfelt, Opioid Crisis Lookbook, Simon Reynolds, Mattha Busby, Julie Poly, Nick Dove, Noelle Perdue, Giancarlo DiTrapano, and our new columnists Biz Sherbert, Caia Hagel, and Emma Garland.
Oh, and Chris Nieratko returns with his fabled SKINEMA column.
“Self-destruction has killed some of my best friends. It has also given me the greatest moments of my life and could’ve been the theme of every issue of VICE since its inception. Sometimes you just have to let bygones be bygones and give a set of catastrophically harmful behavioral patterns their dues.”
KEVIN LEE KHARAS
Editor In Chief
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Experience: I Bought a Terrible ‘Anti-Conscription’ Mask
In Ukraine, cunning entrepreneurs are cashing in on the very human urge to not get blown up by a drone, by selling masks to help evade conscription gangs.
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In Your Face: The ‘Chosen Ones’ of Phuket Are Hard to Ignore
Photos from Thailand’s Taoist Nine Emperor Gods festival, where hundreds of devotees gather to gouge holes in their faces and then shove stuff through them.
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Simon Reynolds on ‘Heroin’, Rock’s Most Evil Song
The best-selling author and music critic tracks the itch for oblivion, from Lou Reed to Juice WRLD.
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