Aleks Eror
This Dumb New App Lets You Pay People to Eat Maggots
On Eristica, viewers can use cryptocurrency to pay "daredevils" to do stupid shit.
Making Sense of the Strange YouTube Unboxing Trend
Philosopher Jean Baudrillard can help us understand this odd online phenomenon.
The Rise Of the Anti-Beauty Aesthetic
In a world of easy-to-access beauty, sometimes ugliness is the only way to stand out. We chart the aesthetic of ugliness from German expressionism to hardcore punk to the rise of Vetements.
The Serbian Warlord Who Led His Club to the Champions League
Serbian warlord Željko "Arkan" Ražnatović led FK Obilic from the second tier to the domestic title and a place in the Champions League qualifying rounds. But their story was never going to end happily.
How a Homophobic Country Became a Go-To Spot for Gender Reassignment Surgery
Serbia's cheap medical tourism industry has attracted trans people from across the world—but local trans people find themselves left out in the cold.
How Football Explains Capitalism
As football becomes increasingly corporatised, certain phenomena in the game begin to reflect some of the fundamental functions and theories of our planet's dominant economic system
Knee Deep In the Balkan Floods, Climate Change Finally Feels Real
It took the natural disaster to make me really care.
Scally Lads Are Gay Brits Who Like to Smell Stinky Socks and Have Sex in Tracksuits
One guy who tried to cruise me requested that I don’t shower for a week before our meet, telling me that he loves “stinky socks” and a “cheesy cock” because it’s “fucking manly."
Speaking to Mandela Mourners Outside London's South Africa House
There was a Scottish guy playing bagpipes and another who was going to camp out indefinitely.
I Went to Porn School and It Was a Disaster
Some of the people who show up to Porn Weekender are aspiring porn-industry professionals; others are simply people for whom the experience of sitting at home watching porn is too lonely, remote, or unfulfilling.
'Yomango' Is Barcelona's Ideological Shoplifting Movement
The world's economy is still fucked. And ever since the West went into an economic meltdown in 2008, anticonsumerist sentiment has been steadily on the rise. While proletariats in the US have largely settled for memories of Zuccotti, the Catalan civil...