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Image: Heavy Weekend / Away Days x VICE. Unconventional Brain Action—This Week On VICE: Members Only
This week behind the paywall: a new documentary about men who batter each other for fun, and a journalistic experiment with a fruit fly’s neural network.
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Image: Rockstar Games Real Fits and Fictional Feet—This Week On VICE: Members Only
This week behind the paywall: we got a man with a full outfit made of Metrocards before GTA 6.
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Pictured: Mickey Avalon by Jamie Lee Taete The Curse of Living (Forever)—This Week on VICE: Members Only
Two tales of destruction behind the paywall this week: one man tanks his own life and lives to tell the tale, and one writer is radicalized by this summer’s brutal heatwave.
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Image: Dreamworks / Columbia Sympathy for the Music Journalist—This Week On VICE: Members Only
Behind the paywall this week: two stories that reflect the state of music journalism in 2026 (spoiler: it’s not so good).
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Image: Nick Dove Fully-Automated Luxury Space Capitalism—This Week on VICE: Members Only
The war between the old world and the new world rages on, behind the paywall this week.
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Image: Thurston Foster Sex Addiction in Chicken Shops—This Week On VICE: Members Only
Behind the paywall this week: two stories from the UK underbelly.
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Image: Mattha Busby Send ‘Ludes—This Week On VICE: Members Only
This week behind the paywall, a drug that hasn’t been in circulation for decades returns, and a violent new Pokémon card crime wave emerges.
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Image: Vincent Pflieger In Modern America, Your Poison Picks You—This Week On VICE: Members Only
Ice-cream and opioids and synthetic buttholes, oh my!
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Photo by Thurston Foster. All We Care About Is Ass and Violence—This Week On VICE: Members Only
Two “bonkers” happenings from behind the paywall this week.
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Picture by CJ @ weknowwhatyoudidlastnight Stomp Clap Step on a Landmine—This Week On VICE: Members Only
Behind the paywall this week, a conflict journalist tells us about the time he trod on a “toe popper,” and Jack White wades into our hipster music discourse.
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Future Islands on Letterman, 2014 The Hipster in Me Is the Hipster in You—This Week On VICE: Members Only
Behind the paywall this week, one piece looks back at the history of youth culture in the age of the internet, while another ponders its present.
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AI Is Evil, But Also Very, Very Funny—This Week On VICE: Members Only
A man who spends his spare time nuking AI OnlyFans chatbots—and AI Nick Land, interviewing AI Homer Simpson.