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Pictured: a scene from VICE's new kambo documentary Kambo, the Frog Venom Making Suburbanites Puke Their Guts Out
In her first VICE documentary, Amber Rawlings travels the UK, meeting unhappy people searching for answers in Amazonian frog secretions.
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Image: Capitol Records / WikiCommons (Illustration by Johnny Ryan) We Asked Music Critics Who Were Laid Off by Good Charlotte to Review Good Charlotte Albums
The music publications, alongside BrooklynVegan and Goldmine, were recently gutted by a company founded by the Madden brothers.
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Kill Karl, pictured on the sleeve for his 2025 album “Suck on My Album”. This artful combination of language and visual is precisely what curious newcomers can expect to find in his TikTok videos and entire creative output, which taken as a whole can be read as an act of extreme provocation This Guy Makes the Worst Music of All Time
Fusing musical theater with comedy rap metal, Kill Karl is the final boss of “co-worker music,” a genre worse than your job makes you feel.
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Pictures by Nick Dove I Went to a ‘Torture Party’ With Polyamorous Bay Area Rationalists
That feeling when you drink too much Everclear to get waterboarded at the San Francisco “Torture Potluck”.
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Picture courtesy of the Department of Energy Conspiracy Theorists Are Losing Their Minds About CERN’s Big Shut Down
VICE asked CERN’s scientists how likely their work is to open up a portal to hell, time-traveling aliens, or alternative dimensions.
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Mona Lisa, DeepDream (2015) The Terminally Online Mourners Who Miss the Days When AI Made Mistakes
Yearning for the ten-fingered hands and deformed horse glitches of old AI image models? You’re experiencing nostalgia compression.
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All images courtesy of Arnold Putra How I Avoided Being Beaten to Death in a Myanmar Prison
Arnold Putra didn’t know blasphemy was such a big deal in Myanmar. Fortunately, he was able to bribe a cop and cover up his Buddha tattoo.
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Pictures from VRChat Phantom Pain… in the Ass: The Internet’s Biggest Cry-Babies
The VR gamers who claim they experience “phantom pain” are widely loathed. But do they deserve to be tormented by YouTube trolls?
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This painting, showing North Korean soldiers celebrating with their Russian comrades, was displayed at an exhibition in Moscow last autumn. Jointly organized by the North Korean and Russian ministries of culture, the exhibition was titled Art Exhibition of the DPRK: The Country of Great People and held at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts to mark the 77th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK. (Credit: In the Same Trench by Kim Chang Yung.) The VICE Propaganda Report 2026
How shady forces all over the world are using images to melt your brain.
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You will know a "dinergoth" by personal adornment—colorfully dyed hair, cat ears, arm tattoos, septum piercing—but does this new character really exist? What ‘Dinergoth’ Gets Wrong About Class in 21st-Century America
Robert Mariani’s viral “dinergoth” essay, about a supposed new type of American weirdo, is blinkered and self-serving.
