If you felt like 2025 unfolded one meme at a time, you’re not wrong. This was the year internet jokes stopped being quick punchlines and started becoming full-blown cultural moments. These are the ...

A viral TikTok trend known as the "AI Homeless Man Prank" is spurring parental panic and prompting police response across the country, as users create AI-altered images showing a homeless man inside ...

The prank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement. The prank has gone viral, causing headaches for law enforcement. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, ...

Police departments around the world are warning against the dangers of a trending social media prank that uses artificial intelligence to simulate a home invasion. Known online as the “homeless man ...

TikTok’s latest viral prank takes generative AI to unsettling new territory. The “AI homeless man” trend involves creating hyperrealistic images of a disheveled stranger lounging around your house, ...

The prank appeared to have been inspired by a social media trend. An 11-year-old Texas boy has died after being shot in the back when he allegedly attempted a door-knocking prank on a neighbor, police ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Gladiators: Epic Pranks has been a huge hit with our audience so it’s only right we bring it back for more silly antics and outrageous fun. — Sarah Muller, Senior Head of Commissioning 7+, BBC ...

Get ready for a heart-pounding, laugh-out-loud ride! This compilation showcases the best (and funniest) moments of unsuspecting victims getting the fright of their lives. Watch as friends, family, and ...

It has been a high school rite of passage in New Jersey for decades: the senior prank. Many seniors bid farewell to their schools in June with some lighthearted mischief aimed at the school staff, ...

A young man from Adelaide has been confronted by a stranger in a Kmart after a prank went horribly wrong. The prankster teen filmed himself approaching an older man with dreadlocks in the underwear ...