BY PARKER KLYN Before Vine’s demise, one of the video platform’s most popular joke formats was a sudden burst of distortion and compression in the video’s sound to emphasize a punchline. Vine’s tiny vignettes had to be either universally understood or absurd to the point of humor, and these bass-boosted jokes fell into the latter […]
BY PARKER KLYN Odd Future broke up recently. The Los Angeles-based hip-hop collective, which earlier in the decade built up a huge wave of hype off the strength of their pure energy, consisted of a number of incredible individual talents (including Tyler, The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt and Frank Ocean). And yet, in a way, the […]