It's not really reasonable to hate words, even though it's fun. Those words didn't do anything to you. It's the connections and connotations that come from those words that are the real problem, and ...

This week, the word "derp" went mainstream — and, according to some people with strong opinions, jumped the shark. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Josh Barro at Business Insider both used ...

A bit of Internet vernacular has slipped its way into, of all things, the ongoing spat between Republican reformers and conservatives. Josh Barro at Business Insider wrote a post this morning ...

Jacob Kastrenakes is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Reddit and Imgur may be home to fairly strange corners of the internet, but ...

A hacker group going by the name of ‘DERP’ has targeted a bunch of online gaming servers for what appears to be a bit of ‘fun’. Talking through their Twitter account, it seems like DERP decided to ...

One of the greatest failings in journalism is the way that ideas, theories, nonsensical paranoid fears get ‘out there’ and then talked about, critiqued and so forth and yet there’s no point of ...