MARK YARM

Input • November 22, 2021

This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished.

The author of ‘Pictures for Sad Children’ went AWOL after a 2014 Kickstarter drama. In an exclusive interview, she explains why she had to unplug from the internet. By Justin Ling

Input • November 16, 2021

The Bored Apes take Manhattan

Members of Bored Ape Yacht Club, the internet’s hottest NFT project, monkeyed around IRL at Ape Fest 2021. How long can the party last? By Jessica Klein

Input • September 15, 2021

Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com

The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos. By Andrew Federov

Input • July 8, 2021

Finally, the truth behind the ‘haunted’ Dybbuk Box can be revealed

The ‘cursed’ cabinet inspired a Hollywood film and spooked Post Malone. Now the man who first sold it on eBay in 2003 is coming clean. By Charles Moss

Input • May 16, 2021

All hail King Pokémon!

Gary Haase has amassed the world’s most expensive Pokémon card collection, valued at over $10 million. So why isn’t he cashing in? By Brendan Bures

Input • April 22, 2021

Sex dolls are the new influencers

Synthetic women are “running” their own Instagrams. There’s money to be made, sure, but what their human partners want most is respect. By Jessica Lucas

Input • March 4, 2021

I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it

Being a cyborg is cool right now, thanks in large part to gee-whiz media coverage. But actually using a bionic arm can really suck. By Britt H Young

Input • February 6, 2020

The high-tech secret behind the stunning cinematography of ‘Uncut Gems’

How did the Safdie brothers keep a perpetually moving Adam Sandler in focus? With a device called the Light Ranger 2. By Charles Bramesco