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Photo-illustration by Sonya Olomskaya; photographs by Getty Images Montana lawmakers have voted to outlaw the app, and the federal government is toying with the same idea. But with Instagram and Twitter in steep decline, what will be left of social media if we lose TikTok?   By Kate Lindsay April 19, 2023 One Friday in spring

Photograph courtesy of Amazon The unwitting star of the hit Amazon Freevee reality show (and TikTok obsession) speaks: “The idea that it was fake was even crazier than what was happening.” By Kate Lindsay April 19, 2023 Ronald Gladden, 30, is the type of guy often described as a golden retriever. But he might be

Illustrations by Ohni Lisle Thirty-three of our favorite artists, writers, musicians, designers, and big thinkers share the mysterious rituals and dirty tricks behind their greatest work. By The Editors of GQ April 18, 2023 Creativity can feel ineffable. Mysterious. Elusive. A “you have it or you don’t” type of thing. In reality, it’s for everyone.

Lily-Rose Depp and Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye’s HBO series The Idol will finally debut June 4. A new trailer—which follows an investigation that alleged a toxic environment on set—reveals Lily Rose-Depp’s “nasty bad pop girl” and The Weeknd’s club owner-slash-cult leader. By Grant Rindner April 17, 2023 Since HBO first announced it in late 2021, The

Photographs: Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte GQ went to Coachella, where the generational artist gave his first live show in six years on Sunday evening. Despite its late start and early end, Ocean’s performance through grief was a chaotic triumph. By Eileen Cartter April 17, 2023 “It’s been so long. Everybody talks about how long

Alan Ruck and Jeremy Strong in Succession season 4 episode 4.Courtesy of David M. Russell for HBO. The future of Waystar Royco, and Succession, hinges on a pencil scribble that no one can confidently decipher. By Esther Zuckerman April 17, 2023 Logan Roy is dead, but as Succession plunges to its finish, his children are still trying

Hiam Abbass as Marcia Roy in Succession season four, episode four. David M. Russell At last, Succession’s most quietly cunning character makes her return—and leaves us thinking that she could win it all. By Gabriella Paiella April 16, 2023 Spoilers for Succession ahead. Marcia! Where the hell have you been, loca?  Succession season four, episode four was packed with

The writer David Grann and a piece of wild celery on the remote coast of Patagonia. Photographs: Portrait courtesy of David Grann, Doubleday, Getty Images; Collage: Gabe Conte He’s been your favorite writer’s favorite writer for decades. But with a thrilling new book and an unprecedented back-to-back collaboration with Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, David Grann

Teyonah Parris as Captain Monica Rambeau in The Marvels.Courtesy of Marvel Studios  Trolls are review-bombing the MCU’s female-led led film ahead of its November release, for one obvious, sad reason. By Carrie Wittmer April 14, 2023 Earlier this week, Marvel dropped a teaser trailer for The Marvels, director Nia DaCosta’s upcoming film uniting Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel,

Last night, GQ toasted the members of its new Web3 community with an A-list-heavy group of artists, editors, models and more in downtown New York. By The Editors of GQ Photography by Krista Schlueter April 14, 2023 Last night in New York City, GQ celebrated the launch of its Web3 community by opening the doors

Elijah Wood.Zack DeZon / Getty The veteran actor talks about his role in TV’s freakiest series, and what he makes of the new Lord of the Rings movies.  By Gabriella Paiella April 14, 2023 “I’m fascinated by cults,” Elijah Wood says, trademark blue eyes widening. “Serial killers were always really interesting to me.”  Though the actor

Ali Wong and Steven Yeun in the surreal season finale of Beef.Courtesy of Andrew Cooper for Netflix. “I’ve been reading some online reactions of certain people feeling like the show kind of went off the rails, and they’re right. The show very clearly does go off the rails.” By Cat Cardenas April 13, 2023 Spoilers

The longtime reality TV fixture is one of the most beloved plastic surgeons in the country, someone so skilled with a scalpel that he can fix the supposedly unfixable. And now he has a message for anyone looking to get some work done. By Eve Peyser Photography by Sinna Nasseri April 13, 2023 Mikeal was

Luh Tyler.Courtesy of Chris Allmeid. The 17-year-old Florida rapper is making some of the freshest music in hip-hop. By John Norris April 12, 2023 On the third day of Rolling Loud California this past March, the Sunshine State turned out for the Golden State. Ski Mask the Slump God, Danny Towers and DJ Scheme—leading voices

In the Penguin series coming to Max, Colin Farrell will reprise his role from The Batman as the titular villain.Courtesy of Max. Warner Bros. Discovery flooded the timeline with a bunch of new trailers and projects today to distract from its bemusing streaming service name change. By Grant Rindner April 12, 2023 Warner Bros. Discovery

Willa and Connor actually got married amidst that other big event in the “Connor’s Wedding” episode of Succession.Courtesy of David M. Russell for HBO. Despite everything else going on in this week’s episode, the show’s most tragic romance found time for a little tenderness. By Esther Zuckerman April 12, 2023 “Connor’s Wedding” is a slightly

Coat, $3,250, and pants, $990, by Versace. Tank top, $46 for pack of three, by Calvin Klein. Shoes, $1,550, by Ferragamo. Watch, $25,300, by Audemars Piguet. The comedian became a megastar with Rush Hour and then seemed to disappear from the spotlight, re-emerging every couple of years or so. Now after the longest  sabbatical of his career,

Brie Larson as Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers in The Marvels.Marvel Studios The Phase 5 adventure is going to put Carol Danvers, Monica Rambeau and Kamala Khan through all sorts of body swap hijinks. By William Goodman April 11, 2023 The Marvels, the forthcoming sequel to Captain Marvel and the third film to hit in this topsy-turvey year for

The collaboration between the most electric skateboarder and the definitive skate documentarian of our era has taken their careers—and the very limits of skateboarding—to new levels. By Farran Golding Photography by Ari Marcopoulos April 11, 2023 In 2012, the New York filmmaker William Strobeck was tasked with shooting a commercial for Supreme. When he arrived

Kevin Condon, Courtesy of Knockdown Center The extremely online comic gathered a few thousand people in real life for a night that is best described as Coachella for Adult Swim fans. By Matthew Roberson April 10, 2023 “Forty is the new 69!” Standing onstage at the Knockdown Center in Queens, New York, wearing a powder