
Aja Romano
Former Senior Culture Writer
Latest articles by Aja Romano


This 11-year-old spelling bee champ schooled the internet in ruthlessness.


As a kid, Jordan Minor fabricated an entire history for an obscure cartoon called Street Sharks, and then walked away. But the internet didn’t.


Right-wing sci-fi writers tried to delegitimize the Hugo Awards by nominating a writer no one took seriously. Here’s how he took them all by surprise.


A retrofuturist Spotify playlist takes you into the future of the past. Cue the Moog synthesizers and electropop.


The new short Hyper-Reality takes you into a hellscape where augmented reality runs our lives.


Black Twitter’s #DemThrones hashtag has shifted to #ThronesYall after a heated debate over who started the trend of saying “Dem” and “Dat.”


Reddit’s attempt to crackdown on one extremist subreddit had unexpected, dramatic consequences.


“Bail is for the rich.”


The show is a willfully naive addition to Broadway’s complicated view of domestic violence.

The ever-expanding VR industry is about a lot more than just games.