Kieran is a Junior Digital Culture Reporter at Insider. He writes about TikTok influencers, internet trends, and music. Before joining Insider, he freelanced for NYT, Pitchfork, Bandcamp, and Variety.
Favorite pieces:
I spent all night on TikTok Live, and discovered a wasteland of clickbait, scams, and other oddities. It got stranger and darker by the hour.
An 18-year-old invented a new genre of meme-heavy music called 'dariacore' that's like 'pop music on steroids'
A profile of Twitch streamer Hasan Piker.
I watched hours of the AI-generated 'Seinfeld' series before it was banned for a transphobic remark. Beyond that scandal, it's also a frustratingly mindless show.
Meet Quinn, the 16-year-old internet musician who was the young face of hyperpop until she deleted everything and started over
'I am living in a Kafka novel': A Welsh Town Councillor explains how online rumors he's Banksy made him resignncG1vNJzZmivp6x7o8HSoqWeq6Oeu7S1w56pZ5ufonyiwdOhpqtnm56ys63NZqernaOoerOx2KempZyj