Selected Works from MEL Magazine
How Big Naturals Got Too Huge to Ignore
Referring to breasts as ‘big naturals’ is a meme too huge to ignore. It speaks to a truly basic desire — and in this era, we deserved the comfort.
Christopher Moltisanti Memes Are Our New Barometer for Mental Health
It’s been one year of feeling like The Sopranos’ tracksuited failson — wrapped despondently in a blanket, or nodding off on heroin in front of a corn dog stand.
As the Unemployed Move to OnlyFans, a New Market Emerges for Their Stolen Nudes
As the platform grows amid a long, horny quarantine, so do sites like Thothub that are devoted to leaking creators’ content
How Chumbawamba Tricked Everyone Into Thinking ‘Tubthumping’ Was a Pop Song
At first glance, ‘Tubthumping’ is a saccharine, smooth-brained drinking song designed to be shouted in pubs. But below the surface, it’s a Trojan horse designed to covertly deliver anarcho-communism to the masses
After photos of Del Rey and her new boyfriend Jack Donoghue surfaced online, many complained that he looked too pedestrian, Midwestern or like a January 6th insurrectionist. But really, who did you expect?
The Subreddit Where Beta Men Go to Watch Porn They Can’t See
Armed with the arousing belief that only alpha men deserve to see nude women — hint, not them — they censor each other’s porn so heavily that they’re not getting off to porn at all