digital culture

For the last month, Redditors in the Nier: Automata community were trying to solve a mystery. It involved a secret door, a church allegedly hidden in the game for five years, and roughly 175,000 fans debating whether it was real or one…

It has been eight days since Minions: The Rise of Gru premiered, and American movie theaters have not yet recovered. Gru-goers have arrived by the thousands, many wearing formal suits, cheering loudly, and occasionally pelting the screen…