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Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age

Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age

We shine a spotlight on the uplifting stories happening within our digital landscape.

Colman Domingo and his husband at the 2025 Oscars.
Colman Domingo’s Craigslist love story with husband Raúl has the internet swooning
two hands reaching out of laptops to form a hand heart
High school sweethearts met on a quiz website
three tiktok screenshots about buddies
Sobbing Brooklyn coffee shop owner goes viral on TikTok, sparks a surge of support
two people within an iphone screen surrounded by colorful cords
They met on Tumblr, and their relationship outlasted their accounts
Anna Iovine and Kat Tenbarge, two white women with brown hair, are seen emerging from a shining phone screen
How one tweet led me to meet my partner
screenshots of tiktoks of people singing the axolotl song
'Ask an Axolotl' is TikTok's sweet, comforting viral ditty

Features

A friendship bracelet-laden hand holding up a phone with Bluesky open. Can stan Twitter be recreated on Bluesky? Swifties think so.
A composite of cute animals on the internet: a baby sloth, a baby hippo, a ragdoll cat, and a baby penguin From Moo Deng to Pesto the Penguin, here are the cutest animals taking over our feeds
A group of women in workout clothes smiling and laughing surrounded by books, drinks, popcorn, and no wifi. Unlearning loneliness: How TikTok is rewriting the rules of connection
Jamal Hinton, Wanda Dench, and an unidentified male guest standing in front of a dining table set with a Thanksgiving dinner. Viral Thanksgiving grandma and guest share their eighth holiday with Airbnb stranger
Three screenshots of the Brentwood and Cincinnati Public Library accounts. Libraries take to TikTok to build community and new cultural relevance
More Good Connection: Uplifting stories for a digital age
The people who found love on Twitter
By Tim Marcin
illustration of twitter birds chirping hearts
BookTok is the 'last wholesome place' on the internet. Can it stay that way?
By Kimi Chaddah
A composite of screenshots from different TikTok accounts on BookTok.
6 'Pokémon Go' players explain how the game has changed their lives
By Sam Haysom
illustration of person with pokemon
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