Punk Is Now Actually Dead

2015: The Year In Digg, Crossing The Tundra With Siberia's Reindeer Herders, The KKK Used To Be A Pyramid Scheme, How To Look Punk: A Ridiculous 1977 Guide For Wannabes Anarchists, UFC Porn Is Real And It's Spectacular, Why Does The World Hate Mast Brothers Chocolate? The Daily Digg Wednesday, December 23, 2015 THE TASTIEST CONTENT 2015: The Year In Digg digg.com We at Digg take great pride in finding the Internet's tastiest content. Every day, we lap it all up — news stories, longform, videos, Vines and so on — then spit back only the good stuff. So here's a summary of what got the tongues wagging this year. BLITZEN TRAPPERS Crossing The Tundra With Siberia's Reindeer Herders buzzfeed.com Long before Santa first hitched Rudolph to his sleigh, reindeer served a much less whimsical role: dinner. COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED TO A NICER BUNCH The KKK Used To Be A Pyramid Scheme priceonomics.com In its heyday, the KKK was a giant, perverse pyramid scheme. Instead of perpetrating a racist agenda, the KKK's leaders exploited pre-existing, popular racism to make money. OKAY, NOW PUNK IS DEAD How To Look Punk: A Ridiculous 1977 Guide For Wannabes Anarchists flashbak.com Punk always had a hard commercial edge. Punk sold. And that meant getting the punk look. You too could look rebellious, anarchic and stick two fingers up to everyone else by, er, looking like whatshisface off the telly. FACELOCKS JUST GOT HOTTER UFC Porn Is Real And It's Spectacular vocativ.com Going deep into the fascinating world of fight-themed pornography. THEIR BEARDS? Why Does The World Hate Mast Brothers Chocolate? digg.com A few weeks back, a Dallas food site dropped a massive, multi-part expos​é about Mast Brothers Chocolate Makers, revealing that the company has not always produced the fancy-schmancy "bean-to-bar" chocolate it claims to sell. And now people are angry. What the heck is going on? Get more stories on Digg.com WINTER MIRRORLAND The Moscow GUM State Department store decorated with New Year and Christmas illumination reflected in a wall of a skating rink at Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2015. It's usually the cold that's bitter in Moscow in December, but this year it's the humor that bites during an unusual warm spell and temperatures climbed as high as 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit). In the Russian capital in recent days, a joke began circulating on the Internet: This was nature's compensation for Russians being unable to take vacations in Egypt and Turkey this year — two top destinations for Russian winter holidays. Credit: AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 Digg Inc. 50 Eldridge St, NY, NY 10002