Tribes in 2025](https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-taxonomy-of-present-day-kink-tribes/)—not purely represented by Gen Z, sure, but when you read it you’ll realize that many of these groups could never have been spawned from the imaginations of anyone who was born before the Nintendo 64 arrived. VICE’s Emma Garland—whose Substack, _**[Gabrielle](https://emmagarland.substack.com/)**_, is well worth a few of your dollars each month—took the lead with this one, and in the process saw things in the ‘Kamala Harris Hyena Prawn’ subreddit that she wishes she never had. Make the flashbacks worth it by reading her rundown now. Read Our Definitive Rundown of Gen Z Kink Tribes (https://www.vice.com/en/article/a-taxonomy-of-present-day-kink-tribes/) ----------View image: (https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/a24423d2-4b0a-421e-957c-e69f6050ef32/etc.png?t=1738697025) Follow image link: (http://vice.com/en/) Caption: ---------- View image: (https://media.beehiiv.com/cdn-cgi/image/fit=scale-down,format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=80/uploads/asset/file/e2b40afd-8dd4-4265-acfa-4306bf498436/image3.jpeg?t=1760181392) Follow image link: (https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-learned-how-to-bleed-my-boyfriend-to-indulge-my-vampire-kink/) Caption: -------------------- ## It’s That Time of Year, I Guess Last month, I received an email from a writer dangling a tantalizing proposition: she had signed up for a phlebotomy course. However, unlike the health professionals and medical students who’d also taken the course, Claire Lindsay had done so for the express reason of “indulging her vampire kink”: **_“I’m incredibly turned on by blood… while most people would be happy enough just to live out these fantasies vicariously via B-movies, I’ve always loved the idea of wearing someone’s blood as a necklace. Unfortunately, this isn’t the sort of thing you can reveal to a one-night stand. It’s hard to convince someone who doesn’t know your full name to let you slide a needle into their arm and wear their life force as an amulet._** **_“Then, at the beginning of the year, everything changed. I met a guy… I knew he was the chosen one, and it was time to collect his blood.”_** See how Claire navigated the suspicions of her peers, “a brief flush of shame,” and a fairly horrifying ‘training arm’ during her crash course in venepuncture. Read About Claire’s Adventures (https://www.vice.com/en/article/i-learned-how-to-bleed-my-boyfriend-to-indulge-my-vampire-kink/) We have some fairly huge news coming to you next week. Till then, **Kevin Lee Kharas** Editor, VICE magazine _Lead military e-girl picture by Ferry Gouw_ -------------------- ### _Psssst… _ _To get past the paywall, __**[_sign up for VICE membership_](https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-summer-issue-of-vice-magazine-is-out-now/)**__. A Digital Only subscription is $2 a month and turns off all the ads on _[_VICE.com_](https://VICE.com)_. Meanwhile, $70 a year gets you the full digital package plus 4 issues of VICE magazine, delivered straight to your door._ ---------- ——— You are reading a plain text version of this post. For the best experience, copy and paste this link in your browser to view the post online: https://vicemagazine.beehiiv.com/p/re-gen-z-slanderGen Z SlanderVICE undefined"pfeifferj@archlinux.ch" pfeifferj@archlinux.chB3