We’ve hit peak lens flare. Here’s how it started.

We’ve reached peak lens flare. Vox’s Phil Edwards explains how it happened. Subscribe to our channel! Lens flare: it’s familiar from the very shiny work of J.J. Abrams, but it goes far beyond his flare-strewn canon. Lens flare has a long history and a lot of different meanings. is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to