Back when everyone was still learning what virality was, internet fame seemed like a capricious beast. A guy could post a grainy lip dub of a Moldovan Eurodance tune, and then the song is sampled in a single that tops the Billboard Hot 100; a dad films his young kids joking around together for their …
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20+ Funniest Memes and Reactions to the Tesla ‘Cyber Truck’ That Epically Roast Elon Musk
Remember when Tesla first came out with the Cyber Truck and it quickly went downhill? There were so many problems with it, raccoons kept confusing it as actual dumpster, and (our favorite outcome) the memes exploded. There’s nothing we love more than a serious thing becoming a pivotal moment in meme culture. Obviously, we LIVE …
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‘He just left 4 kids to do that’: Daughter tells story of father abandoning family to become a break dancer, faces cringey clapback from dad himself
Rare is the individual who doesn’t have some kind of issue related to their parents. Even those who can boast a respectable relationship with their mom and dad usually have something that could easily be hashed out in therapy, so spare a thought for those kids who have to be raised (or not) by straight-up …
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Twitter Reacts to Techno Mechanicus, the Secret Third Child of Grimes and Elon Musk
Baby names have long been one of those areas in which famous people are liable to get a little too, shall we say, «creative». Nobody comes up with a moniker made for playground teasing quite like certain celebrities. In recent years, the most notorious of these has to be Grimes and Elon Musk. When they …
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Iconic Instances of Community Notes Proving Tweets Wrong
I’m afraid Twitter has not been faring well lately under the management of Elon Musk. It seems like every new idea he has came from a binder that was labeled «THINGS TWITTER INC SHOULD NEVER DO.» Despite it all, the website keeps marching on, with schmucks like me who can’t quit the bird app staying …
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20+ Keanu Reeves Memes to Appreciate the Ultra-Wholesome Actor
Now, I’m largely against the deification of any public figures. It’s much too far a leap to idolize an individual based on their public persona. Look at Elon Musk as an example. A few years back, the internet treated him as some sort of real-life Tony Stark. An individual who was fighting for a brighter …
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Weekly Internet Roundup: Twitter Rebrands as X, Aliens Crash UFOs, and Adults Still Like Turtles
A glance at the week that was.
Twitter Gets Rebranded as X, Former Twitter Users React
For the past nine months, being on Twitter has been like riding a rollercoaster — if the rollercoaster was one terrifying plunge after another that seemingly came out of nowhere, and also the tracks were on fire. Ever since Elon Musk assumed ownership of the platform, much of its userbase have been waiting for the …
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Twitter Reacts to the Threads App Launch
Meta has officially launched its Threads app. Created as a clear and intentional Twitter competitor, the new platform has shaken up the internet. It seems Threads has come at the perfect time. A lot of people, myself included, have grown a bit tired of the constant shakeups on Twitter. The Elon Musk acquisition and his …
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People React to Twitter’s Unverified User Viewing Limit of 600 Posts Per Day
After the distractions of cage fights and other frivolities, did you think we were safe from Elon Musk’s mission to single-handedly run Twitter into the ground? Well, think again. In a move that promises to be one of the most upsetting shakeups yet, the world’s most annoying billionaire announced temporary restrictions on how many tweets …
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