Weekly Internet Roundup: Ad Spam on X, Kate Middleton Disappearance Rumors, and the Willy Wonka Immersive Experience

It’s been a wild time.

Willy Wonka experience uses AI renderings to sell tickets, delivers bleak nightmare: ‘They charged $45 for this’

Snake oil salesmen have been around as long as we’ve had snakes and oil. Conmen have been preying on our vulnerabilities for decades, if not centuries, and they find new ways to get us every year. Sure, maybe we’ve evolved past thinking a dubious «miracle elixir» that smells suspiciously like urine is going to make …
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20+ Old Posts and Past Declarations That Aged Like Milk

It’s very easy to be smug in the present, especially if we ended up being on the right side of history. We all know the internet is full of people doing stupid things, and this is never truer than when we look to its past (or when it’s representing the past). Everybody has made mistakes that …
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45+ of the Freshest and Funniest Tweets of the Week (February 24, 2024)

Another glorious week on the haunted graveyard that is the website formerly known as Twitter. The app has gone through many iterations in its time, from its inception as a fun little way for celebrities to say how much they love tacos, to its heyday of funny accounts, to the wild wild west epitomized by …
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Weekly Internet Roundup: Will Smith’s AI Spaghetti, Breakdancing Dads, and 50 Part TikTok Dramas

Also, chocolate-covered strawberries take over TikTok.

Weekly Internet Roundup: Photoshopped Landings, Sydney Sweeney on ‘Hot Ones’, and Trauma Dumping on Elmo

Also: TikTok loses (some) music.

Weekly Internet Roundup: Cargo Pant Proposals, Barbie Oscars Discourse, and Disturbances at the Rat Hole

Also, is Gen Z aging faster than previous generations?

Weekly Internet Roundup: Tech Layoff Clapbacks, Orange Peel Theory, and King Charles vs. Trisha Paytas

Another normal few days online.

‘I’d hate to see what goes on at Bass Amateur Shops’: Alabama man skinny dips in Bass Pro Shops fish tank, becomes first viral celebrity of 2024

Bass Pro Shops is a meme that will never die. So long as meme makers still have a place in their hearts for ironic fishing memes and the Memphis Bass Pro Pyramid stays in good repair, we’re golden.  Nonetheless, it always helps when somebody is dedicated enough to the cause that they directly contribute to …
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