‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glasses bridges with rocks

If you haven’t taken a scroll through Instagram Reels, you do not know how phony and outrageous AI videos can be. My favorite genre of obviously fake AI videos all involve comically heroic animals. There is, of course, the video of a woman breaking a glass bridge with a boulder. Luckily, there is a happy …
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‘Help!’: We can’t get enough of AI videos showing women breaking glass bridges with rocks

If you haven’t taken a scroll through Instagram Reels, you do not know how phony and outrageous AI videos can be. My favorite genre of obviously fake AI videos all involve comically heroic animals. There is, of course, the video of a woman breaking a glass bridge with a boulder. Luckily, there is a happy …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 7, 2025)

The clock app has been around for long enough that it has had an impact on all those who are chronically online enough at this point, whether they are constantly referring to their For You page or they can’t think of a worse way to pass the time. Whether you are willing to appreciate it …
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‘I think I just hate working’: Gen Z prompts sympathy after crashing out about working 8 to 5 job

Kim Kardashian raised eyebrows only a few short years ago when she declared that «nobody wants to work». For all she may have been hypocritical, many would argue that she wasn’t wrong. This isn’t just the out-of-touch boomers complaining that the younger generations refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but also a large …
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‘Feral Child Summer’ is the Millennial Parenting Antidote to iPad Babies

Remember summers when you were a kid in the 1990s? Behind the brainrot doom-scrolling fog, there are memories of summers spent outdoors. In my hometown of Chicago, that meant running around public parks playing made-up games, setting off (probably illegal) fireworks on the Fourth of July, and my mom having only a vague idea of …
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New Yorker claims all NYC transplants should have to volunteer to atone for taking from the city: ‘If the only thing you’re contributing is your taxes, you are ultimately a loser’

There is a seemingly never-ending stream of online discourse about NYC «transplants.» A transplant is someone who moves to a city that they didn’t grow up in, and allegedly makes it worse with their tacky, trendy consumption habits. It’s essentially the 21st-century version of a yuppie. Transplant discourse is not solely a New York City …
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Lazy coworker brags about having free time at work on social media, hardworking coworker tattles to management: ‘We never have a slow MOMENT at work, let alone a slow day’

We’ve all had one of those coworkers who doesn’t do what they’re supposed to do. If you’re on the same level as someone, it’s easy to notice that one or two people are carrying the bulk of the work, while another employee is twiddling their thumbs and getting the same pay/credit for doing much less. …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 5, 2025)

For most of this decade, it has become increasingly hard to keep up with the times as we know them without in some way being connected to TikTok. This isn’t necessarily a positive development, but it has brought us the entertaining side effect of more and more people deciding to become TikTokers. It has given …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 29, 2025)

In this day and age, if there wasn’t an account of something on TikTok, did it even happen at all? It feels like the clock app is the new rite of passage for every news story, viral moment, and wannabe celebrity. It is living proof that social media has a big say in society today, …
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Corporate Influencers are Trying to Romanticize the 9-to-5, and It’s Not Working

Social media is full of aspirational content: Extensive beauty routines, constant travel, and suites of pricey products flood our feeds. But what about all of us with regular, unglamorous jobs? Turns out there are influencers for that too. So-called «9-to-5 influencers» like Davis Clarke and Connor Hubbard. They do their best to show that the …
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