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

It’s been a wild time.

Woman Walking Her Dog on the Beach Stumbles Upon a Washed Up Wallet, Turns Out It’s the Wallet She Dropped Overboard Last Year

Sometimes the universe gives you a break—maybe it’s a year later—but right when you’re about to give up, you see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

Mansplaining Golfer doesn’t realize he’s talking to a PGA professional, cringe ensues: ‘This is actually mental’

Chances are, if you’re a woman, you’ve been on the receiving end of a mansplaining. It’s a new-ish term for a phenomenon as old as time. A woman is minding her own business, doing something she knows how to do, or talking about something she’s educated on, and a man swoops in to «well, actually» …
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Couple Cuts off the Bottoms of Their Shoes To Walk Barefoot in Public Incognito

I have never been a «barefoot» person unless you mean strawberry Barefoot wine that I drank while going batty from social isolation in the spring of 2021! I have lived in cities my entire adult life and feel no need to go out on the sidewalk and expose my epidermis to the elements any more …
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‘His mental state is FINISHED’: Guy blasts Drake song so loud it sets off car alarms in his neighborhood

If our responses to Elmo’s tweet are any indication, we’re not doing so hot. As a culture, as a society, we’re pretty down bad. And what do you do when you’re feeling in dire need of a little comfort… run to Cheezburger.com? Yes, absolutely. But right after that, you might be heading to Spotify to …
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‘The gate attendant actually tried to scan it’: Guy brings billboard-sized boarding pass on plane

Pranks are simultaneously the bane of the internet and its greatest asset. We’ve all seen the great breaches of human decency that get passed off as pranks by intrepid YouTubers, but we’ve also all laughed at that girl choking on a Dairy Queen straw after her sister tapped the brakes. There is a delicate line …
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Weekly Internet Roundup: Tech Layoff Clapbacks, Orange Peel Theory, and King Charles vs. Trisha Paytas

Another normal few days online.

‘Imagine cups being your personality’: Customers sell out Stanley Cups in 4 minutes, sparking debate about water bottle consumerism

There have been a lot of water bottle trends over the past 20 years. From Kleen Kanteens to the ones with a spray feature attached that nobody seems to remember but me (does anyone remember those from the early 2010s) to hydro flasks, every couple of years, the tides seem to turn, and a new …
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‘I wanna help my customers out’: Influencer secretly works at Target for free, gives customers free gift cards all day long

Target is famously one of the most difficult stores to get a job at. If you go on down to Hobby Lobby, Five Below, or Walmart and drop off your application, you’ve got a better chance than not of getting hired. Target is a different story. They won’t just hire any random ne’er-do-well to work …
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