Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Happy Friday! Our top stories today are about: Amazon employees claiming the company mishandled a warehouse death over the holidays, a DoorDasher going viral for sharing what they called the”weirdest tip ever“from a customer, a look at why the reception for Glass Onion is different on streaming than it was in theaters, and how Tesla fanboys are using a tragedy to praise the vehicle.
After that, our Senior Culture Editor Tiffany has her “This Week on the Internet” column and if you scroll down to the bottom, she’s also got her pick for meme of the week.
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See you tomorrow!
— A.W.
⚡ Today’s top stories
📦 LABOR
‘Literally walking over a dead body’: Amazon employees accuse company of mishandling holiday warehouse death
Several viral social media posts allege that management stacked boxes around his corpse and had employees continue working mere feet away.
💰 VIRAL
DoorDash driver says customer gave him ‘the weirdest’ tip ever
A DoorDasher is going viral after showing how a customer tipped him with something… unique.
🎬 CULTURE
‘Glass Onion’ got a more mixed reception on Netflix
As the film’s release on Netflix over the holiday demonstrated, it’s gotten a much different reception between its short theatrical run and its streaming debut.
🚗 TECH
A man drove his Tesla off a cliff to try and murder his family—Elon Musk fanboys found a way to celebrate it
While the general public reacted in horror to the incident, some Tesla fanboys used the tragedy to praise the self-driving vehicle.
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🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
🧇 Two TikTokers are going viral for documenting how they snuck into a hotel to get a free breakfast.
📺 Netflix is facing criticism for once again cancelling a show after just one season.
🍷 A video where a customer caught a server measuring wine into a glass at a restaurant is getting a lot of attention from people online.
🍨 A Baskin-Robbins customer is calling out the store for being closed due to understaffing when she was scheduled to pick up an ice cream cake for her daughter’s birthday.
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⏲️ This worker says their boss handed him a timer to make sure he didn’t take his break for more than 10 minutes.
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🍔 In a video with over 904,000 views, a TikToker says that the manager of his McDonald’s offered $50 an hour to anyone willing to work on a certain day due to staff shortages.
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📅 Meme of the Week
The Benoit Blanc voice meme has really taken off since Glass Onion started streaming on Netflix.
