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<p>Anna is a freelance writer with far too much time on her hands. When she&#8217;s not writing about memes and internet slang, she can be found running TTRPGs online.</p>


Anna Good

Left: Blonde woman in a white shirt looking into camera. Right: Screenshot of a PetSmart employee in a PetSmart store, text overlay reads, "Today PetSmart refused to sell me a bearded dragon until I bought the biggest tank! Instead of the setuup that said it was for a bearded dragon."

“Not a toy”: Woman calls out PetSmart  for refusing to sell her a bearded dragon without a large tank—the internet sides with PetSmart

Viral Politics

“Beyond parody”: The internet can’t process RFK Jr and Kid Rock’s jeans-on, milk-drinking workout video

McDonald’s is getting into the trading card game with fan favorites like Grimace, Fry Girl, and Ronald McDonald

Left: Two older woman standing on the sidewalk in a confrontation. Right: Older woman in a magenta long-sleeve shirt sitting in a chair.

Culture

“Real Housewives of Mahjong Manor.”: The retirement home Mahjong cheating scandal going massively viral, explained

Left: Middle-aged man sitting in the aisle seat of a Boeing 747, staring at whoever is filming him on their phone. Right: Man in a white cap with a drink in hand laying in the aisle of an American Airlines plane.

“I saw her swimming the Rio Grande”: Belligerent man threatens to call ICE on flight attendant, gets booted off American Airlines flight

Memes

Team USA defenseman Quinn Hughes goes viral for his expressions: “Haunted by the ghost of a Victorian child”

L: Clavicular and Baby Sinclar, R: Baby Sinclair riding a John Deere tractor and drinking beer

The internet turned Baby Sinclair into a jorts-wearing redneck meme

Student in a high school with his right arm cocked back, ready to throw a punch. Tweet text overlay reads, "“you’re gonna get in trouble for that” “okay” [punch] legitimately one pf the coolest responses of all time."

Pro-ICE troll gets punched at school. The kid who did it is now a meme legend

olympian Amber Glenn performing at the olympics and holding magic cards in the other

Amber Glenn is both an Olympic champion and proud “Magic: The Gathering” player

Left: Pink service dog harness on a small apple head chihuahua being walked on a sidewalk walkway path. Text box overlay reads, "Stop bringing your phony service animal. You're an f-ing a**hole if you are still doing this." Right: Two cheerful Asian women are enjoying talking while watching a content on the TikTok application on an iPhone. Text box overlay reads, "Stop watching TikTok videos in the waiting room at full volume"

18 things customer service workers wish you’d stop doing immediately

caleb mclaughlin in stranger things vs speaking on a talk show

Entertainment

“Stranger Things” actor Caleb McLaughlin weighs in on Conformity Gate: “The show is done, guys”

photos of cardi b and a tweet from DHS that says "As long as she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behavior."

Cardi B’s mid-concert ICE comments sparked a DHS response on social media. She fired right back

Left: Waymo self driving taxi driving in downtown San Francisco, California. Right: Screenshot of a DoorDash screenshot offering driver $6.25 to close a Waymo door.

DoorDash drivers say they’re being paid to shut Waymo car doors around town

Left: Aerial shot of a modern Ford factory in a sepia tone. Right: President Donald Trump with a middle finger lifted, his hand blurred out.

Trump tells Ford worker who yelled at him “you’re fired”—he never lost his job

Staples employee dubbed the "Staples baddie" working in a Staples store, holding up a planner with text overlay reading, "Planners with the Staples baddie."