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Jamie Jirak has been working as an entertainment journalist since 2017. In addition to The Daily Dot, you can find her latest work at SlashFilm and That Hashtag Show. Jamie resides in Los Angeles and co-hosts two podcasts, Phase Hero and Love in the Time of Hydra. She loves moderating panels and has done so for Marvel, Disney, Netflix, and more. Follow her on Letterboxd: @JamieJirak.

Jamie Jirak

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13-year-old boy Sullivan Clarke during an interview appaerance on Fox News "The Ingraham Angle" sitting next to his mother, a blonde woman in a white sleeveless top.

“Funniest kid on the planet”: 13-year-old survives throat slashing, but goes viral for clowning interview reactions

Susan is a freelance writer following humanity one UGC at a time.

Susan LaMarca

Left: iPhone 18 phone being charged using a MagSafe-style charging cord. Right: Woman's hand holding a MagSafe-style charging cord, texting overlay reads, "Yesterday I got the iPhone 18 and this the charger."

Culture

“I’m switching to Samsung”: People keep “unboxing” the new iPhone 18 charger—but it’s all a bit

Left: Photo of a woman holding a phone on a computer screen, speaking into it, text overlay reads, "POV: You call to cancel your Spectrum wifi and the lady goes crazy on you." Right: Spectrum van.

“This is crazy”: Spectrum rep screams and berates customer trying to cancel service

Tech

Disneyland’s “MuppetVision 3D” will be released on the Apple Vision Pro. Here’s why Brian Henson is okay with it

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.

Anna Good

Left: Men's U.S. Oympic hockey team locker room, men celebrating their win, a hand seen holding a phone. Text overlay reads, "President Trump invites the US hockey team to the state of the union." Right: FBI director Kash Patel partying in the men's hockey team locker room after their Olympic gold win.

Viral Politics

“Rot in hell”: Team USA hockey slammed for laughing at Trump’s sexist locker room joke

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