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<p>Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.</p>


Lindsey Weedston

Left: Man holding a smartphone and playing the Fortnite game on the smartphone screen. Right: Gambling style wheel in "Steal The Brainrot," a developer game within the Fortnite video game.

“Innately predatory”: Critics slam Epic Games for approving a gambling-style “slot machine” for kids in Fortnite

Barbie pink tones glowing sparkles blurred background. Mattel's new Autistic Barbie overlay.

“Talk about sensory overload”: Mattel’s autistic Barbie is here and the community has complicated feelings

Left: Alabama Barker holding a pair of feathered heels from her Christmas haul TikTok video, text overlay reads, "My new vocal stim:" Right: Tweet text overlay reads "Nasty. With a pucci outfit? NASTYYYYY" on an abstract Pucci design background of orange, brown, and beige.

Memes

“Nasty, with a Pucci outfit, nasty”: Alabama Barker’s Christmas haul is TikTok’s fave new vocal stim

President Donald Trump with pink hair standing in front of an American flag into a microphone, giving a speech at the Kennedy Center.

Viral Politics

Hairstylist reveals why Trump’s hair appeared pink in his latest appearance

3 panel: Left: Man pointing to an Instagram Reels screenshot above his head, text overlay reads, "Instagram recession is real." Middle: Instagram logo on pink and orange background. Right: Man in a hoodie and glasses looking into the camera, text overlay reads, "Instagram fall off needs to be studied."

“100 likes is the new 1000”: Creators say Instagram likes have fallen off a cliff. Here’s why

Left: Logo for social media app X- white on black. Right: Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., speaks during the Atreju convention in Rome.

Culture

“This is actually worse”: Grok limits its disturbing “undressing” feature to paying users

Left: Matt Damon during an interview. Right: Matt Damon in costume as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey."

Entertainment

“I stopped eating gluten”: Matt Damon details the intense diet and training that helped him drop 30 pounds for “The Odyssey”

Bad news if someone calls you a “choppelganger”—Gen Z’s favorite new diss

Left: Tweet reading "When I learned about "lowkirkenuinely" I had to just sit with it and process it for about two days." Yellow background of repeating "thug life" meme black glasses pixel art. Right: Man with dreadlocks looking into the camera underneath text reading "lowkirkenuinely."

“Lowkirkenuinely” is the latest example of meme language going too far

Samsung Galaxy Ring painfully swelling around a man's index finger. Tweet text overlay reads, "Samsung Galaxy Ring – Update #3 It’s been just over three months since my last update, and I can finally share where things stand."

“Corpo slop”: Owner of Galaxy Ring that caused ER visit shares Samsung’s investigation results. Users aren’t reassured

Left: TikTok screenshot of a 2026 punch card. Text overlay reads, "How I made my 2026 punch cards" above a card reading "self date." Middle: Text reading "2026 punch cards" above a woman holding little cards reading, one of which reads "consistence @ gym." Right: Punch card reading "Drink 2 water bottles."

Forget bingo cards—2026 punch cards are how TikTok is tracking goals now

Left: An American Airlines Airbus A320 sits on the ramp at Ronald Reagan National Airport. Right: Birds eye view photo taken of passenger sitting in an airplane seat, his neighbor's bare feet nearly touching his thigh.

“What would you have done???”: Passenger asked to switch plane seats, ends up next to the worst neighbor possible

Left: Game map from Red Dead Redemption 2 video game. Right: RDR2 in-game easter egg showing 5 crosses etched into a telephone pole.

“Red Dead Redemption 2” fans find the next steps—and possible ending—to the spider web Easter egg

ali g let the fit ones in next to donald trump

“Policy advice from Ali G”: Half of all O-1B visas for artists are now going to influencers and models

Left: Man looking into the camera wearing glasses, text overlay reads, "It's impossible to own pets now." Right: Children joyfully playing with a friendly dog in a sunny yard.