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Rebecca Leib

Screenshot of Tiktok user @hey.its_em; Photo of a Pinterest page on a laptop with the Pinterest logo.

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Culture

Watch: Woman finds Pinterest hack that blocks ads in seconds—users are begging the app not to patch it

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Teen boys are peeing on each other’s hair to Creed now. That’s it, that’s the meme

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‘Ferris Bueller-level technology’: Teen uses AI clone of her mom’s voice to call out of school (and even fooled her dad)

Women confused, as she finds numerous white seed appear on her Airbnb rented house counter, asks for advice

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‘I got rid of them but the next morning they were there again’: Airbnb renter spots strange ‘seeds’ in kitchen. Then she finds out what they really are

Screenshots from X user @DiscussingFilm of a movie theater audience reacting to the Minecraft movie and a screenshot of police entering said movie theatre.

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People are having insane reactions to the new Minecraft movie’s ‘Chicken Jockey’ scene

3 panel image of people reacting to the Benny song.

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People are pranking their moms using a fake (but super catchy) Justin Bieber diss track about Benny Blanco

Screenshot of Tiktok user @alyssaaazander and her partner; Screenshot from Tiktok user @alyssaaazander of her baking cookies with her partner with the caption: "I didn't realize how much this was actually alienating him"

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After a breakup, this couple reunited stronger—they say this one change made all the difference

3 panel image: on the sides are Teslas leaving garages and in the middle is Taylor Swift.

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Taylor Swift becomes the anthem for Tesla trade-ins in growing #ByeTesla trend

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‘Not to be dramatic but I’m traumatized’: The yarn makeup trend is pure nightmare fuel

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‘Go be a girl boss millionaire in an apartment alone’: Childfree woman’s TikTok sparks fury and eye-rolling on X

Screenshot from Tiktok user @mel.jpeg; Screenshot from Tiktok user @terhorrible

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Memes

The viral ‘Shoebody Bop’ meme is giving Adult Swim, ADHD panic, and maybe…satanism?

3 panel image: showing 3 people dealing with the British Tea Time alarm.

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‘I’m being gaslit by an entire country’: Our friends across the pond are taking the piss with the ‘British tea time alarm’ TikTok trend

Left: Screenshot of a cat with the caption "POV: my Muslim cat confused why everyone's up eatting breakfast at 4:54AM [laughing crying face emoji]"; Center: Screenshot of a cat with the caption "My muslim cat confused why everyone is suddenly awake eating a full meal at 4am"; Right: Screenshot of a cat with the caption "POV: the [sun emoji] is out and your confused Ramadan cat is now confused why you [sparkle emoji] did not [sparkle emoji] wake up for suhoor.

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‘My Muslim cat is confused’: Ramadan cats are sleepy, baffled, and have totally taken over TikTok

Left: Screenshot of Jeniffer Castro from Tiktok user @antenasulfm's viral video; Right: Photo of Jeniffer Castro from her Instagram @jeniffercastro

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‘No one deserves this’: Passenger filmed and shamed for not giving up her seat to crying kid—now she’s suing the airline and the bystander

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‘There was no warning’: Women are pretending they’re a random girl to shock their men