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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

A photo of the new actors cast to play the 3 leads I the upcoming Harry Potter TV show. A tweet over reads: black incel snape is going to bully a little white boy over his failed swirler fantasies and malfoy about to call a brown girl a filthy mudblood. this gonna be worse than a tyler perry production.

Culture

“Protect them from the fandom”: HBO reveals new Harry Potter trio. Fans already have strong opinions

2 panel image a of a person explaining and text that reads: Ryo Tatsuki. The Future I See is predictive dreams she had between 1985 and 1999.

The internet believes a 1999 manga is predicting a massive July earthquake—and it’s tanking tourism to Japan

2 panel image: a stock photo of a zoom call on the left and the person explaining on the right. Text over: I was let go after 69 days, as well as my coworker who’d been there for 9 months.

Woman humiliates her boss after being fired on Zoom in viral video: “My biggest frustration was working with you”

3 Panel image of teens in bright 2010 fashion

Gen Z is making fancams of their high school outfits on TikTok. 2017 is vintage now

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.

Lindsey Weedston

3 panel image showing the Holy Airball trend.

“Holy airball” is Gen Z’s new favorite term for painfully public Ls

3 panel image showing the Parke logo and a person explaining on the sides.

“So shady”: Viral fashion brand Parke accused of reselling factory-made clothes with markups

New spherical object with UFO beams coming out

Is it art or aliens? Buga, Colombia “UFO sphere” draws conspiracy theories

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

Susan LaMarca

3 panel image showing examples of the trend.

People are glamorizing their drunk moments and calling it “aesthetic.” Welcome back, indie-sleaze-era Tumblr

3 panel image showing the student and teacher mentioned as well as a letter the student wrote the teacher.

Woman searches for former 1st grade teacher from 2004—TikTok finds her in hours

A Reddit thread that reads: Did we get ripped off with homework? Discussion My wife is a middle school and highschool teacher and has worked for just about every type of school you can think of- private, public, title 1, extremely privileged, and schools in between. One thing that always surprised me is that homework, in large part, is now a thing of the past. Some schools actively discourage it.

Millennial asks: Did we get ripped off by the homework grind?

People over 35 are sharing the things they miss the most from their childhood

An ai-generated image of cars in a parking lot with a Reddit question overlaid that says, " Which car do you see on the road and instantly think, Yeah, this person's an a-hole?"

“Big loud stupid trucks”: People are sharing which cars on the road they think has a huge jerk driving inside

image collage of reddit caption and flowers and shoes abandoned on the road

11 stories of brides and grooms who left their partners on the day of the wedding: “It was worth every penny”

2 panel image of person explaining and a person graduating.

Mom’s theory about how baddies make the best kind of parents goes viral: “Confident moms raise confident kids”

Photo collage image a person looking disgusted and the word "ICK" overlaid.