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3 panel: Left: Geoguessr star Rainbolt with a DM from a girl asking for his help. Middle: Rainbolt with photograph of bowling ball in the desert.

“Doing god’s work”: Geoguessr star Rainbolt helps family track down 40-year-old memorial to honor dying grandmother’s wish

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Left: Blonde woman doing her makeup routine, caption overlay reads "chat I'm getting the August scaries I hate this feeling every year." Right: Tweet reading "August is like Sunday and also grief. It’s kind of just a vibe. I wouldn’t expect most people to get it."

Students and teachers agree: The “August scaries” are painfully real

MrBeast in an interview. Caption overlay from @MrBeast X account reads, "According to this list a guy with 1 million followers is more influential than me. What did I do to piss off The Rolling Stones."

MrBeast mocked for Rolling Stone mix-up while complaining about being ranked too low on a list of influential creators

Left: Husband grasping onto wife inside of a gondola, caption overlay reads "POV: you plan a beautiful honeymoon in Europe just to find out your husband has a crippling fear of heights." Right: Tweet reading "Now, if he filmed her having a panic attack due to a phobia, he’d be called a monster. This was messed up. Comfort that man. He’s terrified!"

“Zero emotional support”: Bride laughs as husband panics on gondola ride, commenters clash over whether it’s cruel

Left: 2 positive pregnancy tests, caption overlay reads, "Mommy who was the first person to know you were pregnant?" Right: Tweet reading "We need to go back to landlines and dial-up internet until we sort this out i’m not kidding"

“Not your parents? Not the father?”: Woman says ChatGPT was the first to know she’s pregnant

Left: Tweet reading "It's not lost on me that I have received a huge amount of hate from so-called "leftist" accounts since changing my pfp to include a hijab-inspired secular accessorization." Right: 'The Devil Wears Prada' meme showing Anne Hathaway saying "The hijab inspired secular accessorization? Yeah, I am."

Here’s why the internet can’t stop joking about “hijab-inspired secular accessorization”

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Should you sit in the front or back of an Uber? Riders can’t agree on what’s safer

Snoop Dogg’s “scared to go to the movies” comments about gay Pixar scene called “weird” and “homophobic”

Left: Protestor in front of Chicago's The Bean statue holding a sign reading "Cloud gate is locked." Caption overlay reads "The man in the bean must stay." Right: Protestors holding signs in front of Chicago's The Bean statue. Caption overlay reads "Chicago, there's a man trapped inside the bean?"

Protestors claim there’s a man trapped inside Chicago’s Bean sculpture. Why?

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“Summer 2016 was fun”: Gen Z’s nostalgia for 2016 brings a flood of memories from “the last good year and the first bad year”

Left: Woman looking into camera, caption overlay reads, "I think more young men are lying about who they voted for in dating." Right: Assorted dating apps, including Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, HUD, Hickey, Wink, Coffee Meets Bagel (CMB), OkCupid, and Plenty of Fish (POF), are seen on an iPhone.

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“Is that a foot long?”: Restaurant staffers are sharing the dumbest things customer have said to them

Left: Reddit post from r/teachers subreddit. Caption reads, "Here are the Ten Commandments, in language defined by 89(R) SB10, legible to a person with average vision, in the Wingdings font" above endless lines of wingding font. Right: Children raising hand in class for a question to teacher.