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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

Culture

“A tremendous disservice”: The online knitting community is calling Hank Green out for his latest SciShow video

“Someone free her”: QTCinderella is being praised for defending her interest in Taylor Swift against her male cohosts

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

Left: Text reading "Me at the office potluck making sure no Uber driver of mine gets the pear of anguish" above a dish with peas and rice. Middle: Woman looking into the camera above cooking ingredients, text overlay reads "Cooking to avoid the pear of anguish." Right: Woman peeling a potato, text overlay reads "pov: improving my cooking skills bc I just found out what the pear of anguish is."

Internet cooks are begging to avoid the “pear of anguish”—how medieval torture became a FoodTok meme

Left: Old Austin, Texas city logo. Right: New Austin, Texas city logo.

“I’ve seen Captcha tests with more soul”: Austin’s $1.1 million logo rebrand isn’t sitting well with residents online

Left: Woman in red glasses looking into screen, caption overlay reads "The Covid Pause is REAL." Right: A group of people dancing in the street at nighttime, caption overlay reads, "30+ making TikToks, Covid pause is so real."

Millennials and Zoomers blame the “COVID pause” for feeling younger than they are

Left: Rock cairn, fingers stacking rocks with caption overlay reading "stacking rocks to piss off environmentalists on tiktok bc what are they gonna do??? knock it over??" Right: Woman kicking over rock stack, caption overlay reads, "Rock stacks hate to see me comin."

The rock stacking wars: hikers can’t agree if stacking rocks ruins ecosystems—or just annoys purists

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Charlie Puth’s “Attention” becomes the soundtrack for McDonald’s TikTok trend

Left: pregnant woman lying in hospital bed while young adult man sitting beside her touches her belly. Right: Text reading "once I'm home I've got nothing in the tank which leads to having very little patience and really only being present in body only."

“When is HER me time?”: Dad juggling 6-day workweek and young kids asks if he’s entitled to “me time”

Woman making irritated face, caption overlay reads, "pov You're trying to talk to people 2025"

“Is talking cringe now?”: Skit about “talking in 2025” goes viral—and the critiques are brutal

Fallout imagery with caption overlay reading "these look shabby and soulless."

“Fallout” fans suspect alleged leaked Target merch may use AI-generated art

Left: Tweet reading "wuthering heights with 35 yo catherine, the whitewashed version of heathcliff. original music by charli xcx. emily brontë did not die for this." Right: Still of actors Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the new "Wuthering Heights" movie about to kiss.

“The matcha Dubai chocolate Labubu of film”: New “Wuthering Heights” trailer slammed as too horny, whitewashed, and nothing like Brontë’s novel

Left: Text reading "This morning, I woke up to a Venmo request for $3.25 with the note “half the fries.” At first I thought it was a joke, but nope, he was serious." Right: Woman dipping French fries into red sauce in cafe.

“I thought it was a joke”: Man baffles date with $3 Venmo request for half the fries

Left: Tweet reading "the great lock in of sept-dec 2025 will be talked about for generations by my children and their children." Right: Bugs Bunny tuxedo meme next to text reading, "I wish all my brothers a very locked in Sep-Dec 2025."

The Great Lock In: How September-December officially became grind season

Comedian Druski in disguise as a white "patriot" in white makeup at a NASCAR rally, drinking Budweiser and holding an American flag cowboy hat over his chest. Tweet text overlay reads, "This is actually probably the highest level of performance art this generation will ever witness."

Druski’s uncanny NASCAR “patriot” parody is going viral. Here’s what’s going on

Rachel Kiley is a writer who sometimes writes things and sometimes is based in L.A., but is definitely always on Twitter @rachelkiley.

Rachel Kiley

Left: Tweet reading "Mind you, Luigi Mangione doesn’t even have a trial date, he’s facing the death penalty, and corporations are already exploiting his AI image." Right: Shein ad featuring a possibly Ai-generated image of a model resembling Luigi Mangione