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Tricia Crimmins is a former Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election.

Tricia Crimmins

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‘Don’t come for me’: TikToker leaves $0 tip for Texas Roadhouse waiter because he ghosted her, sparking debate

Gisselle Hernandez is a freelance journalist based in Belize, where she writes travel and internet culture pieces. She enjoys watching anime, playing video games, and covering all things TikTok.

Gisselle Hernandez

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‘Zaxby’s ain’t the place to go when you on a time constraint’: ‘Karen’ feuds with other customers at Zaxby’s over long drive-thru line (updated)

man commentating on a specific doordash instruction (l) (r) doordash logo (m)

‘Drive past the house and send me a picture of the house and whatever cars are there’: Customer gets DoorDash driver to snoop by ordering food to someone else’s house (updated)

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‘You can go ahead and put some Bailey’s in her coffee’: Beverage cart girl says man tried to spike his date’s drink while golfing

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‘Girl, bye. Tell them to catch me down the road’: ‘Karen’ allegedly calls cops on Black Amazon worker

Clara is a full-time digital nomad writing about culture, food, and music. Her work has been featured in publications such as Refinery29, the Austin Chronicle, USA Today, and NiceKicks. She aims to be quicker on her feet than Borat&#8217;s lawyers.

Clara Wang

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TikToker says her family was kicked out of homeless shelter over positive COVID test, sparking debate

woman pretending to drive (l) woman looking over her shoulder, horrified (r) both with caption "when you decide to stay in on a friday, drive for uber and your man gets in the back seat with another girl"

‘This would be my villain origin story’: Uber driver says she got a ride request from her ‘man’ and another woman

young woman in sweater (l) domino's pizza "survivor" driver edition - delivery drivers have a chance to win $10,000

‘Pay your employees living wages’: TikToker calls out Domino’s for ‘Survivor’ challenge encouraging drivers to work 60 days straight

Alexandra Samuels is a national political reporter and contributor to the Daily Dot, where she started as an intern covering politics in the summer of 2016. She enjoys all things Marvel, keeping up with the latest TikTok trends, long walks with her pup, and reading murder-mystery novels.

Alexandra Samuels

TikToker says bad car from Carvana led to permanent kidney damage

young woman (l) voicemail transcript "Yes Miss Jones I recommend if oyu apply for a job and you expect somebody to call you that you have a more appropriate a response on your route voicemail so thank you for applying and no need to give us" and caption "the time I didn't get hired because of my voicemail" (r)

‘You dodged a bullet. That guy has 0 personality’: TikToker says she didn’t get job because of her voicemail greeting, sparking debate

‘You took 8+ minutes to reply your fault’: Snoop Dogg puts Uber Eats driver on blast, sparking debate

Laiken Neumann is a former Trending news editor based in Austin, Texas.

Laiken Neumann

young woman in car eating snack with caption "minding my business eating snacks" (l) man near car with caption "this guy came out of nowhere this is where the viewer said something might have been put in the car" (c) police surrounding car with caption "start of lights in my face" (r)

‘Minding her business, about to take down a whole police force’: People think TikToker accidentally captured cops ‘planting evidence’ in car in viral video

Brooke Sjoberg is a freelance writer who graduated with her Bachelors in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020.

Brooke Sjoberg

young woman on couch with phone and laptop, captioned "When you lose health insurance and can't buy your meds because they are $100 a MONTH for self pay." and "$18,023.40"

‘Our healthcare system is a crime against humanity’: TikToker finds out her medicine is going to cost 18K for a month’s supply in viral video, sparking outrage (updated)

Kathleen is a Honolulu-based freelance writer, editor and communications strategist who has been published by the New York Times, Vice, Huffington Post, Hana Hou!, and more. She&#8217;s worked in the communication departments at the Honolulu Museum of Art, ACLU of Hawaii and Hawaii Community Foundation. When she&#8217;s not writing, she can be found in the ocean, walking her rescue poi dog or oil painting.

Kathleen Wong

Man berates fast-food manager in drive-thru.

‘You’re an idiot, I hope you get fired’: Man berates drive-thru manager over discounts in viral TikTok

Rebekah is a freelance reporter for the Daily Dot.

Rebekah Harding

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‘Only people that benefit from that store are the workers’: Goodwill worker blasted for sorting out Off-White sneakers in viral TikTok, sparking debate

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