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

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3 Panel: Left: Taco Bell Baja Blast Pie being cut into pieces. Middle: Taco Bell employee taking a bit of the Taco Bell Baja Blast Pie. Right: Taco Bell employee cutting the new Taco Bell Baja Blast Pie into pieces.

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“Fresh outta Chernobyl”: Taco Bell’s Baja Blast Pie is real and people are torn between “surprisingly good” and “radioactive dessert”

Rebekah is a freelance reporter for the Daily Dot.

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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.

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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.

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Left: Blonde woman with long hair putting up blue and white wallpaper, text overlay reads, "Feeling so excited to put up cute wallpaper, until..." Right: Closeup of the wallpaper with digital errors, text overlay reads, "Realizing it's AI slop."

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