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Braden Bjella is a culture writer. His work can be found in Mixmag, Electronic Beats, Schon! magazine, and more.

Braden Bjella

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‘You’re already charging me to be at your property?’: Customer shows $60 ‘property fee’ for their rental on Expedia

Moises Mendez II is a recent graduate from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is a freelance journalist based in New York City writing about everything from music to LGBTQ issues.

Moises Mendez II

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‘About to tell them they have to share 1 bed for all 4 of them’: Hotel worker shows why guests shouldn’t wait until ‘last minute to check in’

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‘What it’s like traveling as a woman’: TikToker discovers the inside of her hotel room can be seen through peephole

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

Brooke Sjoberg

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‘Don’t order if ur not going to pay for it’: TikToker says she put random room number on check at hotel bar to get out of paying, sparking debate

Stacy Fernández is a freelance writer, project manager and communications specialist. She’s worked at The Texas Tribune, The Dallas Morning News and run social for The Education Trust New York. Her favorite hobby is finding hidden gems at the thrift store, she loves a good audio book and is a chocolate enthusiast.

Stacy Fernandez

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‘As they should’: TikToker says guests were left to run front desk after hotel workers walked out

TikTok Hotel Breakfast

‘That waffle batter gets reused until it starts to smell like beer’: TikToker who says she used to work in hotels warns not to eat the breakfast

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

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‘These very nice people just walked into my f*cking room’: Hotel double books bride-to-be’s room in viral TikTok

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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‘There’s a room under our room’: TikToker finds apparent secret tunnel under one-story hotel in viral video

Cecilia Lenzen is a freelance writer for the Daily Dot.

Cecilia Lenzen

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‘I’m on his side’: TikToker argues with hotel manager who claimed she was disrespecting staff, dividing viewers

A woman in a converted prison (L) and two women drinking in a prison cell (R).

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‘This is extremely gross’: Instagrammers staying at former prison converted into luxury hotel get put on blast

Samira Sadeque is a New York-based journalist reporting on immigration, sexual violence, and mental health, and will sometimes write about memes and dinosaurs too. Her work also appears in Reuters, NPR, and NBC among other publications. She graduated from Columbia Journalism School, and her work has been nominated for SAJA awards. Follow: @Samideque

Samira Sadeque

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Police officers handcuff man for standing near an unrelated female suspect in viral TikTok

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Hilton worker says he was fired for viral TikTok videos about the hotel (updated)

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Influencer accuses Lisa Frank of stealing apartment design, says that’s why she’s getting evicted (updated)

Dylan Love is an editorial consultant and journalist whose reporting interests include emergent technology, digital media, and Russian language and culture. He is a former staff writer for the Daily Dot, and his work has been published by Business Insider, International Business Times, Men&#8217;s Journal, and the Next Web.

Dylan Love

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We interviewed the humans running the Japanese robot hotel

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