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Kira Deshler was the assistant newsletter editor at the Daily Dot. Kira received a Master&#8217;s in Media Studies from UT Austin and has previously written for sites like Slash Film and Looper. She runs her own Substack newsletter, Paging Dr. Lesbian, and is a member of GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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Grace Rampaul is a social and multimedia intern at the Daily Dot. She is a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, with a major in Journalism and focus on Media and Entertainment Studies. Grace is based in Austin and covers trending stories, entertainment, cultural phenomenon, and all things social.

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‘I will never use their website again’: StubHub customer spends thousands on Taylor Swift concert tickets. Then she gets an error

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Ryan Schocket is a NJ/NYC-based writer. When he&#8217;s not writing, he&#8217;s busy obsessing over celebrities (mostly Taylor Swift and Mariah Carey!), beauty treatments, internet culture — or hanging with his English bulldog. His work has appeared in BuzzFeed and Esquire.

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Olivia Rodrigo fell through a hole on stage and accidentally ripped out her extensions on tour last night

Charlotte is a regular Daily Dot contributor with bylines in Insider, VICE, Glamour, The Independent, and more. She holds a Masters&#8217;s degree in Magazine Journalism from City, University of London.

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We wouldn’t touch this Gypsy-Rose Blanchard dance trend with a 10-foot pole

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Millennials are correcting Gen-Z’s TikTok dance to ‘Da Dip’

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Fans both disheartened and moved by Sophie’s posthumous album 

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‘I got the mayor indicted’: Sabrina Carpenter shouts out ‘Feathers’ video for helping take down Eric Adams

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Wait, you haven’t seen the ‘Maps dance’ inspired by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on TikTok yet?

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