Bumble stumble, a Creed cruise & goodbye pizza-mouse music 👀🍿🧃

Hi Wrecklings!

No shortage of shenanigans this week— including a new upcoming cult documentary:

• “Dancing for the Devil Steps Into the Story of the 7M ‘TikTok Cult’”- I was SO into this story, hype for this to come out.

• “Farewell, Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic Band”- I once applied to be the Chuck E Cheese mouse in college but was too tall for the costume.

• “Solar storms made GPS tractors miss their mark at the worst time for farmers”- Technology is so weird.

• “Woman found living in Michigan grocery store sign, complete with computer and Keurig, for months”- I want them to interview this woman.

• “Amid Crisis, Tesla Has Removed Almost Every Single US Job Listing”- Rivian also just did another round of layoffs.

• “Cold Stone Creamery sued over ‘pistachio’ ice-cream with no pistachios”- This story is… not nuts.

• “Eurovision fans in shock after seeing contestant ‘with p3nis out’ live on stage during performance”- I would expect nothing less from Windows95man.

• “Dublin to New York City Portal Temporarily Shut Down Due to Inappropriate Behavior”- Womp.

• “Google Cloud Accidentally Deletes $125 Billion Pension Fund’s Online Account”- Oopsie daisy!

• “Baby Reindeer: Fiona Harvey says she will sue Netflix and writer Richard Gadd”- This interview was bananas, especially as she starts tripping up on her story.

• “Apple apologizes for iPad ‘Crush’ ad that ‘missed the mark’"- I saw a brilliant suggestion someone made that they should have just reversed the ad footage.

• “Bumble’s billboard ads sneered at celibacy as an alternative to dating — and the company got stung”- These are some unreal misteps.

• “Miss Teen USA Resigns From Her Post, Following Miss USA”- The hidden message in her post is wild— as is this Good Morning America interview.

• “Billionaire's wife Katherine Asplundh shuts down her Instagram after attempts to bully stranger into handing over her handle went viral - as users join forces to punish her”- My favorite is when the internet humbles garbage people.

• “Lauren Southern: how my tradlife turned toxic- The online ideology doesn't work in the real world”- I mean, it didn’t even sound like a good idea online…?

• “American Airlines Gives Poverty Verification Letters To Newly-Hired Flight Attendants”- This is so dystopian.

• “TikTok sued the U.S. government to block a ban. Here’s what happens now”- I’m sure this will turn out to be nothing besides a waste of government $$.

• “Russian Women Speaking Mandarin, Looking For Chinese Husbands Go Viral - With A Catch”- Yikes, this can’t be good.

• “With Arms Wide Open- How did Creed, the most hated band of the 1990s, become so beloved—and even cool? I sailed the seas with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out.”- WELCOME TO THIS PLACE.

• “‘Killed With Kindness’ World’s fattest monkey dubbed ‘Godzilla’ dies after eating himself to death despite trip to fat camp”- Oh buddy, nooo.

• “Alarming rise of electronic vaping use in U.S. adolescents”- Ahh, the cycle is complete. 🤦🏼‍♀️

• “Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business”- Today is the first day I’ve ever heard of this product…

• 🔏“Inside Andy Cohen’s Reality”- I’d be more surprised if this was a healthy corporate environment.

• 🔏“The T is paying consultants up to $610 per hour — to figure out how to save money”- The call is coming from inside the house.

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More Serious Stories

We realize some of these can be triggering for some readers, so feel free to skip! Also, sometimes we use weird letter subs so we’re not flagged as gross spam email.

• “‘Who Is That Color?’: A Makeup Brand Is Said to Miss the Mark by Several Shades”

• “On Instagram, a Jewelry Ad Draws Solicitations for S3x With a 5-Year-Old”

• “Adult webcam platform paid $2.6m into controversial influencer Tristan Tate’s bank account, leaked documents show”

• “Man linked to viral dress pleads guilty to endangering wife’s life”

• “YouTuber runs over pedestrian while streaming under the influence”

• “‘Love Is Blind’ cast member reaches $1.4 million settlement with Netflix in class action over unpaid wages”

• “NY concertgoer Bird Piché partially paralyzed after Trophy Eyes singer’s stage dive into crowd”

• “'All That' star Lori Beth Denberg says Nickelodeon's Dan Schneider showed her porn, initiated phone sex, and lashed out on set”

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