Paywalled horsepower, divorce registries & a homework-doing influencer 👀🍿🧃
Hi Wrecklings!
Battling a head cold this week but psyched to have (sort of) caught up on my to-do list post-move.
“TikTok Promotes Stickers for Secretly Recording Meta Ray-Ban Video”
“Influencer Breaks Down in Tears After Trusting ChatGPT for Travel Advice, and Then Missing Flight”
“Forget Netflix, Volkswagen locks horsepower behind paid subscription”
“A 3-year-old breaks a $1,600 table. N.J. mom says café demanded her credit card.”
“Inside the Luigi Mangione musical that’s playing to sellout crowds”
“Rabbits With Hornlike Growths Are Hopping Around Colorado. Are They OK?”
“Hundreds may have been exposed to rabies at bat-infested cabins in Grand Teton National Park”
“A conversation with the SF chef taken down by a TikTok influencer”
“Rapper Sean Kingston sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for wire fraud”
“Deported from US, these social media influencers are now monetizing their misfortune”
“U.S. teen influencer still stranded in Antarctic weeks after landing plane without permission”
“U.S. Crypto Influencer Sentenced for $1M Illegal Cloud Mining Scheme”
“Mom Influencer Defends Why She's Been Doing Her Kids' Homework for Years”
“Influencer ‘XenaThe Witch’ arrested after shooting stranger with a paintball gun for live stream prank”
“'Will You Fit?' The Reality Of Being A Plus-Size Disney Influencer On A Dickish Internet.”
“Influencer Defends Setting Up a Divorce Registry After Splitting From Longtime Partner”
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.
“Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info”
“Newborn Dies After Mom’s ‘Planned Freebirth’ in Birthing Pool She Rented from Influencer”
“Influencer Stacey Tourout Initially Survived Fatal Off-Roading Accident With Fiance Matthew Yeomans”
“A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her.”
“I used to be a picture-perfect wellness influencer — behind closed doors my eating disorder and Instagram addiction tore me apart”
“The twisted economics of ‘RushTok’: Some sorority pledge influencers can pay their tuition, but they’re fleeing online hate and backlash”
“Louisiana attorney general sues Roblox, calling the platform 'the perfect place for pedophiles'“
“7-Month-Old Boy 'Kidnapped' After Mom Was Allegedly Attacked While Changing Him in Vehicle”
“Louisiana Man Allegedly Hijacked a Construction Crane on a Highway, Causing Multiple Car Crashes”
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