Sacrificial Pop Tart, mass food poisoning & pilot speedruns 👀🍿🧃

Happy 2024 Wrecklings!

May you have gone into the New Year with the glory of the Pop Tart mascot (minus the being toasted-and-eaten part at the end).

• “Cheez-Its Has Responded To The Pop-Tarts Bowl Fiasco With Their Own Mascot And Message”- Let’s normalize not eating mascots.

• “Online retailer Zulily is shutting down”- And based on the comments on their last Instagram post, not particularly elegantly. This article also mentions:

  • “Online marketplace Jane.com collapsed. Now, sellers are waiting for over $10 million.”- Shout out to Gabbie for flagging these two, MVP BFF.

• “16-year-old flying solo on Frontier Airlines ends up in Puerto Rico instead of Ohio”- Perfect.

• “They Sold Everything to Go on a 3-Year Cruise. How It All Unraveled.”- “Like a high-seas version of the Fyre Festival”… yikes.

• ''Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick to step down at the end of the year''- Related-ish, it’s still so weird to me that Candy Crush is owned by Activision.

• ''18-Year Old GTA 6 Hacker Sentenced To Life In Hospital Prison''- Using only an Amazon Firestick? Impressive.

• ''Wayfair CEO: Employees need to work longer hours''- Have fun hiring new employees after this one.

• ''‘Worse than giving birth’: 700 fall sick after Airbus staff Christmas dinner''- Yikes, guess that too-good-to-be-true price really was.

• “Meet the Kleptobrats, the World’s Worst Nepo Babies”- Interesting to see which entertainers’ souls are for sale.

• ''Russian influencer Ivleeva fined for hosting 'almost naked' party''-That’s a lot of disrupted careers.

• ''An Aspen resort is fed up with a brand for using its grounds for a photo shoot and is now taking it to court''- A marketing strategy that’s particularly riski 🥁💥

• ''Kevin Hart is suing the same YouTuber as Cardi B, alleging she wanted a six-figure 'ransom' to not release an interview with his former assistant''- Seems like this isn’t proving to be a good business strategy.

• ''The Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I. Use of Copyrighted Work''- I feel for the

• ''Hershey is sued over lack of artistic detail on Reese's candies''- I’m constantly in awe of the creativity of these lawsuits.

• ''Why Did Vladimir Putin Want to Sue Warner Bros. After Watching Harry Potter?''- How did I not know anything about this until now??

• “How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse”- Huh.

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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.

• “Embezzlement of Oregon weekly newspaper’s funds forces it to lay off entire staff and halt print”

• ''A 17th Birthday Party, a Stocked Bar, Beer Pong, and a “Parental Rights” Mom Facing Assault Charges''

• “Australia’s Privacy Watchdog Has Launched an Inquiry Into TikTok’s Data Collection”

• ''Influencer Documented Husband’s Threats. Then He Murdered Her in Front of Daughter Before Killing Himself''

• ''P0rnhub’s parent company admits it profited from sex trafficking''

• ''Etsy stock falls after company lays off 11% of its staff, citing ‘very challenging’ environment''

• ''Five DEI officers have resigned from this university within span of a year''

• ''Minn. woman sues dentist after 4 root canals, 8 dental crowns and 20 fillings in a single visit''

• ''‘Heartless’ China influencer says Gansu deadly quake was 800km away and ‘nothing to do with her’ faces ongoing criticism despite apology''

• ''Woman horrified to wake up with new bum and boobs after surgery in Mexico''

• ''Michelin-starred chef leaves job after alleged hazing in kitchen''

• “Facebook finally suspends hate influencer Chaya Raichik’s LibsofTikTok account”

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