Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Our top stories today are about: How Trump slurring his words and technical difficulties made his interview with Elon Musk an abject failure, a homeowner sharing a hack to keep unwanted pests from crawling up your drain, how spammy Cybertruck AI copypasta is gaming the TikTok algorithm, and how a DoorDash customer is vowing never to not tip again after it backfired in a big way.
After that, our Senior Politics and Technology Editor David has a “Deplatformed” column for you.
A quick programming note: I’m taking a few days off, so Kira will be guiding you through all of the essential internet culture news for a few days starting tomorrow.
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⚡ Today in Internet Culture
🎤 VIRAL POLITICS
Trump’s slurring lisp completely overshadowed his big X interview with Musk
Technical issues and claims that former President Donald Trump slurred his words and suffered from a lisp overshadowed his big interview with Elon Musk on X Spaces.
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‘Don’t allow passage’: Homeowner shares shower balloon trick that she learned from pest control
Bugs are one of people’s annoying uninvited house guests that are tricky to get rid of. Some of them crawl up drains to make your house their own. A woman revealed how to prevent these unwanted pests from crawling up your shower drain pipe using a balloon.
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🐜 HACKS
‘Don’t allow passage’: Homeowner shares shower balloon trick that she learned from pest control
Bugs are one of people’s annoying uninvited house guests that are tricky to get rid of. Some of them crawl up drains to make your house their own. A woman revealed how to prevent these unwanted pests from crawling up your shower drain pipe using a balloon.
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🚘 COPYPASTA
Spammy Tesla Cybertruck AI copypasta is gaming the TikTok algorithm
The “Tesla Cybertruck Is an All-Electric Battery-Powered Light-Duty Truck Unveiled by Tesla, Inc.” is a copypasta spam meme circulating on social media.
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😮 WHOOPS
‘Never NOT tipping again’: DoorDash customer says not tipping backfired in a big way
A DoorDash customer is promising to never again not tip her driver after doing so backfired in a big way.
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By David Covucci
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🕸️ Crawling the Web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
🌳 Tiger Woods shaking hands with a tree is one of golf’s funniest memes.
🍕 This former Little Caesars worker shared the trick to getting “fresh” pizza every time.
🍹 A woman provided a hack for what she called a “delicious homemade sugar-free margarita” using Mountain Dew Baja Blast Zero as a base.
💪 What is the “septum arms” trend taking over TikTok?
🥫 If you’ve ever had a sore throat after eating canned goods, this one video may be able to tell you why.
🍔 A Wendy’s customer posted a viral video showing the order that she says helped her lose weight while eating in a calorie deficit.
⚰️ From the Daily Dot archive: Here are the real-life stakes of faking your death online.
🤳 Today’s Viral Video
“How long have you been in America for?”
“Too long.”
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