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Lauren Castro


Lauren Castro is a reporter based in Austin, Texas.

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    How fears of the ‘antifa apocalypse’ set the stage for QAnon

    Tech

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    The many lives of the Dancing Baby, cyberspace’s first cringe meme

    Internet Culture

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Domino's logo with lava cake on table with box

‘In this economy?’: TikTok shows Domino’s increased lava cake portions from 2 to 3, sparking debate

'All restaurants should provide them.'

On May 16, 2022 by Lauren Castro

Internet Culture
white topless man showing a house (l) home depot logo (c) black topless man smiling (r)

‘It’s sad that millennials and Gen Z are looking to live in sheds’: TikToker buys tiny house from Home Depot, sparking debate

'Inflation is on the rise.'

On May 16, 2022 by Lauren Castro

IRL
Airplane seat screen "Seat Chat Invitation 9E has sent you a chat invitation decline accept" caption "how to flirt on an airplane" (l) man and woman sitting on plane talking coffee in hands (r)

‘It was so awkward’: Man tries flirts with passenger on Aeromexico flight through plane’s seat screen

'People will make anything a dating app these days.'

On May 13, 2022 by Lauren Castro

Internet Culture IRL
long-haired woman looking at computer screen (l) airport (c) woman looking at customer (r)

‘I would have lost my job that day’: Woman tells airport worker to ‘go back to Mexico’

'You still wanna work at the airport?'

On May 11, 2022 by Lauren Castro

IRL
man joking and smiling

‘The things she put me threw haunt me still’: TikToker says his 23-year-old teacher sexually assaulted him when he was 16

He says she snuck into his bedroom window every night for months.

On May 2, 2022 by Lauren Castro

IRL
woman addresses high school bully

‘Mean girls will always be mean girls’: TikToker claims her former high school bully has a Facebook group dedicated to reporting her account

Twelve years after high school, she says her bully is still trying to hurt her.

On May 2, 2022 by Lauren Castro

IRL
crawfish in bag (l) HEB logo (m) crawfish swimming in tank (r)

‘A second chance at life’: Woman finds discarded crawfish on the floor at HEB. Worker says she can keep it. She takes it home and raises it

'He don’t know how lucky he really is.'

On Apr 25, 2022 by Lauren Castro

Internet Culture
woman explaining concept using a whiteboard

‘When there is an issue, they don’t come to the relationship’: Therapist shows how to predict if your partner will cheat in viral TikTok

'Little bit of a morbid subject.'

On Apr 22, 2022 by Lauren Castro

Internet Culture
person talking to camera with landlord text (l) airbnb phone (m) person showing phone texts (r)

‘Consider yourself lucky!’: Tenant says he lists rented house on Airbnb in viral TikTok, sparking debate

'The bank loves that I’m much less risk than a normal renter.'

On Apr 18, 2022 by Lauren Castro

IRL
robber stealing expensive tech (l) Woman on beach caption "I went to Puerto Rico for my bday and my bf broke up with me and broke into my house and stole 13k and my brand new MacBook while I was gone" (r)

‘Girl…’: TikToker says ex-boyfriend broke into her home and stole $13K while she was on vacation

She said she's pressing charges.

On Apr 4, 2022 by Lauren Castro

IRL
DoorDash worker on bike delivering food (l) TikTok video of doordash conversations with caption "POV: you found a way to get free food>>>" (r)

‘You scam bare minimum wage workers to get some free food’: Customer brags that they scam DoorDash to get ‘free food’ in viral TikTok, sparking debate

'Y'all do anything but work.'

On Apr 4, 2022 by Lauren Castro

Internet Culture IRL
upside down ok hand in front of starbucks workplace (l) (r) starbucks coffee pitcher (m)

‘When you have to make the mocha and the chai while being dead inside’: Starbucks worker has to run entire coffee shop alone in viral TikTok

'I get paid for one job.'

On Mar 28, 2022 by Lauren Castro

IRL
smartphone text screen (l) feminine person looking into camera (r)

‘They let the intrusive thoughts win’: Hiring manager calls TikToker a ‘piece of crap’ over text

'Gen Z HR be like.'

On Mar 28, 2022 by Lauren Castro

IRL
smartphone playing text in car (l) (r) coffee beans (m)

‘Don’t get married… or move your coffee machine’: Man plays angry message from wife over CarPlay in viral TikTok, sparking debate

'I just went to move it back to where it f*cking goes.'

On Mar 21, 2022 by Lauren Castro

Internet Culture IRL
starbucks worker pumping syrup into cup (l) starbucks logo (m) worker holding up finished drink (r)

‘No. Immediately no’: Starbucks customer asks barista for 40 pumps of classic syrup in viral TikTok

'Not 14. Four-zero.'

On Mar 14, 2022 by Lauren Castro

Internet Culture IRL

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