lindseyweedston

Lindsey Weedston

Lindsey is a Seattle area writer interested in all things society, including internet culture, politics, and mental health. Outside of the Daily Dot, her work can be found in publications such as The Mary Sue, Truthout, and YES! Magazine.

Pope Francis Covering his eyes with X Response overlayed on top

‘She’s collecting world leaders’: Pope Francis is dead, Trisha Paytas is pregnant—coincidence? The internet says no

Once again, the timeline aligns too perfectly…

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Culture
woman looking shocked(l) Woman holding up popeyes new pickle menu(c0 Woman holds up take out bag from popeyes(r)

‘My stomach bubbling after I ate that’: People are loving Popeyes’ new pickle menu—but there’s one item they’d change

Are you brave enough to try lemony pickle juice?

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Culture
3 panel image of a person explaining.

Social worker exposes dangerous alt-right rabbit holes for young women, including ‘tradwife content,’ ‘skinnytok,’ and ‘soft living’

”Just a girl,’ ‘my silly arts degree,’ ‘girl math’ unfortunately falls under this.’

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Culture
3 panel image of people talking on camera and one person getting doused with water.

USC Speak Your Mind: The new viral challenge that’s part ice bucket, part emotional breakdown

Get ready to dread your mentions again.

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Culture
Left: Screenshot of RFK Jr.,; Right: Screenshot of Tarik El-Abour; Caption: Tweet from @Dandy_Roddick 'Autistic people will never play baseball, the sport where 90% of players have an insanely-complicated, completely unique pre-game routine that cannot be altered or interrupted in any way.'

From Tarik El-Abour to Rube Waddell: Baseball fans clap back at RFK Jr.’s autism remarks

Bobby’s never seen a bullpen and it shows.

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Culture
Screenshots from X users @lisalee6789 and @neil778027 of TikToks from Chinese creators with the captions 'has asked me about the cost of living here in China' and 'They Robbed You'.

‘They rob you blind and you thank them for it’: While Americans argue about tariffs, Chinese influencers are bragging about how good they have it on TikTok

Americans are waking up—and Chinese TikToks are the red pill.

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Culture
3 panel image: of people explaining.

Buy pork, get a second job: Gen Z is asking millennials for recession advice and survival tips on TikTok

‘I was drunk the entirety of 2008.’

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Culture
2 panel image of Addison Rae holding up an ipod. Text over is a tweet saying, 'it insists upon itself.'

Addison Rae plugged into an iPod nano—critics say the vibe is ‘manufactured’

Could it have something to do with her TikTok origins?

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Culture
Left: Meme of the Voros twins with the captions 'WE USE AI. Actual Imagination'; Right: Meme of Sonic the Hedgehog with the caption 'yeah, I use AI: Actual Imagination'

The ‘Actual Imagination’ meme is artists’ clapback to AI-generated slop

More fun than a middle manager action figure.

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Memes
2 image split. Tweet that reads: 'me getting back to my apartment after running errands' with screenshot of woman kissing ground on left. Katy Perry with tweet overlayed that reads: 'starting a conspiracy theory that the Katy Perry who came back from space isn't the one who went up' on right.

‘Shorter than a Selena Gomez social media break’: Internet roasts Blue Origin’s 11-minute flight—22 memes

‘Only Katy Perry could make going to space underwhelming.’

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Memes
Charli X

‘Loser behavior’: Charli XCX called out for Coachella sash that fans say disrespected Green Day

‘I’m starting to hate who Charli XCX is becoming.’

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Culture
3 panel image, showing people showing spoons.

‘Dear tism community’: SpoonTok is rating spoons and rejecting the unworthy

‘I present my spoon to the council.”

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Culture
Tweet that reads: 'Exactly what the devil is doing (underlined 100 emoji) on left. Woman holding phone with overlayed text that reads: 'Wait for it...' 'ChatGPT, if you were the devil, how would you destroy the young minds of the next generation?' on right

‘I’d keep them distracted’: Woman asks ChatGPT how it would ‘destroy young minds’ if it was the devil—its response leaves her stunned

Fiendish plots from the digital devil?

On by Lindsey Weedston
Culture
ai interpretation of the future of america

The Chinese trolled America with a viral AI sweatshop video. Now there’s a sequel, and it’s even more brutal

Do Americans yearn for the sweatshops?

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Culture
A boy's body lays in display to public, as he becomes a well known figure in religion for the new generation. They also created a merch line for him

Get ready for the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint—complete with custom merch

The Catholic Church isn’t exactly happy about it.

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