Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Happy Friday! Our top stories today are about: Why TikTok is obsessed with a beauty queen’s unique scream, a Chipotle customer claiming they got an erroneous email from the company saying they won free food for life, a woman detailing how a delivery driver wouldn’t leave her home, and a look at why Bank of America customers had negative account balances all of a sudden.
After that, our Senior Culture Editor Tiffany has her “This Week on the Internet” column and shares with you her pick for meme of the week.
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⚡ Today’s top stories
📱 SOCIAL MEDIA
TikTok is obsessed with this French beauty queen’s unique scream
This bizarre moment from the 2018 Miss Universe pageant is suddenly all over TikTok.
🌯 FAIL
Customer receives faulty email announcing she won free Chipotle for a year
A Chipotle customer received an erroneous emailinforming her that she had won free Chipotle for life, but was later told the message was incorrectly sent to her.
🍕 WTF
‘I would freak out’: Woman says Domino’s delivery driver left her ‘scared’ after refusing to leave her home
A woman went viral for detailing how a Domino’s delivery driver left her “scared” because he refused to leave her home.
💸 YIKES
Why Bank of America users woke up to negative balances in their accounts
Users took to Twitter to voice their frustrations over money vanishing from their accounts.
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The internet has not been kind to 2023’s movie posters
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🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
🌮 As prices continue to rise due to inflation, a viral video has captured a hilarious moment when a Taco Bell customer was shocked to see their drive-thru order appear to be over $866.
🛒 Yet another TikToker has taken to the platform to share their frustrations with Instacart after having issues with her order.
🍕 Sometimes, online orders don’t go according to plan. That’s what one DoorDash customer learned after placing a recent order for three pizzas from convenience store chain Casey’s.
🍎 An Applebee’s server went viral for returning the favor after calling out her co-worker who made a TikTok about her.
🍞 A customer determined that you don’t have to settle for what they call “hard brick bread” when ordering a sandwich at Publix, sharing a sandwich hack in a now-viral video.
🥤 In a clip that has garnered over 411,000 views, a TikToker demonstrates that the kids-sized milkshake at Denny’s is identical in size to the regular size by pouring the regular sized drink into the plastic kids cup.
📍 Parents use these top GPS trackers to help them keep a virtual eye on their kids, even when they’re far away. But should they?*
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📅 Meme of the Week
Pedro Pascal: the ultimate TV dad?
