Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Kira here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Today’s top stories are about: a woman who was blinded by a Nerf gun, a TikToker who shared an EMT’s horrifying Hinge photo, George Santos’ political job prospects, and a renter in danger of getting evicted because of her cat.
After that, dig into Mikael’s “One Dumb Conspiracy” column.
— K.D.
⚡ Today’s top stories
🔫 VIRAL
‘Everything was black’: Woman shares PSA after accident with popular Nerf toy left her ‘fully blinded’
“If you get gifted a Nerf Gun, do not shoot anyone in the face. Yesterday my sister shot me in the eye and blinded me instantly,” a TikToker shared.
🚑 YIKES
‘The splayed out toes’: Woman says EMT took Hinge photo with a ‘body’ on a stretcher
“If I called an ambulance and my EMT took his Hinge photo with my body and feet in the background, I would fucking riot,” she shared on TikTok.
🗳️ POLITICS
George Santos lobbies for top immigration role in potential new Trump administration
It wouldn’t pay as well as Cameo.
🐈 WTF
‘I don’t know what else to do’: Apartment dweller’s cat may get her evicted in renter horror story. Here’s why
A woman went viral on TikTok after seeking advice about how to deal with noise complaints that have pushed her to the brink of eviction.
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🔍 One Dumb Conspiracy
By Mikael Thalen
Staff Reporter
Conspiracy theorists think Bill Clinton visited the hospital to distract from Epstein docs
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🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
🚢 One TikToker set sail on the virtual seas of social media, capturing the imaginations of 322,900 viewers with her video about the food aboard a viral nine-month cruise.
📦 This worker went viral for refusing to ship her laptop back to a companyvia UPS after they laid her off, exclaiming “I am not paying for my own layoff.”
🍣 In a viral video, one TikToker says she was excited to visit a revolving sushi bar—only to be met with disappointment.
💰 An Olive Garden server’s table dined-and-dashed after racking up a $100 bill, and she feared she was going to have to pay for it out of pocket.
😁 If you’re never quite sure what to say when a strange man approaches you and suddenly suggests that you smile, there’s plenty of inspiration to be drawn from a recent video posted by a TikToker who just was not having that kind of foolishness over the holidays.
💄 A Dollar Tree customer revealed what to be on the lookout for when searching for name-brand beauty products at a steeply discounted price.
💵 A shopper went viral when she shared how she got Walgreens to honor a sale price at the cash register.
👶 From the Daily Dot archive: The many lives of the Dancing Baby, cyberspace’s first cringe meme.
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👋 Before you go
In a trending video amassing over 197,600 views, TikTok user Drew (@drews.worldd) shares a concise guide on identifying undercover cop cars. He asserts, “I’m about to show you guys a couple of different ways that you can spot undercover cop cars.”
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