Hello fellow web crawlers! Kira here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Today’s top stories are about: A woman on TikTok who got roasted after sharing her inability to teach her homeschooled child, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s statement that Christian women are a little too promiscuous these days, the continuing controversy about the death of Nex Benedict, and how video creators are contending with the loss of music on TikTok.
After that, check out Kyle’s ‘Meme History’ column and video.
See you next week,
— K.D.
⚡ Today’s top stories
📓 VIRAL
‘Don’t homeschool if yall on the same grade level’: Parent questions her child’s kindergarten homeschool lesson. It backfires
“As a kindergarten teacher this hurt,” one commenter wrote.
👗 WTF
Marjorie Taylor Greene—accused of affair with tantric love guru—says Christian conservative women aren’t chaste enough for her taste
‘Didn’t you cheat on your husband?’ one X user responded.
🚓 POLITICS
Online speculation swirls as family of Nex Benedict’s family pledges independent investigation in wake of police statement
Police are being accused of a cover-up, as those on the right blame Benedict for starting the fight.
🎵 POP CULTURE
As Taylor Swift and Drake ditch TikTok, fans get revenge with this clever trick
Since Universal Music Group (UMG) took its music off TikTok, users have started getting creative.
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🤓 Meme History
By Kyle Calise
Video Producer
Meme History: Shrek is Love, Shrek is Life
Meme History is a weekly column that dives deep into internet lore to uncover the history of famous memes. It runs on Saturdays in the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter. If you want to get this column a day before we publish it, subscribe to web_crawlr, where you’ll get the daily scoop of internet culture delivered straight to your inbox.
🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
🩸 Right-wingers are convinced the Red Cross’ blood supply has been tainted by the COVID vaccine.
🧴 A Walmart shopper discovered 2-for-1 Herbal Essences shampoo is not actually a good deal.
🚙 A woman bought a used car and then realized it was stolen, leading her to uncover CarMax fraud.
💰 A woman on TikTok revealed that she doesn’t have a 9-5 job and instead resells perfume on eBay for a hefty profit.
💒 The internet’s cracking up about the fact that RFK JR once congratulated a gay comedian on being “ungayed” when the comedian joked that he had married a woman.
🚗 A Mercedes salesperson had a life-changing experience with a 19-year-old and his mom.
👮 From the Daily Dot archive: A background check company is secretly paying cops on TikTok to push its services.
👋 Before you go
Servers love taking to social media to regularly call out the annoying habits of their most difficult customers. These harrowing tales vary but the message is consistent: Please don’t be this person.
Olive Garden server Liz Bezler (@lizbezler) made a skit about her biggest pet peeve, which is customers who hurriedly come in to order lunch at midday during a 30-minute break from the office.
“Yeah, we’re on our lunch break, so we have 30 minutes to eat. So, cut straight to the chase,” the customer says. The customer then asks Bezler to bring another round and keep giving them unlimited refills in rapid succession – in the rudest way possible.
“I worked there for 7 years. This is giving me ptsd,” one user wrote in the comments section.
