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Hello fellow web crawlers! Kira here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Today’s top stories are about: hotel guests who found blood spatter in their room, questions about Trump’s wealth following his company’s Wall Street debut, explaining a shady advertising technique called “trickflation,” and a look at Jojo Siwa’s new glam rock era.
After that, check out Mikael’s ‘One Dumb Conspiracy’ column.
Until next time,
— K.D.
⚡ Today’s top stories
🩸 WTF
‘That’s a crime scene’: Guests say they found blood spatter in their hotel room
There’s something about hotels, especially Vegas hotels, that gives off the feeling that something gnarly can happen at any moment, and one woman confronted this assumption head-on.
💰 TECH
Just how rich did Trump get after his media company’s big Wall Street debut?
The stock price shot up after the company went public.
🛍️ VIRAL
‘We just can’t buy anything anymore’: Customer says ‘trickflation’ is the new way people are being ripped off. What is it?
Social media users are drawing attention to what they say is a whole new way for manufacturers to screw customers over while raking in even higher profits.
👩🎤 POP CULTURE
‘Looks like a WWE champion’: What’s going on with Jojo Siwa’s new look and rebrand?
“I want to do what [Miley] did with Bangerz. I want to have that moment,” Siwa said of her new era.
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🔍 One Dumb Conspiracy
By Mikael Thalen
Staff Reporter
No, Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg are not starting an anti-woke film studio
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🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
☕ This Starbucks barista claims corporate is withholding numerous benefits from workers.
🚘 Car dealership workers are revealing the best cars that no one ever buys.
🏡 A mom on TikTok posted a viral video after a seller on Facebook Marketplace showed up to her house without her giving him her address beforehand.
🏋️ A Planet Fitness customer went viral after sharing a story-time about how she had to file a police report after her barbell pad got stolen.
🧀 People have a lot of reactions to this viral video where a Chipotle customer says she was forced to shred her own cheese for her Al Pastor chicken quesadilla.
🏦 A woman went into Wells Fargo to open a new account, but she ended up helping her bank teller with something unexpected: His dating life.
🌮 Working somewhere while short-staffed can be stressful, and a Taco Bell employee recently vented her stress about running the store by herself to a DoorDash driver in the drive-thru.
🌐 From the Daily Dot archive: Is there a First Amendment right to assemble in the metaverse?
📝 Question of the Day
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DO YOU AGREE WITH THE CONTROVERSIAL CLAIM THAT SNL HAS NEVER HIRED A HOT WOMAN?
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👋 Before you go
In a viral video, TikToker Archelle (@oatsfinessinn) found spiders in her crawfish. In the 43-second clip, she slowly pulled large brown spiders out of her pot of crawfish.
In the background of the video, her child asked, “Where did those spiders come from.” By the end of the video, she found around seven brown spiders in her food.
In the video’s caption, she questioned, “Over here tryna find out if these are spiders in my crawfish?!?!?” The video has 9.3 million views and 27,000 comments and sparked much discourse.
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