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Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to todayā€™s edition of web_crawlr

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Our top stories today are about: A woman finding a green surprise in her kids meal at Burger King, people online noticing how certain phrases about Trump couldnā€™t be found on social media, a woman claiming a Ring camera in her house began speaking to her daughter, and people online debating the decline of dinner parties

After that, weā€™ve got another edition of Meme History for you. 

P.S. ā€” Did you take our weekly news quiz yesterday? If you didnā€™t, thereā€™s still time! Just open yesterdayā€™s newsletter to answer the question. If you guess correctly, you might win a ā€œScrolling In The Deepā€ shirt! 

See you next week! 

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ā€” A.W. 


āš” Today in Internet Culture

šŸ— WTF
Woman orders Burger King Chicken Fries for her kid. Then she sees what worker put in the bag

In a viral video, the customer pans the camera over to a plastic plate with Chicken Fries and several green clusters, some of which were broken apartā€”suggesting they are marijuana.

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šŸ’» TECH
ā€˜Propaganda armā€™: TikTok search glitch stokes fear over Trumpā€™s new alliance with tech titans

Users online said they have been unable to access search results for terms including ā€œDonald Trump rigged electionā€ in the wake of the presidentā€™s inauguration.

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šŸ“¹ CREEPY
ā€˜Itā€™s OK little girl stop cryingā€™: Woman installs indoor Ring camera. Then she hears something disturbing

One mother reported that the Ring camera she kept inside her house spoke to her 3-year-old daughter

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šŸ½ļø DISCOURSE
Screens, space, or woke friends? People are debating the decline of dinner parties

People are eating up the new dinner parties discourse on X after a user pointed out the frequency of these get-togethers has declined.

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šŸ•øļø Crawling the Web

Here is what else is happening across the ā€˜net.

ā˜• Everyone knows that itā€™s good practice to tip. But what if you didnā€™t get the actual product or service you needed? This was a predicament faced by Starbucks customer in a viral video that has amassed 449,500 views.

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šŸ‘€ Shrinkflation is an issue weā€™ve reported on extensively here at the Daily Dot. Hereā€™s yet another example

šŸ“ A Texas Roadhouse server called out two different types of customers she serves in a viral video. Now, sheā€™s warning against this common behavior among one of the types.

šŸ§£ When you lose items you canā€™t track in public places, their fate can be uncertain. Youā€™d hope they end up in a lost and found, waiting for you to return. Unfortunately, thatā€™s not always the case.

šŸ„£ A woman found out the ā€œright wayā€ to prepare Campbellā€™s Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup. As it turns out, sheā€™s been doing it wrong this whole time. Have you? 

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šŸ”Š From the Daily Dot archive: Distorted TikTok sounds hurt marginalized creatorsā€”and AI is making it worse.


šŸ¤³ Todayā€™s Viral Video

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LCDkers4lzU
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