Newsletter: Right-wingers outraged over chess piece

Internet culture is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter here. You’ll get the best (and worst) of the internet straight into your inbox.

Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr. 

Here’s the latest trending internet culture stories today: Right-wingers getting all worked up over a chess piece, an expert revealing that something could be hitching a ride on your Amazon packages, why the internet is praising a teammate after her coach pulled another player’s hair, and a Texas Roadhouse server dishing about a bizarre encounter that had. 

After that, our Senior Politics and Technology Editor David has a “Deplatformed” column for you. 

Also, don’t forget to scroll down below to see what the most popular story on the Daily Dot was yesterday in our “Hot on the Dot” section. 

See ya tomorrow! 

— A.W. 

Today in Internet Culture

OUTRAGE
Chess.com’s joke about renaming the bishop sparks unhinged right-wing outrage—and a new copypasta

Certain people online felt attacked when the Chess.com account created a joke post asking people to help them rename the “bishop” piece.

➤READ MORE

WTF
Expert issues warning about your Amazon packages. Then he reveals what’s hitching a ride inside your home

Most people don’t think twice about bringing cardboard boxes into their homes. However, according to a pest control expert, that habit could be inviting an infestation.

➤READ MORE

VIRAL
‘She’s a real one for stepping in’: High school coach grabs player’s ponytail—and her teammate wasn’t about to let it slide

A high school basketball coach’s dismissal for pulling a player’s hair has sparked widespread praise for a teammate’s protective intervention.

➤READ MORE

LABOR
‘Why did they give me this?’: Texas Roadhouse worker greets table. Then they hand her sheet of paper

“Why I go to my table, ask them how they were doing and greet myself, and they give me this. Why did they give me this?” the server says in a viral video.

➤READ MORE

We crawl the web so you don’t have to. Sign up to receive web_crawlr, a daily newsletter from the Daily Dot, in your inbox each day.

By David Covucci
Politics & Technology Editor

Snow WOKE? sNO Woke? Unpacking the inane ‘Snow White’ discourse

Deplatformed is a weekly column that looks into the nether reaches of the internet—outside the big few that everyone already covers—to tell you the political discourse online. It runs on Thursdays 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.

Well… this is certainly an Airbnb experience you don’t expect to have. A couple said a host tried to sleep with them.

A deal enthusiast posted about an encounter they had while purchasing a gift card at Walmart. Next time you hit up the retail chain, you may find the same thing.

This frustrated small business owner looked to Reddit for advice after an entitled customer had her family bombarded her flower shop with one-star reviews over roses.

Amid the shades of pale yellow, bright ochre, soft orange, and crisp white, there is nothing more jarring than seeing a shade of green in the cheese aisle at the grocery store.

From the Daily Dot archive: The many lives of the Dancing Baby, cyberspace’s first cringe meme.

Question of the Day

Everyone’s got opinions, and we want to know yours. Just click a button below to answer the question, and tomorrow we will let you know how fellow web crawlers like you answered. 

DO YOU PLAY CHESS?

To answer questions like this in the future, sign up for web_crawlr here.

Hot on the Dot

This was the most read story on the Daily Dot yesterday:

➤‘That’s straight up check fraud’: Customer sells Ford truck to dealership for $8,300. Then they check Capital One bank account