Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Our top stories today are about: How the internet reacted to President Biden wearing a Trump hat, the thoughts people have about an expensive Beetlejuice tie-in drink at AMC, Apple being roasted for a new iPhone feature that Google released 7 years ago, and a Domino’s customer finding something unexpected on her boneless wings and pizza.
After that, we’ve got another edition of “Meme History” for you.
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⚡ Today in Internet Culture
🧢 VIRAL POLITICS
MAGA fans read way too much into Biden donning a Trump 2024 hat
The White House clarified the moment was about unity.
🍹 POP CULTURE
AMC’s $31 ‘Beetlejuice’ drink goes viral for all the wrong reasons: ‘the world we live in’
The expensive tie-in drink has people posting their disbelief, awe, rage, and confusion.
📱 TECH
Apple roasted over new iPhone 16 feature that Google released 7 years ago
Not everybody was convinced that the features were anything new.
🍕 YIKES
‘They lied to you’: Domino’s customer finds something unexpected on her boneless wings and pizza. The workers tell her it’s cornmeal
Every once in a while, your takeout order might come along with a hair or another foreign matter you didn’t anticipate. That’s the experience one Domino’s customer is going through online.
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🕸️ Crawling the Web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
📦 An Amazon driver bristled at delivery instructions that were too “sassy,” and he followed along with other drivers who had apparently disappointed that customer.
🦟 We all know that summer is peak mosquito season. Sometimes, it might feel like mosquitoes never leave you alone. But did you know that there are actual reasons for this?
👗 Retail workers don’t have it easy—from customers doing the deed in dressing rooms, to leaving behind garbage, to ruining merchandise, store employees deal with a lot.
💸 An Instacart shopper exposed the “crazy” demands of a customer who only initially tipped $2.50. The customer later reduced the tip to $0.
🧸 In a viral video, this mom was shocked by how the kids’ toy aisle has transformed and questioned whether what she’s seeing is okay for kids’ development.
💼 From the Daily Dot archive: For Gen Z, office culture is both nostalgic and glamorous (sometimes).
🤳 Today’s Viral Video
Imagine being an A-list movie star and then going broke.
