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Chad meme: Virgin Walk vs. Chad Stride

The Virgin vs Chad meme, explained

The Chad meme has led to shipping and fan art.

On Feb 6, 2024 by Jay Hathaway

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‘So a mandatory tip’: Restaurant calls itself a ‘no-tip establishment.’ But it’s charging a 17.5% service fee to pay workers

'Raise your prices and stop tipping.'

On Feb 5, 2024 by Jack Alban

Starbucks worker shows the state of the cold brew machine at their store

‘Welp, not drinking cold brew anymore. Thank you’: Starbucks worker shows the state of the cold brew machine at their store

‘Don’t you mean the mold brew machine?’

On Jan 22, 2024 by Maya Wray

Store questions customer's decision to leave no tip

‘That might be an accident. Would you like to leave a tip?’: Local brewery questions customer’s decision to leave no tip on 4-pack of beer

'Soon they will ask us to tip cashiers at grocery stores.'

On Jan 22, 2024 by Tiffanie Drayton

Customer says the default tip for a single $5 croissant was 102%

‘It really is turning into low key scamming’: Customer says the default tip for a single $5 croissant was 102%

'Can't hit that no tip button hard enough.'

On Jan 22, 2024 by Jack Alban

Customer gets asked to leave tip to pay for workers’ bonuses for the quarter

‘Now I’m responsible for company bonuses’: Online shopper gets asked to leave tip to pay for workers’ bonuses for the quarter

'This is becoming more and more common.'

On Jan 22, 2024 by Braden Bjella

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‘People shouldn’t have to “opt out” of anything’: Customer takes back the 18% gratuity that was automatically added to their check

'They figure once they've added it, you'll be too embarrassed to ask them to remove it.'

On Jan 17, 2024 by Allyson Waller

Statrbucks barista with metal cup (l) coffee beans (c) Starbucks cashier at register (r)

‘We were also told now to not tell anyone’: Starbucks worker says management told them to use decaf after running out of regular coffee, espresso

'We are serving them decaf without them knowing.'

On Jan 16, 2024 by Stacy Fernandez

Tide Pods locked behind clear casing (l) Target (r)

‘Are people actually stealing these?’: Target worker questions store after it locks up Tide Pods in individual boxes

'I've seen it done at several stores.'

On Jan 16, 2024 by Jack Alban

TikToker explaining that Cane's Chicken Tenders are now being made smaller.

‘What is this? A nugget for ants?’: Raising Cane’s customer claims chicken tenders are now smaller

'Canes is out here doing us dirtyyyy'

On Jan 14, 2024 by Stacy Fernandez

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EpsteinGPT—built to parse new unredacted documents—earns creator warning from OpenAI

The custom AI produced lists of names from the court documents.

On Jan 4, 2024 by Marlon Ettinger

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The dumbest moments in big tech in 2023

Big tech had a number of big fails.

On Dec 22, 2023 by Marlon Ettinger

View of a cozy reader's corner with a table lamp spending warm light

‘The lamp story is WILD’: Haunting internet legend revived in creepy TikToks

'The lamp story made me question EVERYTHING.'

On Dec 7, 2023 by Audra Schroeder

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‘NASTY business’: Spotify criticized massive layoffs week after year-end Wrapped went mega-viral

'Bad vibes.'

On Dec 4, 2023 by Marlon Ettinger

The 'always has been' meme: Wait, it's all Ohio?

The ‘always has been’ meme: Wait, it’s all Ohio?

'It's a parody of a generic action movie scene that a lot of people can imagine in their heads.'

On Dec 3, 2023 by Phil West