Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.
Happy Friday! We crawled the web for you and our top stories today include: how Facebook engineers admitted they don’t where all of its user data is, a deep dive on the “Loab” meme that’s haunting your timeline, a look at an editing mistake in House of the Dragon, and the return of the Daily Dot’s Behind The Seams video series that examines a different element of movie costume design.
After that, our Culture Editor Tiffany has her “This Week On The Internet” column breaking down the biggest discourse, and she shares with you her pick for meme of the week.
That’s quite a bit. See you tomorrow!
— A.W.
⚡ Today’s top stories
Facebook engineers admit there’s no way to track all the data it collects on you
Two engineers said there isn’t a “single person that exists” who knows where all its user data is.
Loab is ‘an emergent island in the latent space.’ It’s also a meme
It’s not a creepypasta, but it has become a copypasta. It’s “Loab,” the name for an AI-generated image of an unsettling woman with red cheeks that was revealed on Tuesday. Now, she’s a meme.
‘House of the Dragon’ didn’t edit out green screen gloves in latest episode
The show didn’t edit a shot meant to be edited through visual effects.
The complicated history of Starfleet’s minidress uniform
The Daily Dot’s Behind The Seams video series is back! This time, our Culture Reporter Gavia looks at the complicated history of Starfleet’s minidress uniform in Star Trek.
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The Queen died—and Twitter went wild
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🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.
🌯 Remember the $3 Chipotle burrito hack? Well, a Chipotle employee is going viral for sabotaging a customer’s order after they tried it. “Don’t try that $3 burrito hack at MY chipotle,” the worker wrote as a text overlay on his video.
💸 Asking your boss for a raise can be hard, especially when they tell you “no” and then brag about telling you no in a work meeting. One TikToker says this is exactly what happened to her.
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📅 Meme of the Week
OK, we have to circle back to the Don’t Worry Darling premiere memes because they were very good. This one shows Nathan Fielder talking about doing a rehearsal of the event.
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