BET sat down with viral sensation Antoine Dodson, who became a beloved Internet meme thanks to his hilarious and dramatic local news interview. He’s now all grown up and is as amused at his Internet fame as the rest of us. “Hide yo kids, hide yo wife, and hide yo husband cuz they rapin’ everybody…
Two Canadian women in their twenties, who documented their lavish 68-day world cruise on Instagram only to later be caught smuggling more than $23 million worth of cocaine, have been sentenced in Australia and may not be getting out until long after Instagram is no longer cool. In case you missed it, here is a…
Last week, we brought you the instantly immortal tale of the Mad Pooper, a jogger in Colorado Springs who won’t stop crapping on one family’s front lawn despite the fact that the house is next to a public park and its public restrooms. At the time, the Buddle family had caught the lone jogger dropping…
No one, not even Ellen and all the selfie-taking celebrities in the world, can come between a man and his chicken nuggets! Carter Wilkerson, a 16-year-old high school junior from Reno, Nevada, sent out a seemingly innocuous request to the vast Twitterverse on April 5th, asking for retweets so he could land a year’s worth…
It’s been a week, but the viral spread of one special post from the Joanna Gaines blog shows no signs of slowing. Joanna shared a sweet photo of she and Chip’s daughter Emmie staring out the window in her bedroom, and captioned it with a message of love and hope for all present and future…
Who is Justin Bieber’s online crush, and how is she responding to his unwanted advances? This unexpected story took a sharp left turn this week, when a mystery girl whom Bieber asked his millions of fans to discover the identity of went viral–and not necessarily in the good way. As is the case with almost all things…
The internet is still obsessed with Zola’s story, a thoughtful (and supposedly true) take on Thelma and Louise involving a 48-hour trip to Florida that included stripping, trapping (aka prostitution), homicide, human trafficking, and attempted suicide — all told 140 characters at a time via the @_zolarmoon Twitter account. But it appears that Zola’s story is merely Thelma’s account of…
In case you missed it, the biggest summer action/thriller blockbuster of 2015 isn’t in the theaters–it’s on Twitter, courtesy of user @_zolarmoon. Now being called simply “Zola’s story,” the epic tale of Zola’s (real name Aziah King) ill-fated overnight trip to Florida with a woman she met while waitressing at Hooters includes stripping, prostitution, kidnapping,…
Back in August, YouTube vloggers Sam and Nia’s pregnancy announcement went viral when he flipped the script by telling her the news. Just days later, the couple revealed they lost the baby — which fueled speculation about whether Nia was ever pregnant. The month ended with Sam confirming he used Ashley Madison after he was…
A Texas-based textbook publisher is under fire and promising to make revisions after an image of one of its book’s sections on slavery went viral. What’s the controversy? The book refers to slaves as “workers”–a whitewashing that’s prompted ire from a number of sources. Pearland, Texas-based McGraw Hill Publishing apologized for referring to “workers” in…
YouTuber Nicole Arbour has doubled down on the fat shaming comments in her “Dear Fat People” video–comments which have drawn the ire of observers across the internet, seen Arbour lose thousands of followers, and gotten her fired as choreographer from a major motion picture. In response to widespread criticism of what critics say is Nicole Arbour…
This week, HGTV and DIY Network star Nicole Curtis was the victim of a robbery in downtown Detroit. That story got blown a bit out of proportion, though, thanks to what Curtis is calling a series of misunderstandings between her account, the police report, and the media’s coverage. If you saw any of the news accounts…
A massive pillow fight at the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point very nearly ended in tragedy when over two dozen cadets required evaluation by medical personnel. All told, 24 young soldiers were treated for injuries suffered in the huge pillow fight–fought with standard-issue pillows, plus some augmentation–though no cadets have been dismissed over the incident….
After the pregnancy and miscarriage videos from YouTube vloggers Sam and Nia went viral, Sam Rader said he was enjoying the attention because he “always had a dream to be famous.” But now he’s learning that fame has its downsides: Rader was kicked out of a vlogger conference this weekend after getting into an argument with…
The Great Asparagus Water Prank of 2015 is officially over. Unfortunately, the joke was on us. Whole Foods execs have yanked asparagus water after ridicule of the product went viral. The company is now pleading with its customers to overlook the gaffe. Asparagus water became a thing last week, after intrepid Instagrammer Marielle Wakim…
Poh is a 15-year-old yellow Labrador from New Jersey. He has terminal cancer, a “softball-sized” tumor on his liver, and several smaller tumors around his kidneys, and, upon the initial diagnosis of his problems, was given only a few days to live. So, owner Thomas Neil Rodriguez did what we should all do…
A prominent Muslim cleric in Turkey has called upon frequent masturbators to cease all masturbatory activities, lest they find themselves with pregnant hands in the afterlife. Mücahid Cihad Han was faced with the problem of one particular man who called into his television problem to confess constant masturbation. The man said he kept masturbating…
First it was the #KylieJennerLipChallenge. Then came the mysterious Game of 72. Now, following in the foodsteps of those grand trend-itions (sorry; couldn’t resist), it’s the #CharlieCharlieChallenge: the latest Twitter sensation to sweep across the nation. The Charlie fad didn’t originate in America, but it sure is gaining visibility and followers here. So–what is this…
Nancy Gordeuk found herself at the receiving end of intense scorn this weekend, after racist remarks she made at her own school’s graduation went viral. And “her own school” really does mean “her own”–Gordeuk is the founder and principal of the TNT Academy in Stone Mountain GA. When an oversight on Gordeuk’s part led…
Are beards really dirtier than toilets? A recent wave of pseudo-science articles has swept across social media, and claims that the average beard is dirtier than the average toilet. Is that accurate? How clean are our hairs? Should you be worried? (In case you’re really worried: The short answer is “No.”) You may have noticed…
It didn’t take long for #HowToSpotAFeminist to become more than just a viral sensation. In less than a week, the Twitter hashtag has gone from weapon to means of empowerment, and has begun a far-reaching debate about the meaning of feminism in the early 21st century. In case you missed it: a few days…
Relax, America: The 76-year-old breastfeeder story is a hoax. The weirdest viral story of the week has been disproven. But it is still the weirdest story of the week. The internet was taken aback earlier this week–and rightly so–when the story of a 76-year-old mother getting kicked out of a KFC for breastfeeding her 42-year-old son…
It’s been exactly one year since three young ladies from Oregon went viral after they were seen twerking outside of Beaverton City Hall (and peeing in the parking lot) before then being pulled over by police with drugs in their possession and being arrested. Filmmaker Joe Hackman was particularly moved by this Twerkspearian tragedy and…
Eight years ago, Howard Davies-Carr uploaded a video of then 3-year-old Harry Davies-Carr and 1-year-old Charlie Davies-Carr to YouTube to share a silly moment between brothers. Little did he know it would become one of the most popular YouTube videos of all time with more than 816 million views to date. In the time since…
If you’ve been on the internet in the past eight years, you’ve seen the “Success Kid” meme. It’s the one of the adorable, chubby-cheeked little boy pumping a fist full of sand at the beach. And probably eating some of the same sand. But he’s adorable and chubby-cheeked and eminently meme-able, so who cares?…
There’s a viral story currently making the rounds about a woman named Jenny Peak who was arrested in Chicago after winning a $12 bet with her stepfather after he said she couldn’t “kick her own ass.” According to the story, police were called to a home where they found Jenny hitting herself in the head…
Tonight was the Top 8 girls performances on American Idol and Jax all but guaranteed her performance would be memerable by wearing “The Dress” that took the internet (and the recesses of my brain) by storm last week! Amazingly, and perhaps to their credit, none of the judges picked up that the world’s biggest celebrity…
One of 2014’s most light-hearted, feel-good stories has taken a very sad turn as 17-year-old Draven Rodriguez, whose petition to include his laser portrait with his cat in his high school yearbook went viral, committed suicide on Thursday. The Times Union spoke with Draven’s dad, Jonathan Stewart. “He made friends wherever he went,” he said…
What is life like after going viral?
Read on to find out what happened to the “JK Wedding Entrance Dance” couple and find out if they’re still together today.
Shanesha Taylor, the unemployed single mom who made headlines in March after she was arrested for leaving her two sons in a hot car while she went in for a job interview, is once again facing felony abuse charges after failing to put $40,000 of more than $140,000 in donations raised in a trust fund for her kids. Among the things Shanesha has reportedly spent donations on instead is her “baby daddy’s rap album.”
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