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Hello! We're back to talk about the scandalous skins of Fortnite, a wicked trap set for Garfield Kart players, and life in "The Tubes." New puritan icon emerges At the beach rn but my brain is getting constantly flashed by this pic 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/ULjG6E7NAO — Gabriel (@Gabriel68MI) July 19, 2026 New-gen puritanism — younger people horrified by “unnecessary sex scenes” in movies, or by other forms of media that reveal the writer’s barely disguised fetish — is a topic that has already been...

Hello! This week, we’re showing up slightly late to talk about rook unions, stoned foxes, and Irish-accented emails. What should Star Fox look like? On May 6, Nintendo held a surprise Star Fox Direct presentation showing off a new entry in the series for the Switch 2. The new look of Fox McCloud and his squad drew immediate criticism on the internet as a “repulsive” switch from cartoons to taxidermy, with many comparing McCloud to the infamous “Stoned Fox”.

In most conversations about AI, the actual generated content that’s filling up our old social networks and video platforms is an afterthought. Anti-AI arguments focus on the evils of the technology and usually skim over the specifics of its output. Pro-AI boosters wildly exaggerate models’ capabilities and use cherry-picked examples that hide human retouching work.

Hello! This week, we’re talking about a sordid chapter in Minecraft history, a Dota 2 post that went horribly awry, and a grave insult to Burial’s music.

Hello! This week, we're talking about Donkey Kong sounds, Animal Crossing language, and emo robot bands. It's all animalese to me Animal Crossing (via Biticular) Animalese, a language native to Animal Crossing villagers, feels ubiquitous nowadays. Recent years have embedded it into the anachronistic continuum of nostalgia for trends ranging from the late ‘90s to the early 2010s.

Hello! This week, we're talking about liberal remixes, LARPing as AI, and Bombo World. Cookie, the digital baby bear that stole the internet’s hearts in 2019,is finally free. For years, 1999’s Cookie’s Bustle: Mysterious Bombo World — a surreal Japanese point-and-click adventure game — has been plagued by spurious copyright claims that threatened to condemn the game to obscurity.

Hello! This week, we're talking about Chicago’s finest, unholy chessboards, and hidden lobsters. @chicagosanitation is an Instagram account that posts vomitous animated PSAs about inhalant abuse, 9/11, red meat, and the talking dumpster Trashee; some say it isn’t run by the real department of Streets and Sanitation, though you never know.

Hello! This week, we’re talking about unidentified ducks, the int list, and Laura Palmer's theme. via Memory Alpha We recently came across an entertaining episode of the weird-internet podcast We Are Not Alive where the hosts discovered that the 110,000-entry Tardis Wiki (a product of the Doctor Who fandom) includes many entries for mundane concepts like urine, table, and gravy.

Hello! This week, we’re talking about shadowless fish, forbidden DLC, and the Mongol conquest of Baghdad. You would be forgiven for not noticing that 2025 was the “year of the agent,” though NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang and OpenAI’s Sam Altman did brand it as that early in the year.

Hello! We’re back in action after an unexpectedly long hibernation. This week, we’re talking about Kinect raves, radioactive spiders, and fishy experiences. PinkPantheress nostalgia ported to 3DS via Reddit Back in 2024, PinkPantheress’ music drew comparisons to Sonic the Hedgehog OSTs and the BGM for fighting game character selection screens.