Новости за 12.08.2021

A TikTok video of a father and his family's 23-year-old nanny reenacting a scene from Dirty Dancing has gone viral and sparked concern from those who viewed it.

Space. The final frontier. Animated comedy. Where laughs reign as king. Put these two together and you've got the funniest sci-fi this side of Rick and Morty. Star Trek: Lower Decks is a comedy of galactic proportions.

A popular subreddit dedicated to COVID-19 conspiracy theories was quarantined on Wednesday after catching the attention of Reddit.

A recording of a woman allegedly screaming because she didn’t want a Black woman to treat her is going viral after being shared to TikTok.

Update 1:37pm CT, Aug. 12: When reached for comment, a DoorDash spokesperson told the Daily Dot in a statement that the company is "looking into this incident and will take appropriate action.”

A supporter of the QAnon conspiracy theory has confessed to murdering his two children after becoming convinced that they had been infected with "serpent DNA."

LaKeith Stanfield shared what appeared to be anti-vax sentiments in an Instagram post on Wednesday before he deleted it.

A new bill introduced by a trio of bipartisan senators seeks to shake up the "gatekeeper control" of app stores by big tech companies like Apple and Google.

A woman has gone viral for allegedly exposing a popular TikTok account that features videos of a TikToker and his friend, who is supposedly disabled.

Most conspiracy theories start with existing concepts or events, then take elements of them into fantastical directions. This way, the people who create and believe these theories can use the real elements in them as “proof” the invented elements were also real—and that they were right all along.

A TikToker claims that an innocent lemonade ordered at a Chipotle in Las Vegas led to that TikToker's "first DUI."

Working behind the counter at McDonald's is hard at the best of times, but it's much worse without air conditioning. That's why a team of Detroit McDonald's workers said they walked out of their store this week, documenting their protest on TikTok.

What If…? is something of a departure for the MCU: The franchise's first fully canonical animated series, and its first real foray into alternate timelines. Based on Marvel's long-running What If comics, it explores a different alternate-universe scenario in each episode. And like the iconic anthology series The Twilight Zone, each episode is introduced by an all-knowing narrator, a Watcher named Uatu.

Video footage shared on TikTok shows a “Karen” and her mom harassing a waitress in Ontario, Canada after she wouldn’t seat them in the restaurant due to COVID-19 restrictions. 

Video footage posted to TikTok on Monday shows a male “Karen” harassing two women and yelling transphobic comments at them at a Goodwill store in Lauderhill, Florida. 

Hello! Every week, our internet culture staff will discuss the world of streaming entertainment in this newsletter. In this week’s edition:

In a viral TikTok video posted by @brutamerica, a Wyoming, Michigan police officer is heard apologizing to a Black realtor after handcuffing him, his client, and his client’s son after mistaking them for someone who had broken into the house days before.

An eye-opening thread on Twitter lists dozens of instances in which anti-vaccine Facebook users asked for prayers after catching COVID-19.