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Tweets say Brian Laundrie, Gabby Petito’s fiance and a "person of interest" in the influencer’s homicide, live streamed on Instagram on Monday for a few seconds. Footage of the alleged live stream circulating on Twitter and TikTok shows open water, a camouflage Croc shoe, and a floating plastic jug.

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

A Sephora worker behind a cash register filmed herself interacting with a customer who wanted an even bigger discount on a product that was already on sale.

So far, Marvel's What If has gone in some surprisingly dark directions, with the first few episodes including a zombie apocalypse, a near-total wipeout of the Avengers lineup, Killmonger assassinating Tony Stark, and Doctor Strange becoming a supervillain. But episode 7 is getting a lot of positive attention for its silly, upbeat premise: A story where Thor is a "party prince" instead of an intergalactic hero.

People claiming to be AT&T customers are taking to social media to complain that they're receiving a significant number of spam texts. They say most of the texts claim to be from AT&T.

The year is 1988. A right-wing celebrity just finished his tenure as president. Everyone and their mom is playing Nintendo. Nostalgia rules everything around us. And a show called The Wonder Years tapped into this longing for yesterday. The more things change, the more they stay the same. However, The Wonder Years 2021 ain't your daddy's reboot.

A bipartisan group of attorneys general from 32 states is urging Congress to pass a package of several antitrust bills that would impact big tech companies.

Internet sleuths believe they've uncovered clues about Brian Laundrie's disappearance via the 23-year-old's Pinterest page.

A TikToker's video allegedly showing her "DIY IUD removal" has gone viral and is garnering widespread support from other people with uteruses, many of whom say they are also considering removing their own IUDs due to their lack of options in getting it removed.

A wide swathe of the American entertainment industry is getting ready to go on strike, protesting against unfair and unsafe working conditions. They're represented by IATSE, a union with around 150,000 members covering behind-the-scenes jobs like editors, costumers, hairstylists, lighting technicians, and cinematographers.

While antitrust matters have had the spotlight at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in recent months, a new nomination to fill out the commission is sending public interest groups and observers a signal that privacy and data abuse enforcement could be on the horizon.

George Lucas was famously influenced by samurai films like Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress when he made the original Star Wars, and the homages (and appropriation) of eastern culture were apparent in many of the stories that followed it. It took more than 44 years after A New Hope first graced the screen, but it’s fitting that Japanese filmmakers are finally having their turn in the Star Wars sandbox. Star Wars: Visions, which is composed of nine animated shorts crafted by seven anime studios, is the end result. Читать дальше...

Read Choi, a content creator especially well-known for his TikTok videos, is being accused of mishandling money for a GoFundMe cause he started—to raise funds for a homeless woman he featured in a TikTok video.

With the disappearance of Gabby Petito making headlines across the nation, several critics and activists have taken to social media to discuss the disproportionate media coverage given to Black and Indigenous people compared to white people. Folks are calling it “missing white woman syndrome.” 

The Teton County Coroner confirmed today that human remains found in Wyoming on Sunday are those of missing woman Gabby Petito. 

A white college student at Methodist University has come under fire after doing a PowerPoint presentation on what features she finds “ugly”—using only pictures of Black students on the school’s football team. 

Why are people saying "Mommy? Sorry. Mommy?" all over TikTok? It's complicated.

Analysis

The recent cottagecore-inspired trend of loose, throwback '70s dresses upset some people. But while critics see it as a conservative, repressive trend, fuelled by recent attacks on women's bodily autonomy and sexual freedom, others think it's really not that deep—and moreover that framing it as such is typical white feminist nonsense.

https://www.twitter.com/haaniyah/status/1440236023359827977?s=20

Cottagecore, an aesthetic created by young, predominantly queer women on Tumblr and TikTok... Читать дальше...