Students Got Soaked at Their Graduation Because the School Had a “Rain or Shine” Policy — Internet Cannot Agree on Who Is to Blame

According to reports, the school had a standing "Rain or Shine" policy that prevented the ceremony from being postponed or moved indoors. The decision drew immediate criticism onl ...
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Teacher Says High School Senior Who Never Attended Class Showed Up With Seven Days Until Final Grades — and the School Told Him to “See What He Could Do”

High School senior showed up to class with just 7 days left for final grade infuriated teacher, sparking debate on Reddit.
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Woman Filled a Bag With Oatmeal Cream Pies From a Small Colorado Farm Stand, Said “Thanks” to the Camera and Left — Twice

A surveillance video caught a woman lifting several oatmeal cream pies from an honor-system farm stand. The video has been shared by Gone Astray Goods, a micro-bakery in Loveland, Colorado. After the ...
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“Companies Would Rather Protect Their Profit Margins”: TikToker’s Grocery Store Expose Has the Internet Split

Grocery stores might not be lowering prices on produce on purpose, according to a TikToker. The woman who goes by @itskaylajaiden on TikTok recalled her second “big girl job” at a grocery store and ...
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Viral Domino’s Video Shows Customers Demanding a Refund for Pizza They Already Ate — the Comment Section Picked a Side Immediately

A video of a Domino's employee calmly refusing a refund request for food two customers had already finished eating is getting attention on X and Reddit. When offered store credit, the customers ...
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“Wedding hostage situation”: Southwest passengers forced to attend surprise mid-flight wedding at 30,000 feet

Two lovebirds tied the knot at 30,000 feet on a Southwest flight last weekend, forcing other flyers to attend the surprise wedding. Over the second weekend of January, TikToker @katrinabadowski posted ...
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Man Says He Won Millions in the Lottery 11 Years Ago, Secretly Stayed ‘Broke,’ and Never Told His Family

Posting from an anonymous account on r/AMA, user Think-Assistance-419 hosted an AMA discussion. He won the lottery over a decade ago and his family still believes he is broke. "Been carrying this ...
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“Stop the fake outrage”: White House leans on baffling “Lion King” defense after Trump posts racist Obamas-as-monkeys video

The White House dismissed backlash after President Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video depicting former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama as apes, calling criticism ...
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“I Guess the Wind Must Have Blown It Off”: Reddit’s Best Responses to Pool Chair Towel Hogs Are Going Viral

A Reddit post about towel-hoarded pool chairs left unoccupied for three hours at an apartment complex has gone viral on r/mildlyinfuriating, and the comment section delivered some creative solutions.
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“Trying to Get the Owner to Pay”: Family Wakes Up to Loud Hammering Outside and Finds Strangers Tiling Their Front Entrance

Loud, chaotic and unexpected hammering before anyone had gotten up. That's how the morning started for a Reddit user at her boyfriend's family home in the Czech Republic. She posted about the incident ...
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“Reddit moderators should be treated like celebrities”: Ex-mod posts epic YouTube rant after his removal, inspiring parodies

Drama has exploded around the removal of an r/LivestreamFail moderator after he promoted a vanishing reality show many fear was a scam. The ex-mod went on to make a 20-minute video insisting that ...
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‘Many plane crash, no egg’: The internet is coping with plane crashes the only way it knows how…memes

With the recent and frequent plane crashes, folks online have taken to dark humor in posting plane crash memes. In some of the posts, they joke about not flying unless their pilot is a DEI hire or ...