AI plumbers send boyfriends and husbands into a tailspin
If these pranks don’t increase AI literacy, nothing will.
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The latest AI prank involves “shirtless plumbers,” a car dealership is dealing with an unexpected uproar after selling a Mary Kay Cadillac to an influencer, and the chronically online are laughing at Andrew Cuomo for bringing up Twitch streamer Hasan Piker during the first New York City mayoral debate.
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“He was ready to FIGHT”: The AI shirtless plumber prank is giving boyfriends jealousy meltdowns
Another AI TikTok prank is causing jealousy attacks in boyfriends as women insert images of shirtless plumbers into their homes. Similar to the homeless man prank freaking out parents, this gag convinces men that hot dudes are fixing their appliances and exposing their partners to bare, chiseled muscles.
Be careful with this one. Girlfriends are easier to replace than children.
“Over a car?”: An influencer purchased a custom Mary Kay Cadillac. One of her haters called the dealership to confirm—the shocking message goes viral
An Ohio car dealership found itself in the middle of unexpected drama after selling a custom Mary Kay Cadillac to a TikToker. “I guess someone that follows her was not too happy about that,” the dealership wrote in the text overlay of its TikTok.
The video then cuts to a recorded phone call between a dealership employee and a woman who said she had been saving up to buy that exact 2015 Cadillac. When told it had already sold, she broke down in tears, venting that it wasn’t fair that an “influencer” got the car instead.
“Caught a wild stray”: Hasan Piker reacts to Andrew Cuomo demanding Zohran Mamdani denounce him during NYC mayoral debate
Things got weird at the NYC mayoral debate when Andrew Cuomo demanded Zohran Mamdani condemn Twitch streamer Hasan Piker. To a lot of people, Cuomo’s focus on trying to get Mamdani to “denounce” Piker felt like just another distraction with racist undertones.
The fact that Cuomo used a Twitch streamer that most people watching the debate have probably never even heard of just feels nonsensical, which led to a fair amount of mockery online.
🕸️ Crawling the Web
📣 A Reddit thread from a parent who can’t decipher her Gen Alpha daughter’s slang—phrases like “my bad chat” and “so mid”—has reignited the eternal generational language war.
🗣️ Keira Knightley is facing fierce criticism after appearing unaware of the ongoing controversy surrounding Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
🍩 A Dunkin’ Donuts customer visited the Salem, Mass., location to scope out the donut chain’s new Halloween decorations, and it made the internet extremely jealous.
🤠 Several TikTokers are going viral after claiming this year’s Texas State Fair looks unusually empty compared to previous years.
🐀 A new scientific study has finally ended the mystery of the “Chicago Rat Hole,” and the internet’s favorite rat is a rat no more.
🎃 From the Daily Dot archive: Counting down our top five Halloween memes of all time.
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