American tourist refuses to let go of pickpocket, literally
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Here are the latest trending internet culture stories today:
An American tourist in Venice is making headlines after her daughter shared a video of an interaction in which her mother grabbed a pickpocket by their hair, the internet is dunking on Pete Hegseth’s attempt at a pull-up, and an influencer decided to listen to the “intrusive thoughts” and ran onto an MLB baseball field mid-game.
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⚡️ Today in Internet Culture
American tourist in Venice latches on to pickpocket’s ponytail—and doesn’t ungrip til the police come
A woman shared the moment her mother snatched the ponytail of an alleged pickpocket in Venice, Italy, as she waited for police to arrive. The text reads, “When we were looking for our hotel, my purse was stolen out of my zipped-up book bag. We have spent the afternoon dealing with this.”
In the next clip, she shows a picture of her mom holding the alleged pickpocket by her ponytail.
“This is embarrassing”: Pete Hegseth mocked over awkward pull-up in RFK Jr. fitness challenge video
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is once again the subject of online mockery—this time for a pull-up he did in a video promoting fitness in the U.S. and the military.
While the idea of encouraging Americans to exercise is in and of itself a completely reasonable one, what drew some people’s attention was one moment in which Hegseth looked a little bit peculiar while trying to do a pull-up himself.
“Intrusive thoughts got the best of me”: TikToker Julia Hill jumps fence and runs onto the field at an Angels baseball game, goes straight to jail
With 1.7 million followers, it’s fair to say that TikToker Julia Hill is used to performing for an audience. However, during a recent Angels baseball game, she took this to a whole new level.
🕸️ Crawling the Web
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📣 Target’s CEO stepped down today, and those boycotting the store after it halted its DEI practices are celebrating the win over on TikTok.
📱 California Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest political strategy drew outrage from both sides following a dig at Rep. Nancy Mace on X.
▶️ OG YouTuber Grace Helbig spoke on a podcast about how cancel culture and commentary channels changed the internet forever.
🪱 A woman’s salmon filet from Costco went viral after she shared a close-up of something wiggling around inside of it.
🎂 Have you ever been to a cake picnic? If so, I’d love to know if it devolved into a giant mess like this one did.
🛒 A customer is accusing Walmart of marking items up under “clearance” tags.
🔥 Hot on the Dot
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