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Here are the latest trending internet culture stories today:
A Redditor shared his recent frustration over a mystery charge that appeared on his bill, tracking the internet’s reactions to Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off the air, and Hank Green apologized to the knitting community on TikTok.
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⚡️ Today in Internet Culture
“I would refuse to pay the bill”: Customer says they were charged a “quiet time” fee at a restaurant
A Redditor claimed they were charged a new kind of fee while dining at a nearly empty restaurant. The charge, which was added before the tip, appeared as a “Quiet Time Surcharge” on their bill. The story quickly picked up the debate, where users argued about whether the fee was even legal.
Trump cheers, Vance trolls, internet fumes: reactions to Jimmy Kimmel’s show getting yanked off the air
Disney-owned ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be “pre-empted indefinitely” following the late-night host’s Monday monologue about the right’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death.
The decision, which Trump celebrated on Truth Social, has ignited a wave of criticism online, with many accusing the network of caving to political pressure and stifling free speech.
“I hope this makes sense”: Hank Green apologizes to knitters after controversy
Knitting usually isn’t the sort of subject you’d expect to spark drama on YouTube. But recently, that’s exactly what happened when science communicator Hank Green stepped into the world of yarn and purl. His SciShow video, “Physicists Don’t Understand Why Knitting Works,” ended up frustrating knitters who felt the episode dismissed the history, skill, and complexity behind the craft.
After days of watching the conversation spiral, Green finally addressed it in a TikTok video. He admitted he had been reading through a flood of comments and watching response videos before deciding how to reply.
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🕸️ Crawling the Web
🍋🟩 LimeWire has come out as the mystery buyer of the Fyre Fest name, which is a sentence millennials are having a good chuckle over.
🛍️ Disney fans are begging the company to do something about the online resellers ruining the Disney Character Warehouse.
🎾 Taylor Townsend is offering up an apology after making fun of the food she was served while in China for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals.
🎮 A man who designed an old-school Game Boy game to memorialize his late grandmother is going viral on Chinese social media.
❤️🩹 A woman put her ex, in-laws, and best friends on blast in a viral takedown watched 3.5 million times on TikTok.
🍔 McDonald’s had to release new policies in Japan to prevent the scalping of Pokémon cards in Happy Meals.
🔥 Hot on the Dot
This was the most-read story on the Daily Dot yesterday: