Uh, why is Pete Hegseth joking about the Pentagon pizza conspiracy right now?
Plus: The Tyra Banks "personal trauma" meme.
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Here are the latest trending internet culture stories today:
Pete Hegseth is joking about the internet’s favorite wartime conspiracy theory: the Pentagon pizza report.
A Marriott guest staying in Mexico complained about the checkout time change on Reddit, and is getting absolutely fried for it.
I’m sorry, but the meme making fun of Tyra Banks forcing models to “pose with their trauma” is cracking me up. People can be so creative…
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— W.J.
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Pete Hegseth floats plan to personally sabotage the Pentagon Pizza Report
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spent part of his weekend thinking about pizza. Specifically, he joked about ordering it in bulk to confuse people watching the Pentagon Pizza Report. While the idea sounded silly, it tapped into a long-running internet conspiracy theory about tracking the late-night pizza orders in the area around the Pentagon as a clue to looming military action—including Israel’s attack on Iran last June.
Tourist trapped in Mexico during cartel violence gets roasted for complaining about Marriott checkout time
A Marriott guest is getting blasted online after complaining about the checkout time as cartel violence rages across Mexico. Since then, violence has broken out in retaliation for Oseguera Cervantes’s death. This has resulted in certain parts of Mexico implementing a “shelter in place” directive, effectively stopping travel in or out of those locations and trapping people who were visiting from elsewhere.
Tyra Banks forcing models to pose with their trauma on “ANTM” inspires the “traumatic photo shoot” meme
The ANTM documentary has just been released on Netflix, and it’s been quite the hot topic since its debut. In fact, social media is currently obsessed with Tyra Banks. People can’t stop making fun of her behavior, both as the host of the reality series and as the subject of the new docuseries. First, the doc sparked a “lack of accountability” meme, and now folks are parodying Banks forcing models to pose with their trauma.
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