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In a video posted on Monday, a police officer blocks a woman (TikToker @leannsedlockalley) from recording an interaction between a young Black man and other officers by standing in her way and threatening her with a citation.

Welcome to the Friday edition of Internet Insider, where we dissect the week online. Today:

A set of viral TikTok videos show a male Karen harassing elderly store owners in California over their mask policy at a sewing and arts and crafts store. 

I’m not surprised OnlyFans decided to ban porn. The site proved a lifeline for me during the pandemic, providing as much as $450 a month to offset creeping utility bills and socially distanced grocery deliveries. But as OnlyFans blew up amid the pandemic, I grew increasingly wary. Either an enormous anti-porn organization would target the company and kill its business partnership with payment processors, or it would sell out the sex workers who made the site popular and shift to influencers.

An investigation by the U.K.-based research group Logically has uncovered the identity of "GhostEzra," one of the biggest promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

Annette, French director Leos Carax's (Holy Motors) eclectic rock opera that tries to evade being placed into a single box, begins with a dismantling of the fourth wall. Set in a music studio, Carax—coming off a suggestion to the audience that they “hold your breath until the very end of the show” and to only make noises in your head—and his daughter Natsya observe a recording session of the instantly infectious earworm “So May We Start.” The performance starts off with Ron and Russell Mael (the... Читать дальше...

Mike Richards, the Jeopardy! executive producer who was chosen to fill in Alex Trebek’s shoes as the show’s next host, is out after a Ringer report resurfaced years-old podcasts in which Richards made offensive comments about women, Asians, and Jewish people.

"TikTok told me I might have cancer, and it seems like they were right," TikToker @seattletechbro says in his latest post from Aug. 20.

Hasan Piker, aka HasanAbi, has accumulated a large following with his leftist commentary on Twitch. This week, social media users were in turns surprised and underwhelmed to learn that the 1.5 million followers he has on Twitch has translated into real-world wealth.

Set in a college English department, The Chair offers a funny and nuanced look at campus culture wars. As the first woman and the first person of color to lead the department, Professor Ji-Yoon Kim (Sandra Oh) plans to shake up her college's old-fashioned image. But she soon learns that her dream job is actually a nightmare, torn between clashing factions at work and at home.

Jerry Messing, Freaks and Geeks actor and face of the "Fedora Guy" meme, is battling COVID-19.

That One Sound is a weekly column from senior internet culture writer Audra Schroeder that explores the origin of popular sounds heard on TikTok. Suggestions? Tips? Email audra@dailydot.com.

A viral TikTok video shows a woman saying the N-word as she walks by a Black resident's apartment unit.

A viral video on TikTok shows a high school teacher preparing her students to arm themselves with hammers in the event of a school shooting. 

Rachel Dolezal announced on Instagram on Wednesday that she has joined OnlyFans, a subscription-based site made popular by adult creators, and the internet is not taking the news lightly.

In a TikTok posted on Saturday, @justrantingtheblues films a Ketamine clinic in Chicago and calls it "the most colonizer thing" he's seen "in a long time."

A massive cicada killer wasp has one viral TikToker and her viewers freaking out.