Новости за 03.11.2021

Hello! Every Wednesday, our internet culture staff discusses the world of streaming entertainment in this newsletter. In today's Insider:

In a heartbreaking viral video, TikToker alleged her fiancé burned her house down after she told him she was tired of being "mentally and emotionally abused."

A TikToker caught a guy she met at bar texting about her to his brother, a viral video shows.

Much has been written about Dune’s Islamic and Middle Eastern background. In the Washington Post, Haris Durrani describes Frank Herbert's Dune novels as "thoroughly Muslim," treading a line between homage and cultural appropriation. The books borrow vocabulary from Arabic, and as Roxana Hadadi points out in Vulture, the Fremen (the indigenous population of Arrakis) were partly inspired by the Bedouin people of the Arabian Peninsula. Yet Denis Villeneuve’s Dune tries to dilute and downplay these influences, with mixed results. Читать дальше...

A viral TikTok video shows a Black man confronting a woman for allegedly calling him the N-word near a pizza joint in Brooklyn.

Republican Glenn Youngkin will be the next governor of Virginia. His win over Democrat Terry McAuliffe is seen as a stinging rebuke to Democrats ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

A TikToker shared in a now-viral video how she discovered she has 50 siblings.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it was sending checks totaling around $60 million to drivers who had their tips illegally taken by Amazon.

A Chipotle location in Bardstown Road, Kentucky, was reportedly forced to temporarily close its doors after half of its staff walked out on the job.

As someone who wants the MCU to explore new territory, it brings me no joy to say that Eternals is dull. Spanning 7,000 years, it's a fantasy tale about a team of immortal aliens who watch over Earth like intergalactic park wardens. Echoing Wonder Woman's Amazon society, they vow not to interfere in human conflicts. But this moral dilemma stretches credulity to breaking point. Not only did the Eternals refuse to help when Thanos killed half the population (a detail that must be tackled with some laborious plothole-darning)... Читать дальше...

In a video posted on Oct. 28, TikToker Sabina (@sabinahbaby) "[found] out [her] neighbor is a radio host" after hearing him talk about her on air.