Новости за 04.11.2021

We’re always fascinated by animals showing in odd places or doing strange but amusing things—just look at pizza rat. But when one myth recently appeared to come to life, people easily found it both horrifying and endearing.

A TikTok video showing a an alleged Little Caesars employee making pizza sauce, with the sauce containers on the floor, has gone viral, sparking a debate on the platform.

This is a blog post that needs to begin with three caveats. First, inflation has had a very real impact, and it is squeezing the purse strings of the Americans who are least capable of stomaching it. Second, if you have a family, you are free to feed them and support their needs however you see fit. Third, the internet is full of callous, misanthropic East Coasters who often look down disdainfully on middle America, and highlighting their mockery is probably not the best use of anyone's time

Just to get this out of the way before we begin: Rotten Tomatoes scores are not a scientific measurement of artistic quality. Plenty of beloved movies were panned by critics when they came out, and that didn't stop people from loving them. And in terms of overall accuracy, Metacritic offers a more nuanced view than Rotten Tomatoes. RT just calculates a percentage of positive versus negative reviews.

Landlords became some of the pandemic's earliest villains, after businesses closed down and people were left facing rent with no consistent income. Tales of landlord woes, from withheld security deposits to the world's favorite botched paint job, quickly began circulating, even as people struggled to stay healthy and keep food on the table. The latest tale of landlord woes may top them all, however, after a TikToker revealed her landlord's extremely inadequate fix for a collapsing ceiling.

When a server shared her paycheck for a six-week period, the single penny she earned in wages sparked a debate on TikTok.

When the internet mixes with activism, the results can be tremendous, as seen in Egypt during the Arab Spring in 2011. There, a loose coalition of opposition groups organized via Facebook and overthrew the government, even after Hosni Mubarak’s regime pulled the plug on the internet. 

We’re reaching out to some popular creators to get their best tips and tricks for success and better understand the ups and downs of life as a trailblazer on the internet.

Even though I solidly identify as a member of Gen Z, I put off downloading TikTok for way too long. The reason, I kept telling myself, was that I already spent far too much time online. But as my friends kept sending me TikToks that ran the gamut of making me audibly laugh out loud or gasp in shock, I knew I had to just finally bite the bullet. 

TikToker @brandylong490 spray painted her bushes green after her Homeowners Association (HOA) complained about the dead leaves.

Popular TikTok creator, Big Brother contestant, and former Starbucks employee Christine Kominek (@meanychristiney) explains how to save money on a dirty chai at Starbucks in a viral video that has amassed over 2.4 million views and 342,000 likes since posting Tuesday.