Новости за 13.01.2024

Humanity will never stop looking for status symbols, and it's pretty easy to figure out what are the typical products that folks latch onto as part of their flex appeal: Cars, jewelry, homes, clothes, etc. Now, it involves the ubiquitous Stanley cup that has spurred a lot of controversy.

TikTok has been afire with story after story from Sephora employees about packs of 10-year-old girls roving the beauty store for skincare brands like Drunk Elephant, Laneige, Summer Fridays, and Glow Recipe.

A job seeker is sharing their frustration with the current job market landscape, which includes employers not being transparent about a job’s salary before they start interviewing candidates.

As the cold of winter gets people thinking about summer travel, one question comes to mind: how am I going to pay for it?

Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Andrew here. Welcome to today's edition of web_crawlr. 

Over the past year, TikTok has been gripped by the Stanley water bottle craze. The colorful item has become so popular that fights have broken out to get limited-edition bottles, and some have even gone so far as to laminate their labels to maintain the image of the bottle.

When getting a new electronic device, it’s not uncommon for there to be a protective plastic film covering the screen. This prevents scratches and keeps the screen looking brand new until it gets into the customer’s hands.

A woman shares a TikTok revealing an unexpected discovery about her UGG boots that she’s owned for six years: they’re fake.

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In a poignant 1:55 video with over 475,000 views, TikToker Kendall (@thatamazonguyy) shares the unfortunate news of his termination from Amazon. The former Amazon worker's dismissal stems from a previous video humorously requesting customers to refrain from ordering heavy items.

A NASA software engineer thinks that McDonald's is trying to swindle people into picking medium fries over large ones. Doty (@nldoty) uploaded his rant against the globally popular burger chain on his TikTok account where it has accrued over 211,000 views as of Friday.

Everyone wants to go viral.

But how do influencers feel when their viral videos receive a whole lot of negative feedback?

In a TikTok video that has racked up over 1.3 million views and over 18,000 comments, internet personality Joseph Fogg (@jfoggisback) leaned into his sex appeal to deliver what he thought was a steamy skit where he walked past a woman for the first time.

"What would you do if I walked past you like this?" text overlaid on the clip asked as Usher crooned... Читать дальше...

Even more drama is unfolding in the wake of Target's release of the limited-edition Valentine's Day Stanley cups. This time, a man's response to a woman's attempt at shaming him for being an alleged line cutter went viral after he tried to snag an exclusive Stanley cup.

We're just two weeks into 2024, but we're already a third of the way through winter, and the worst weather of the season is fast on its way. It's time to winterize your home before Old Man Winter unpacks his bags, and one professional plumber has taken to TikTok to tell you how.

A woman who booked a window seat on the plane found one thing missing when she got to her seat: The actual window.

Show of hands: How many of us still have, like, television? I don’t mean the physical object, because this isn’t a poll about whether you own a tv (though that was a fun thing to be mad about in 2014!). Owning a 67″ Samsung OLED 4K flatscreen to binge “Ted Lasso,” “I Think You Should Leave,” or “Jury Duty” isn’t the question here. I just want to get a quick sense of how many of us purchase cable television the old-fashioned way, like God and Travis Kelce intended. 

Just last week, a shopper went viral after saying that Hobby Lobby carries identical items at different prices. 

If your idea of a peaceful and relaxing honeymoon at a beautiful island resort doesn't include throngs of employees constantly harassing you for add-on services, then you should probably avoid picking Sandals for your vacation.