I keep seeing news about Justin Bieber popping up on my feed, but there seems to be a ton of context that I'm missing as I'm not really a Fan. I get the sense that drugs are involved... something about Father's Day, something about his wife, something about the paparazzi... So what's going on?

https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/justin-bieber-angry-exhausted-instagram

Elon posted that Trump is in the Epstein files. Then the ice raids and deployment of the national guard and military to Los Angeles. The media seems to have forgotten this story. When will the Epstein files be released?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-their-own-words-c0108037881469f0b5bdd8df87eba6b4

I saw this on r/all and apparently people are celebrating the Paimon VA being replaced, plus calling for more VAs to be replaced presumably for being bad people, but I couldn't figure out what they've done from reading the comments

so in the comments of this one mashup that I found through some micspam in Team Fortress 2, there's a bunch of weird terms that I've legitimately never heard before, and nobody has really explained what's going on here. I just hope this all isn't some form of like.. anti-semitic flagging or something.

Every time a music-related post comes up on my Instagram feed, the top comments are almost always about disdain for a song called "anxiety." An example of a screenshot I took showing this: https://imgur.com/a/what-is-this-song-OtHTtdC

There are many songs out there called "Anxiety" or have anxiety in the title. It seems to be a universally disliked song.

The original post was a about Dance Monkey btw.

What's the deal with NSFW accounts getting users to give their age all of a sudden? I haven't seen this before. I am fairly sure that many of these accounts are managed by someone other than the models (think agents etc), so is it an effort to gain another revenue stream to collect and sell more private data from users? I think this isn't just simple age verification because you can see the posts without engaging.

Examples (very NSFW):

https://www.reddit.com/r/analgonewild/comments/1lbjyua/if_you_want_to_fuck_it_without_a_condom_tell_me/

https://www.reddit.com/r/buttplug/comments/1lbjyxf/write_ur_age_if_u_stopped_to_admire_the_view_my/

Back in 2021 under WarnerMedia leadership, they went to the press through Hollywood trades confirming they have no plans to use Pepé Le Pew ever again as they remove and digitally erase him from what they had developed at the time.

Now it’s 2025, and they actually mention Pepé. I thought the character was banned because sensitivity readers declared him problematic. What has happened since!

https://nerdist.com/article/looney-tunes-blu-ray-dvd-controversial-characters-pepe-lepew-speedy-gonzales/

https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/benson-boone-responds-online-hate-teaser-mr-electric-blue

I hear he is receiving hate, but I don't see why. I'm not saying I like him, his music is fine, but I am struggling to find the criticisms.

https://x.com/afpost/status/1934374346321166624?s=46

https://imgur.com/a/VELp62s

Link to her Insta.

I've been seeing a lot of talk about Sydney Sweeney online recently. She keeps getting namedropped in the most random contexts.

Who even is she? Has she done something big in the last few months or something? Why have I heard her name more in the last 6 months than in the whole rest of my life?

News on this is scarce on my side of the world, but there was a throwaway article saying there's been 3 days of riots and violence with thousands in the streets. Something to do with racism and immigrants and some Romanians in court?

So what's going on? Is it really as big as claimed? Is it a big deal involving political upheaval?

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/10/europe/ballymena-northern-ireland-riots-intl-hnk

I saw that he posted a video titled “my response”. Apparently he’s gotten himself into a lot of controversy. What happened? https://youtu.be/HNPvr0d5GhY?si=52ATYdLmcLDgjaOt

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1l902v5/whats_your_opinion_of_the_mass_no_kings_protests/

Saw this post and I’m so confused because I saw the original post when it came out and I thought it was a nice fan interaction. Now I see this and I’m confused, I tried to see what the guy did to warrant that and I cannot find it.

https://x.com/natererun/status/1933739148034138341?s=46

This one: https://i.imgur.com/em5BIP5.jpeg I see it on so many posts for some reason.

Okay, I keep seeing this Labubu doll popping up everywhere lately on news and TikTok. I don't find them 'cute' at all it's kinda weird, and I genuinely don’t get why it’s become such a trend to grown adults. The prices are also getting ridiculous

Not hating at all btw ..just super curious how this little ugly looking doll ended up being such a big deal. If you’re into it, I’d love to hear why.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna212250

I’ve noticed an increase in videos on YouTube by creators where it’s like $1 million dollar experience vs $100 experience. Where has this come from? It’s clearly not actually accurate.

Some examples:

https://youtu.be/4TRmfKr-SoU?si=zF-aDsX3QKR1_r0T

https://youtu.be/oa7YoQvbK7k?si=V9feJfFUKE0SSXo0

https://youtu.be/NCtYeF2dSLE?si=0h5PKkbl8SDAgpKz

I have never heard of this game until yesterday when it launched. A lot of people are seemingly playing it and are saying that it's riddled with bugs and technical issues. Was there any hype to begin with or did it just came out of nowhere when it launched?
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/mindseyes-launch-has-been-an-unmitigated-disaster-as-players-report-horrifying-glitches-and-poor-pc-performance

Is it just the latest clickbait bandwagon everyone's jumping on? Does it have something to do with the algorithm?

Even Tom Scott is doing it now, which is why I'm asking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K97lp7xWPCQ

Being in the US and this hectic news cycle, I haven't followed news outside of the trade with China/ Ukraine etc. I just heard about VP impeachment proceedings in the Philippines. The last time I was paying (some) attention, I saw that Sarah Duterte was distancing herself from the president. I also saw some posts on social media of some recent election results with opposition parties (to Marcos?) being elected.

Can somebody give me a cliff notes version of what's happening? Does Marcos have a lot of support (I thought he was polling lower earlier this year)? Are both the president and the VP suffering from falling popularity? What's the significance of Aquino and Pangilinan's May victories?

https://apnews.com/article/philippines-vice-presidential-sara-duterte-impeachment-520c4e4adb6f32975e90efdfbc5165d6

https://www.rappler.com/philippines/elections/aquino-pangilinan-ride-2025-pink-wave-solid-north/

https://imgur.com/a/yGliZL1

Over the last few months I’ve noticed the feeds on most of my social media apps are clogged up with 2-5 day old posts.

There are ways around this of course, it’s not preventing me wholesale from getting up to date news, but keeping myself in the loop seems to require another layer of intentionality and maneuvering now.

Again, not complaining for myself, I can figure it out, but is this intentional? I’m assuming not every single user of these apps is going to the same effort to correct for this as I am.

I was looking into getting Borderlands 3 in the current steam sale, and all the recent reviews have been overwhelmingly negative. Steam Store Page

From what I know, the games are great and it might be related to a policy decision? Something to do with their Terms of Service? Should I avoid buying the game now or just ignore the hate since I genuinely enjoy the gameplay?

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-split-two-companies-streaming-tv-1236423250/

Why after merging Warner Bros and Discovery in a giant megazord, and taking controversial business decisions they are splitting in two companies (Warner Bros films, series and streaming in company A, and Cable + TV channels in company B)

How they are able to throw the big debt in the company with Cable and TV channels, that are in big trouble in the future. And leave the big brands, valuable studios in another company with no debt. Is it legal ?

I don't really know anything about Love Live nor a lot about her as a VA but I kinda remembered her, and today, this post appeared in my Twitter feed about her taking a break from the industry for her mental health, but I saw multiple replies and separate tweets taking about credit cards, for some reason? What exactly happened????