Clavicular, real name Braden Peters, has been charged with rape in Massachusetts. In May of 2025, he allegedly [CW: Graphic]raped a 17-year-old girl after providing her with alcohol and drugging her with ketamine at his family’s home in Cape Cod.
The New York Times reports that the trad wife movement might be fading. The paper profiles Bernadine Barber, who goes by “Bernadine Bluntly” on TikTok, who used to espouse the conservative, traditional image of marriage. However, she had to get a divorce after surviving alleged domestic abuse.
In completely unrelated news, anti-feminist trad wife influencer Pearl Davis stormed off the set of a debate when her opponent pointed out that Davis is 29, unmarried, and has no children. Anti-feminist trad wife influencer Savanna Stone semi-apologized for failing to disclose a partnership that allegedly paid her to shill conservative values. Now, she is backtracking on her social media content and says she will no longer discuss controversial opinions online.
There was, “In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own?” by Nikole Hannah-Jones about how she regrets sending her Black daughter to an underfunded, primarily Black school instead of a better-ranking, primarily white school.
Earlier this month, there was “How Having a Disability Became Cool,” which makes the specious claim that “sickfluencers” are largely faking having chronic illnesses and disabilities for sympathy and clout. This claim has angered disability rights activists, who contend that it is already incredibly difficult to get their disabilities taken seriously, let alone be labeled “sickfluencers.” Now many content creators who have an invisible disability or a chronic illness are facing harassment, disbelief, and criticism, especially if they have an alternative look that people associate with being politically leftist.
A male makeup influencer called Lonnie Hammons criticized Eadem, a beauty brand owned by two women of color, for not being inclusive…toward men. Hammons dragged Eadem for including women of color in its branding, but not men, as well. Since, you know, everything needs to be for men. Predictably, the beauty community promptly dragged this take, and Hammons deleted his video and apologized.
Clarke Elizabeth Carraway and Taylor Williams of Love Island U.S.A. season 7 have broken up. Carraway claims that Williams left her stranded at a gas station in the middle of nowhere and she had to call his family members to pick her up. Williams was also criticized for physically shoving Carraway during two different livestreams. Williams posted an Instagram story of himself with a large scratch on his nose, seeming to imply that Carraway scratched him across the face.
Alo Yoga has allegedly been getting TikTok to ban the accounts of certain influencers who post videos of themselves wearing Alo clothing that they purchased themselves. Alo apparently used AI to scan TikTok content for counterfeit Alo items; however, the AI could not tell the difference between counterfeits and originals and filed copyright strikes against a bunch of people wearing authentic Alo products.
Alex Cooper’s media network, Unwell, released a new podcast called Petticoat Revolution. Its tagline is, “History meets girl talk.” Viewers quickly pointed out that this seems to be a direct ripoff of the podcast Right Answers Mostly, whose tagline is, “History is just gossip.” Both podcasts are about history, but make it women. The cover photos are even similar.
