Drew Afualo, a popular content creator, had gender-nonbinary lesbian actor E.R. Fightmaster on her podcast. In their interview, Fightmaster said, “My truest thought on this is I think trans women have a more beautiful understanding of what womanhood is… I think that unfortunately the programming for cis women is, it is kind of sad. No, your womanhood is not your role, your status in society, and is not your ability to be sexually assaulted.”
The comment prompted mass outrage throughout TikTok and other corners of the internet. A few voices are defending them, but it’s almost impressive how haters from all walks of life came together to talk shit about one clip.
Fightmaster doubled down on their comments, and Afualo defended them. In a follow-up post, Afualo tagged several trans female content creators with whom she claimed to be friends. However, one of the creators she tagged came out and stated that they do not know her personally.
Sadly, the truly fucked-up thing about this discourse is that transgender people have been caught in the crosshairs for an incident in which they played no part.
A 26-year-old Disney adult named Christina Toni Kulusich has been accused of harassing a Peter Pan character actor at Disneyland. Kulusich posted a clip of a long interaction in which she gifts a crocheted duck to Peter and takes his picture. He seems to try to wrap up the interaction politely, but she continues to follow him around for an extended period, filming all the while.
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A woman named Helen Taylor posted a video of herself making toast with the caption, “turns out toast is kinda chic.” It immediately became a meme, with people spoofing it and mocking it for its apparent brainrot value. Idg the animosity, because it is indeed just some toast. It’s like that “call me crazy, but I’ve never liked store-bought pesto” meme from a few years ago.
Speaking of exhausting responses to TikTok moments, another topic of discourse on TikTok was discourse on TikTok. Seems like everyone is sick of thinkpieces after responses after ragebaiting after reactions.
Alex Cooper’s beverage brand, Unwell, is going out of business. It just launched in 2025 in partnership with Nestle and it was sold at Target, so even with that support you know it must have sucked.
The trial of Lindsay Clancy is underway in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Clancy confessed to murdering her two young children in a bout of psychosis. True crime TikTok has been all up in this tragic story. In particular, there is a large contingent of people on TikTok who believe that Lindsay Clancy’s husband, Patrick Clancy, framed her and committed the murders.
A few months ago, a creepy man wearing Meta glasses filmed himself hitting on a young woman who was sitting alone in the London Underground. This week, the girl — who, as it turns out, is only 17 — came forward view to discuss how much the incident frightened and upset her.
A terrible time to have eyes: the Addicted to Dance trend, where you dance to the song “Addiction” by Ryan Leslie with another person. The choreography involves either pretending to wipe your crotch, or pretending to jerk off a penis and spray the cum while the other person dances in it. God, I wish I were exaggerating.
Viral trend: the Spider-Man jumping trend. You angle your camera just so, then film yourself so it looks as if you are Spider-Man hanging from your ceiling.
It’s always hard to tell whether a product goes viral authentically or whether it’s marketing, but here are the viral Zara dresses that have dominated FashionTok.
Millenials had the “Paparazzi” kid. Gen Z had that one yodeling boy. Now, at last, Gen Alpha has found its own viral vocal tween boy, risen from the depths like a mythical siren. The 12-year-rapper JJQ went super viral for his rap performance at Lollapalooza. Partly because it referenced Rin Tin Tin, and people were pleasantly surprised that a 12-year-old has heard of Rin Tin Tin.
Finally, this lettuce has been reposted more than 20 million times on TikTok. It is a picture of lettuce with the text, “I don’t think you’d send your friend a video of lettuce 100 times just to annoy them.” Apparently a lot of people did. I guess the lettuce is this generation’s Pizza on tumblr.
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