Starbucks brought back its Unicorn Frappuccinos, since 2016 is back in style and the company seems desperate to pump up its stagnant performance. Naturally, influencers have hopped onto the trend, posing content of themselves “enjoying” the drink.
However, one woman named Sofia captured a clip encapsulating everything infuriatingly wasteful, shallow, and artificial about influencer culture as it relates to viral food trends. She took a video of a garbage can overflowing with untouched Unicorn Frappuccino’s next to Los Angeles’ famous pink brick wall, where groups of people were posing photos.
Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorneys tried to call a TikTok-famous mental health influencer named Emily Thorndike as an expert witness. Thorndike is a licensed social worker turned TikTok mental health influencer. She became famous by commenting on viral true crime stories.
Thorndike made a viral TikTok criticizing the prosecution’s characterization of the conditions at McLean Hospital. Thorndike worked there until 2021; Lindsay Clancy sought mental health treatment there in 2022.
However, Thorndike drew criticism because when asked where she lived, she answered, “I actually live in Brooklyn, New York, but I summer on Cape Cod. I’m spoiled like that.” The immediate reaction was like, girl…why are you being sassy at a murder trial???? Thorndike has posted a classic influencer apology wearing an oversized sweatshirt and no makeup.
Chanty Beluga is a fictional character created by comedian Courtney O’Donnell. The shtick is that Chanty Beluga goes around saying her name, and it’s a weird name. Gotta admit, this is one of the least funny memes I think I’ve ever seen, and idg why the world is loving it so much.
https://instagram.com/p/DcKN1SGSB5u
Women have been going online and having their boyfriends read a list of words they think they can’t pronounce. The results are depressing, as so many of these men cannot pronounce words such as “quinoa,” “epitome,” and “colonel.” I remember mispronouncing “colonel” when I was in second grade and my teacher corrected me in front of everybody.
https://instagram.com/p/DcUF50cj4II
Okay, fuck that fruit ice cream shit, fuck the ice-cream-bar-in-a-croissant, fuck the dot cakes. The ULTIMATE viral dessert is here: a gooey chocolate chip cookie dumped, hot, over a big-ass scoop of vanilla ice cream. I think the original started here, but now they are all over the place. Some people don’t even use a spatula, just use a spoon to scrape up a big glorp of melty cookie.
Two of the top songs on TikTok this week are 2014’s “Talking Body,” by Tove Lo, and 2026’s “Around Me,” by Noodah05, which samples “Talking Body.”
TikTok brain candy + brainrot + ragebait has not been good for my me lately so it’s a short one this week, guys.
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