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#ThingsIdStillDoIfIWereRich Is Trending On Twitter Right Now, So Here’s My List
People on Twitter are currently outlining their list of things they would continue to do even if they were rich with large sums of money. I feel that energy because there are some things I still do now that people might consider beneath them, but I’m perfectly OK with. I’m going to lay some of…
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A Whole New WTF: First Look at Live-Action Aladdin Emerges—and So Do the Jokes
Aladdin can show you the world, but first we have an entertainment magazine’s first look at an overlord’s property remake. Disney shared movie stills with Entertainment Weekly from the upcoming live-action remake of its classic animated film, Aladdin, on Wednesday. And um, let’s just say folks were a bit… taken aback by the cover image.…
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I Just Want to Find Someone Who Loves Me as Much as These KFC Employees Love Their Coworker
It’s hard working at The Root. I have been ridiculed for having never tried bacon. One editor whose name rhymes with Schmangela Shmelm once threatened to beat me with a wet noodle. Just this morning, social media editor Corey Townsend threatened to assault me at the company Christmas party by yelling Cardi B lyrics in…
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Kanye West, Still Lost in This World, Goes on Tweeting Spree to Try to Get Drake to Call Him
Kanye is on a tweet rampage again. And again. And one mo’ ’gin. This time, he’s subbing Drake. Let’s do a breakdown, shall we? Get comfy. It all started with a screenshot. The screenshot is a text requesting clearance for Drake’s 2009 song, “Say What’s Real,” since it samples Kanye’s “Say You Will” beat, according…
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Trashcan Lannister Tweets About Border Wall, Gets Dunked On By 11-Year-Old Little Miss Flint
Yesterday morning, Televangelist Lice emerged from beneath the cellar of a Barbie Glam Getaway Traphouse repurposed as a trundle coconut waterbed to tweet that the billions of dollars President Trump wants to spend on the border wall would be “the BEST $5 billion taxpayers EVER spent!” Naturally, Tapeworm Leatherback’s assertion was immediately refuted, as calling…
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Living in Her Truth: Oprah Admits What She Was Really Thinking While Tasting that Tasteless Chicken
By now, we’ve all seen it (if not, you should); a now-viral vintage clip of Oprah doing her talk show host best not to spit out a guest’s unseasoned-yet-million dollar prize-winning chicken (because, white judges) on her now-defunct hit daytime show (R.I.P. Oprah show. You are still missed). The clip, filmed in 2006, was revived…
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Tumblr Announced They’re Banning Adult Content, So … Do We Still Need Tumblr?
In 2007, David Karp founded Tumblr and essentially introduced the term “microblog” to mainstream culture. Its intended purpose was for users to be able to share multiple forms of media, as well as each other’s short-form blogs. Then, one day, we all looked up and Tumblr had become the social media equivalent of PornHub. You…
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Brett Favre, Soulja Boy Tricked Into Recording Videos For White Supremacist Group
A group of celebrities… and Soulja Boy were duped into recording video messages with anti-semitic dog whistles for a hate group, under the pretense that the messages were for a veterans group. According to Buzzfeed, former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre; slightly off-center comedian Andy Dick and legendary Supermanner of hoes Soulja Boy were…
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Korryn Gaines, Color of Change and How We Know Facebook Doesn’t Care About Black People
She said the “devil” was at her door. When the Baltimore County Police Department officers arrived at the home of Korryn Gaines on Aug. 1, 2017, she knew she might be killed. Holding her phone in one hand and a shotgun in the other, Gaines figured that her only defense against being killed in front…
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Mariah Carey Posts Pic With Kaepernick—and Social Media Promptly Forgets She's Black
“One Sweet Day,” folks are going to get out of their “Emotions,” admit the real reason they’re so “Obsessed” with Colin Kaepernick and why they kneel, and recognize him as the “Hero” he’s been in making a portion of otherwise complacent NFL lovers more conscious about racism and police brutality. What can I say? I…
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