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Pretty Hurts: The Insidious Side of Insta-Beauty
It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Self-proclaimed “makeup enthusiast” and Instagram beauty Victoria Katei (@vicxkat) learned this the hard way when she was brave enough to get real with her over-50,000 followers, showing herself with and without makeup. The comments weren’t universally kind—not by a long shot. Commenters accused Victoria of “catfishing”…
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Cam Newton May Have Written an Inspirational Note on Instagram, but I Can’t Read It Because He Types the Way Lil Yachty Raps
I want to give Cam Newton the benefit of the doubt and assume that his Instagram post, which includes his college mug shot photo, is a treatise about the youth of today learning from their mistakes. I want to assume that the IG post is about the trials that LiAngelo Ball is facing from his…
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Does Kevin Durant Have a Secret Clapback Instagram Account?
We all have that one friend who just can’t let shit go. You know the one I’m talking about. The homeboy who thinks someone stepping on his shoe is a plot by his rivals to ruin his new Jordans. The homegirl who thinks the waiter has a vendetta against her because one of her mozzarella…
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Are You a Phone-Charger ‘Borrower’? Stop That Shit
There is a war going on outside from which no man is safe. Sure, you can run, but you can’t hide forever. It’s tearing families apart, and there’s no end in sight. It’s a war predicated upon the most important of household fixtures: the phone charger. My refrigerator is important. But as long as my…
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Steven Mnuchin’s Wife Gets Called Out for Flossin’ on the ’Gram and Has the Whitest Response Ever
Actress Louise Linton, wife of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, got called out for being extra for the ’gram after she hashtagged her Valentino shoes and her Hermès scarf in a photo of herself and her deplorable stepping off Air Force One. And, like most white women spoiled and privileged, she took the opportunity to launch…
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Kanye West Gifts Paralyzed Fan With a Pair of Yeezys and a Handwritten Note
Kanye West made a fan pretty happy when he gave him a pair of Yeezy Boost 350 V2s. Tyler Wesley, who was paralyzed after an accident caused him to sustain a vertebrae break, proudly displayed West’s gift to him on Instagram. “Tyler, You are an inspiration you show the world anything is possible thank you…
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