Month: March 2023

Elon Musk is the most-followed person on Twitter, and all it took to get there was buying Twitter. As of Thursday morning, Musk has 133.088 million followers on the social media platform that he is slowly destroying. That’s slightly more than the previous most-followed account, Barack Obama, with his 133.042 million followers (although as Variety notes, these numbers are “according to the public counters operated by Twitter, which Musk owns”).

Musk would be celebrating the achievement, if he hadn’t lost his biggest fan.

Catturd, the anonymous Florida man who Rolling Stone described as the sh*tposting king of MAGA Twitter,” is fed up with some of the changes to Twitter. “Let me get this straight… I can’t scroll through my replies or home page without seeing tons of ads. So basically, advertisers get to advertise directly to my 1.6 million followers without paying me a dime. Not only that, I have to pay Twitter $11 per month who gets 100% of the advertising dollars.”

He continued, “Then, they ban my account for a day for warning the public about potential violence – and while I’m suspended and can’t use my own account, advertisers still were doing ads in my replies. Seems fair. Did I miss anything?” One of Catturd’s 1.6 million followers tagged Musk and asked for a comment. He’s yet to respond.

How will Musk respond to the glasses-wearing poop feline calling him out? By making Twitter worse, probably. “Looking into it.”

Wizkid postponed his More Love, Less Ego Tour to this fall, and at least in the world of his new “Money & Love” video, he’s using his unexpected down time to get even more in touch with his artistic side.

The three-minute visual dropped yesterday, March 29. It begins with Wizkid posted up on a vintage car, admiring a beautiful woman. Once the beat drops, Wizkid appears shirtless and laser-focused on painting. Underneath all of his paints is a magazine titled The People’s News with the headline, “Frustration, credibility doubts as election results trickle days after.”

As Wizkid continues to paint his canvas, more women have arrived around the cars to dance along to the infectious, simmering “Money & Love” soundscape. The cars multiply, day turns to night, and a luxurious night ensues at a pristine mansion. The end of the video reveals that Wizkid has painted a nude woman.

“Money & Love” is the opening track on Wizkid’s More Love, Less Ego album from last November.

Wizkid’s fifth album More Love, Less Ego is just as much of a worldwide message as it is another impressive addition to his discography. Through its 13 songs, Wizkid sought to showcase the many sides of love and how beautiful it can be at its peak,” Uproxx wrote while naming the album among 2022’s Best Afrobeats Albums, also noting, “What makes More Love, Less Ego more impressive is that the calls for love are indirect. Wizkid’s own endeavors in romance are meant to inspire. We watch from afar and desire for something similar in our day-to-day lives. Now, that’s the magic of Wizkid.”

Watch that sentiment flourish in the “Money & Love” video above.

Yesterday, rumors surfaced of burgeoning Bronx rap superstar Ice Spice being robbed after a video of a man showing off a necklace with what appeared to be the rapper’s “Queen” pendant emerged on TikTok. As users in the comments flamed the man for allegedly robbing a 23-year-old woman (something he vehemently denied in the comments himself), a source close to Ice Spice reached out to TMZ to shut down the rumor, pointing out that Ice Spice doesn’t even own a “Queen” piece — a piece which is instead associated with Nicki Minaj.

It appears that the TikTok video was the result of some trolling by a TikTok user hoping to generate some buzz — and finding out that internet fame ain’t all it’s cracked up to be. Even though it would seem pretty obvious that the chain the man in the video is holding up does not belong to Ice Spice — again, she’s never been seen wearing an iced-out “Queen” pendant — fans are still giving those gentlemen a hard time… although the misunderstanding has resulted in some truly hilarious responses. Shout-out to the dude who posted the legendary Old Boy hallway fight scene.

So, no, Ice Spice didn’t get her chain stolen. If nothing else, though, this incident proves that the Spice Cabinet is very deep and packed with loyal troopers who’ll stop at nothing to protect the “Munch” rapper — a promising sign for her rising career.

Monday, March 27, marked the latest in what has become a sickeningly commonplace epidemic in the United States. There was a mass shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville carried out by a 28-year-old whose name won’t be typed here, killing three staff members (Katherine Koonce, 60, Cynthia Peak, 61, and Mike Hill, 61) and three nine-year-old students (Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney).

On Wednesday, March 29, a vigil was held to mourn the victims. Dr. Jill Biden, the First Lady Of The United States, was in attendance. Sheryl Crow performed her 1993 single “I Shall Believe” at the piano before Margot Price gave an a capella rendition of “Tears Of Rage.” The crowd remained silent until Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor led a banjo sing-along to The Carter Family’s “Will The Circle Be Unbroken.”

ABC News livestreamed the full vigil:

Crow, Price, and Secor have been vocal on their respective social media accounts since the shooting.

Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn’s tweeted that her office “is in contact with federal, state, & local officials, & we stand ready to assist,” to which Crow responded, “If you are ready to assist, please pass sensible gun laws so that the children of Tennessee and America at large might attend school without risk of being gunned down.”

Similarly, Price encouraged her followers to attend a rally scheduled today, March 30, at the Tennessee State Capitol “to advocate for an end to gun violence & stronger gun laws in [Tennessee].” She also tweeted at Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, “Prayers aren’t enough. Grow a pair.”

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“Neither of them can do a Baltimore accent.” -Leah Carroll.

Writer and Pod Yourself favorite, Leah Carroll returns to The Wire rewatch podcast Pod Yourself The Wire bearing gifts, to talk to Matt and Vince about The Wire season two, episode 11, “Bad Dreams.”

In an act of preparation that would put the producer of this podcast to shame, Leah dug up a clip from a Dominic West and Micheal K. Williams’ audio commentary on episode six of this season, in which you hear, in rapid succession, Dominic West complimenting his own looks, and then the two of them reverently assessing Nicky’s girlfriends “beautiful knockers.” The death of the DVD commentary is the worst thing to happen to media in our lifetime.

This episode of The Wire, if you can even believe it, is a bit of a bummer. Frank is walking directly into his almost certain death to try to help his dumbass son Ziggy out of another mess. Omar is hoodwinked by Stringer Bell and, oopsie, shoots the wrong guy. Meanwhile, Daniels realizes that Landsmen bungled his Sobotka connection. It’s almost like these guys don’t really care about solving problems and just want to not get yelled at, cash a check, and hang out at a bar with no wives.

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After starring in an ad for Crypto.com back in October 2021, Matt Damon quickly became the center of intense ridicule, and the situation only got worse following the crypto crash in mid-2022. When everything was said and done, Damon got ripped apart on social media, and even South Park, for a solid 6-8 months. It was not his best work.

However, Damon has finally opened up about why he agreed to star in the heavily mocked ad, which obviously, did not look great after a tumultuous 2022 that saw both the crypto market crash and the FTX collapse. According to the Air star, his intentions were entirely charitable.

“We had a down year in Water.org and I did that commercial in an attempt to raise money for Water.org,” Damon told the Associated Press. The actor claims he used every penny from the crypto spot to finance the non-profit clean water project he co-founded with philanthropist Gary White. On top of that, Crypto.com also tossed in an extra donation to the charitable org.

Via Yahoo! Finance:

“I gave my whole salary to water.org because we were down, and Crypto.com heard about that, and they gave $1 million to water.org completely on their own,” he said. “I definitely have a lot of gratitude to them for what they did for our foundation.”

As for why Damon waited until now to make that revelation is anybody’s guess, but it does sound like a solid reason to make one of the most embarrassing commercials of his career.

(Via Yahoo! Finance)

WrestleMania 39 will take place on Saturday, April 1, and Sunday, April 2, from SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. The two-night event is the biggest weekend of the year for the promotion, and as such, the card is absolutely loaded.

On Thursday’s edition of First Take, we learned which matches will take place on which nights. Unsurprisingly, Night 2 will feature men’s Royal Rumble winner Cody Rhodes taking on Undisputed WWE Champion Roman Reigns, while things are a little less clear on Night 1. While the long-standing rumor was that Smackdown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair would defend her title against Rhea Ripley, who won the women’s Royal Rumble, Stephen A. Smith indicated that WWE would instead close the evening with a United States Championship match between Austin Theory and John Cena.

To kick off WrestleMania on Saturday, here’s the full lineup for Day 1:

• United States championship match: Austin Theory vs. John Cena
• Smackdown Women’s Championship match: Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley
• Undisputed WWE Tag Team Championship match: The Usos vs. Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens
• Becky Lynch, Lita, and Trish Stratus vs. Damage CTRL
• Seth “Freakin” Rollins vs. Logan Paul
• Rey Mysterio vs. Dominik Mysterio
• Braun Strowman and Ricochet vs. The Street Profits vs. Alpha Academy vs. The Viking Raiders

Day 2 of WrestleMania will feature:

• Undisputed WWE Universal Championship match: Roman Reigns vs. “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes
• Raw Women’s Championship match: Bianca Belair vs. Asuka
• Intercontinental Championship match: Gunther vs. Drew McIntyre vs. Sheamus
• Hell in a Cell match: Edge vs. Finn Bàlor
• Brock Lesnar vs. Omos
• Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez vs. Natalya and Shotzi vs. Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler vs. Sonya Deville and Chelsea Green

Miley Cyrus just shared her new album Endless Summer Vacation following the viral success of the infectious lead single “Flowers.” However, not everything is rosy.

The other week, news broke that the board of an elementary school in Wisconsin banned Cyrus’s “Rainbowland,” her collaboration with Dolly Parton, to be performed during the annual spring concert.

They claimed it “could be perceived as controversial” because of lines such as, “Where we’re free to be exactly who we are / Let’s all dig down deep inside / Brush the judgment and fear aside / Make wrong things right / And end the fight.” This censorship sparked a lot of conversation on social media, though neither singers responded.

However, now Cyrus’s Happy Hippie Foundation made posts on social media addressing to the situation by making a generous donation to Pride and Less Prejudice, an organization that “provides free LGBTQ age-appropriate books to classrooms from preschool to third grade,” according to their Twitter.

“To the inspiring first grade students at Heyer Elementary, keep being YOU. We believe in our Happy Hippie heart that you’ll be the ones to brush the judgment and fear aside and make all of us more understanding and accepting,” the tweet read. It continued: “In honor & celebration of your BRIGHT future Happy Hippie is making a donation to @lessprejudice to help make classrooms more inclusive!”

Kanye West is more synonymous with antisemitism than music or anything else since his dangerous antisemitic Twitter rant and even more inexcusable sit-down with Alex Jones late last year.

Last weekend, West claimed on Instagram, “Watching Jonah Hill in 21 Jump Street made me like Jewish people again.” He continued, “No one should take anger against one or two individuals and transform that into hatred towards millions of innocent people. No Christian can be labeled antisemite knowing Jesus is Jew. Thank you Jonah Hill I love you.”

Cue Seth Rogen’s famous laughter.

Rogen was promoting the forthcoming The Super Mario Bros. Movie with CinemaBlend when he was asked about Hill and 21 Jump Street magically making West “like Jewish people again,” which, to be clear, is not a viable approach against antisemitism. Rogen roared his distinctive laugh before saying, “You know what? [Hill] can have it. Happy to be left out of that one. But you know what? Good! Cured!”

Rogen added, “They should send that movie around the world — let everyone watch it! I wrote some jokes for that movie, so I feel slight ownership.”

Last December, Rogen poked fun at Kim Kardashian after she didn’t show at The Hollywood Reporter‘s Women In Entertainment breakfast (as noted by Page Six).

“Are we going to talk about how Kim Kardashian didn’t show up? Is that going to happen?” Rogen said at the podium. “I’ll say this … I have seen every episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. I know she is not doing something more important than this. I’ve seen 100,000 hours of her. She’s never done something more important than this. This would be the climax of the show.”

And Rogen subtly snuck in a perceived jab at West, “She’s probably dealing with a lot right now.”

Kardashian and West reportedly finalized their divorce last November, per People, and Kardashian has been open about how “f*cking hard” it is to co-parent with West.