Month: July 2024

You thought the crowd was feeling you? Well, Ice Spice surely hoped so. The “Gimme A Light” rapper’s Y2K! World Tour is off to a rough start.

During Open’er Festival, fans grew concerned about Ice Spice’s wellbeing after she seemed disassociated onstage. Today (July 7) the recording artist came face-to-face with a sea of trolls at Rolling Loud Europe. As Ice Spice performed “Karma (Remix),” her collaboration with Taylor Swift, the Austrian audience began to boo.

Initial, Ice Spice seemed confused by the reaction (especially considering Swift’s global reach). But, shortly after the audience flashed a few thumbs down motions toward her, Ice Spice responded by blowing a kiss.

Users online applauded Ice Spice’s action while clowning the overwhelmingly male perpetrators.

“Men used to go war, and now they show up to Ice Spice sets and hate on a woman 1,000,000 times out of their league,” wrote one user.

“Imagine going to an Ice Spice set, then booing Taylor Swift when their collab plays. What losers,” penned another.

“TayBlessings for Ice,” chimed another.

“Love her. Men are f*cking weird,” added another.

Taylor Swift and Ice Spice’s friendship has continued to blossom since their song. They were even spotted together at Super Bowl 2024. Based on Ice Spice’s defense of Swift, they will remain strong.

(WARNING: Spoilers for the most recent All American episode will be found below.)

When Will All American Season 6, Episode 14 Come Out?

Spencer James’ dreams are coming true as All American season six comes to a close. He got drafted to the NFL and went on to not only win a Super Bowl, but win Super Bowl MVP as well. Now, his next mission is to pull off a great wedding for him and Olivia. They have the full support of The Vortex, and now it’s time to execute. We’ll see it all unfold in the next episode of All American, which arrives in a little over a day.

When Will All American Season 6, Episode 14 Come Out?

The fourteenth episode of All American season six, titled “I Do (Part 1),” will arrive on July 8. The Jes Macallan-directed and Micah Cyrus and Carrie Gutenberg-written episode will be available on Monday, 7/8 on the CW TV channel at 8pm EST/PST. The episode will later be available to stream on the CW app and website at 3 am ET/12 am PT. A synopsis for “I Do (Part 1)” can be found below:

It’s been five months since Spencer was named Super Bowl MVP and he and Olivia are now focused on one thing — pulling off the perfect wedding weekend. Jordan considers a new job offer, and his and Layla’s search for a new home takes an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Laura and Grace go head-to-head to see who can write the best speech, and Coop and Asher plan a special bachelor/bachelorette party.

You can also watch the trailer for All American season six, episode fourteen below:

New episodes of ‘All American’ are available on CW TV on Mondays at 8 pm ET/PT and on the CW app and website at 3 am ET/12 am PT.

During the 2024 BET Awards, Childish Gambino called out the organization for not acknowledging his creative prowess. Later in the show, viewers turned on him after participation in the Usher Lifetime Achievement Award tribute. Now, he is ready to make those naysayers ear their words by way of the Bando Stone And The New World soundtrack.

Yesterday (July 6), Gambino held a pop-up concert at Little Island NYC to treat fans to what he has up his musical sleeve. During the performance, Gambino was joined by Steve Lacy and Fousheé, who are both reportedly slated to appear on the album.

“Sounds like a heater,” wrote one user about the trio’s unreleased track.

“I’m obsessed with this sound omg ,” penned another.

So far, Gambino dropped “Lithonia,” but rumblings online hinted that this track isn’t even the tip of the iceberg.

According to NFR Podcast, Uproxx cover star Chlöe, Yeat, Jorja Smith, Amaarae, Flo Milli, Kamasi Washington, and Gambino’s son just a few of the folks set to make an appearance on the project.

Again, at this point, nothing has been confirmed. But clips shared from attendees seem to confirm a few of the names listed above, including Jorja Smith and Amaarae (Gambino’s upcoming tour opener).

The soundtrack’s official release date hasn’t been shared. But in the comment section of the film’s trailer on YouTube, said it would be within July.

Taylor Swift’s music has received its fair share of criticism. However, her latest album, The Tortured Poets Department, has just earned a very public praise. Throughout the body of work, Swift mentioned several musicians known for their deeply moving songwriting abilities—including Patti Smith.

Well, during Smith’s Dublin, Ireland concert on June 28, the punk icon acknowledged the name-drop. In a video captured by a concertgoer, Smith can be heard saying: “Well, I’ve a small confession to make. I am no Dylan Thomas, but I am Patti Smith.”

Although made a few minor adjustments, the speech was clearly a reference to Swift’s stanza: “I laughed in your face and said, ‘You’re not Dylan Thomas, I’m not Patti Smith / This ain’t the Chelsea Hotel / We’re modern idiots.’”

Back in April, when the album was released, it was met with mixed reviews. On the other hand, in Uproxx’s review by Josh Kurp praised the project for not taking the easy way out creatively.

Users online quickly pointed that out after the clip of Smith’s remarks were shared on X (formerly Twitter).

“Stevie nicks, Patti smith, Paul McCartney, absolute REAL legends praising and commenting on TTPD,” wrote one user.

“And they say she has no cultural impact. Lol,” penned another.

Well, it looks like Patti Smith has officially been inducted into the Secret Society of Swifties.

Paul George is making some big changes this summer, as he signed a max free agent deal with the Philadelphia 76ers that will take him back to the Eastern Conference for the first time in seven years. He’ll leave the Clippers after five relatively disappointing seasons given the expectations were to contend for a title when he and Kawhi Leonard arrived, and go to a Sixers team with the same lofty expectations but even greater pressure to achieve them.

George will have to figure out how to best complement his two new star teammates, as he slots in between Joel Embiid and Tyrese Maxey. When he does so for the first time next fall, he’ll be in a new jersey number, as his previous numbers, 13 and 24, are both retired in Philly for Wilt Chamberlain and Bobby Jones. That forced George to pick a new number, which doesn’t often happen this deep into your career, and he landed on the No. 8, explaining it was a nod to his idol growing up, Kobe Bryant (who was from Philadelphia).

George is one of many Kobe acolytes in the NBA and having already worn Bryant’s No. 24, it’s not a surprise he’d look to honor the legend by going with No. 8. It might take a bit for fans to get used to seeing George in that number, but if he can help the Sixers deliver on a title, it’ll become a very popular jersey in Philly.

There’s no time like the present. Most artists carefully craft a rollout strategy prior to dropping a project, to ensure great streaming metrics, chart placement, and more. Then there’s Sault. The British genre-merging music collective couldn’t care less about those markers.

Yesterday (July 6) the group added one more body of work to their discography (which includes Air). The album, seemingly titled, Acts Of Faith, features 32 minutes worth of music.

Just like with any other Sault release, there was a catch. The cryptic announcement post shared across their official social media pages required fans to download the .wav files directly from a private link. However, due to demand and the server’s limit, not everyone was successfully in capturing the file.

Also, the file was unnamed and a continuous play through. Now users online are piecing together the band’s past clue to take a crack at the tracklist.

“Are we going to have to do a scavenger hunt or solve a riddle to get to the treasure? I mean, I’m down. LOL,” joked one user on Instagram.

One user on X (formerly Twitter) theorized that during Sault’s secret show in December, were what made the final cut for Acts Of Faith.

Upon a closer examination of the image posted alongside the link, supporters pointed out the setup looked familiar. Several users claimed that the display was featured at Sault’s London show, which explain why Sault didn’t title the track because their closest fans already heard them live.

Notable figures in music like Questlove and Ebro Darden couldn’t hold back their excitement in the Instagram comment section.

Sault previously teased their plans for the year, but no one saw this coming.

Few condiments are as polarizing as mayonnaise. There’s seemingly no middle ground—you’re either grossed out at the mere mention of it, or you love to slather it on practically everything.

For those that fall into the latter category, it might come as no surprise that recently, mayo-loving Costco customers bonded over the woeful fact that the retailer does not offer mayo packets for their famous 1.50 hot dogs.

The conversation got so passionate that Hellmann’s Mayonnaise ended up getting involved.

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Perhaps it all started with this TikTok below, in which a Costco customer who “doesn’t even like mayo that much” but swear that the condiment on a hot dog hit different” showed themselves taking a ziploc bag of mayo from home and layering it onto the Costco dog as though frosting a cake.

Let’s just say…not everyone was on board with this.

@anabelmadrigal like not even the little pack of mayo, WHAT IS THE REASON ?! 😫😫😫 i also dont like mayo THAT much but it hits different on a hotdog >> 😫 #costco #costcofood #hotdog #mayo #humor #fyp #diy #food ♬ sad SpongeBob music – michael

“Mayo on hotdog is a disease. Get well soon,” one person wrote.

Still, many mayo lovers banded together in support of the idea.

“Finally, I found my people,” one person wrote.

Meanwhile, another said, “as a mayo lover you just opened my eyes.”

Quite a few even admitted to carrying personal mayo packets themselves.

A similar conversation blew up on the Costco subreddit, where the original post read ““I don’t understand why my Costco doesn’t have mayonnaise for the hotdogs. They’re my favorite condiment for them and no matter how many requests I do they don’t even respond.”

Funny enough, the top suggestion to solve this problem was to “Buy a giant box of single serve packets from Costco Business Center. Put a few packs in your pockets. Put the mayo on your hot dogs.”

Eventually word got to Hellmann’s, which unveiled a hilarious—though undoubtedly fake—contraption to end this grievance for good on the company’s Instagram page.

“It’s come to our attention that some of you are bringing your own mayo to hot dog spots where mayo isn’t offered,” the caption read.

“So today, we’re announcing the development of the Mini Mayo Dispenser: an innovative, miniaturized mayo delivery device designed to support mayo-on-dog lovers everywhere–especially consumers of our friends’ iconic, delicious, and beloved $1.50 hot dogs.”

Take a look at this very official looking set of blueprints below:

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And oh how the mayo fans rejoiced.

“Now 🌭 THAT 🌭 is 🌭 innovation,” one person wrote.

“Genius! 👏” commended another.

As for the folks who have read this far in an article about mayo and have been resisting the urge to vomit: we commend you for our bravery, and there’s also some interesting reasons behind that visceral reaction.

According to an article from The Takeout, one could be that the combo of colorlessness and slippery texture can remind us of certain…bodily fluids, which our “lizard brain” associated with rot and decay. That would definitely explain why some anti-mayo folk can easily handle more colorful alternatives like aioli.

Either way, as long as there are egg yolks, oil and vinegar in this world, mayo-heads will fight the good fight to keep it in its rightful place…which is everywhere.

It was the study that shook views of marriage across the country. Researchers concluded that men simply couldn’t handle the “sickness” part of their wedding vows, consistently bowing out of their marriage if their wife became sick. The results of the study were cited everywhere and you can still find them being regurgitated in hot take internet think pieces.

The paper is titled “In Sickness and in Health? Physical Illness as a Risk Factor for Marital Dissolution in Later Life,” and the findings were reported on by large publications. But it turns out the results have serious flaws causing the authors to rush to correct their mistake.

According to Retraction Watch, the first author, assistant professor at Iowa State University, Amelia Karraker “seems to be handling the case quickly and responsibly.” The beauty of peer reviewed research is that there are multiple sets of eyes to check your work, which is what led to the discovery of the paper’s flaws.

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It was her colleagues from Bowling Green State that discovered the error while trying to duplicate the findings. The numbers kept coming up short of what was reported in the original paper.

“I sent them the statistical analysis file, which documents all of the steps as to how we came to all the estimates in the paper. And they pointed out to us, to our horror, that we had miscoded the dependent variable,” Karraker tells the outlet.

The mistake had already been printed and republished on multiple media outlets, but the original writers of the paper contacted their editor to alert them of the error. While this error plays a large role in the high risk of divorce when a wife becomes ill, it doesn’t completely eliminate it. The risk does still increase but it seems to increase in one health circumstance–heart problems. Other illnesses did not seem to have the same level of divorce risk. So what happened?

Well, according to Karraker, not all of the participants finished the study. Turns out the ones that left before the study ended were accidentally coded as having gotten divorced, when that couldn’t have been determined since they were no longer participating. Karraker and her co-author got the participant information and data from a previous study conducted by University of Michigan which included data from 2,701 heterosexual marriages.

The study focused on four serious diseases: heart disease, stroke, cancer and lung disease showing an increase in divorce risk if the wife falls ill versus the husband. While Karraker’s results were flawed due to the unfortunate mistake, other studies who don’t use her results show a significant increase in divorce rates when the wife becomes seriously ill.

In the study “Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness” by Michael J. Glantz, MD et al, the authors explain, “female gender was found to be the strongest predictor of separation or divorce in each cohort.” Glantz shares that divorce rate was 11.6% for cancer patients, which is similar to the average. “There was, however, a greater than 6-fold increase in risk after diagnosis when the affected spouse was the woman (20.8% vs 2.9%; P < .001)”

Kelsey Dawn Williamson, 23, from Benton, Illinois has ordered over 50 shirts from AliExpress, an online retailer based out of Hangzhou, China. But when the Frog and Toad shirt she ordered on May 10 arrived, she “literally did not know how to react so I just took a few moments to stare at it and try to process.”

The infant-sized shirt has a picture of the iconic reptiles from the children’s book series riding old-fashioned bikes with “FUCK THE POLICE” written at the bottom.

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Williamson posted a photo of her daughter Salem in the shirt on Facebook and it quickly went viral.

The shirt that was delivered looked exactly like the one in the online store, just without the caustic N.W.A. lyric.

While it seems utterly bizarre that someone would create a shirt with “FUCK THE POLICE” written beneath a picture of Frog and Toad — a duo who’ve never been known to harbor ill will against law enforcement — there’s a good reason.

Memes featuring Frog and Toad are so popular they have their own subreddit. The shirtmaker, who probably doesn’t have a license to use Frog and Toad, must have got the photo from a Google search. The person who made the shirt was most likely Chinese and either didn’t speak English or has a very poor eye for detail.

After Williamson received the shirt, she Facetimed her husband and they screamed together. “We both just lost it, dying of laughter,” she told Buzzfeed. “All he could say was ‘Oh shit.'”

“I’ve told [Salem], ‘People really like your frog shirt!'” Williamson said. But she’s not letting her child wear the offensive shirt to preschool. “It’s going in her baby box so we can bring it up when she’s older.”

Unfortunately, the incident has been all laughs for Williamson. She’s received messages from people who’ve fat-shamed her daughter.

“People were actually messaging me just to say mean things about her,” she said. “A ton of people calling her fat, asking me what I feed her to make her so big, telling me the shirt I bought was too small.”

But Williamson has remained strong and fought back against the shamers. She edited her post to address her daughter’s weight but refuses to take it down. “SHE SEES SPECIALISTS FOR HER WEIGHT. SHE CANT HELP IT. I CANT HELP IT. MY HUSBAND CANT HELP IT. IT IS OUT OF OUR CONTROL. JUST LAUGH AT THE FUNNY SHIRT,” Williamson wrote on Facebook.

That’s right people, just laugh at the funny shirt, and stay out of people’s business.

This article originally appeared on 06.01.19

After you’re gone, people will probably forget the exact things you said to them while you were alive, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel.

Unfortunately, when people write obituaries that sum up a person’s life they’re often just a chronological list of factual details of their lives such as where they lived, where they worked, and how many children they had.

While those facts are important, they don’t really explain the type of person the deceased was or how they made people feel. An obituary for fireman William Ziegler of New Orleans, Louisiana has attracted a lot of attention for how it hilariously summed up the life of a man who was a real raconteur.

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Zeigler’s daughter, Sharah Currier, said that he used to read funny obituaries to his children, so they decided to write one that would make him laugh. “He would have loved this,” she told the Times-Picayune. “He probably would have forwarded this obituary to us.”

Zeigler began his career as a volunteer in the U.S. Navy.

William volunteered for service in the United States Navy at the ripe old age of 17 and immediately realized he didn’t much enjoy being bossed around. He only stuck it out for one war. Before his discharge, however, the government exchanged numerous ribbons and medals for various honorable acts. Upon his return to the City of New Orleans in 1971, thinking it best to keep an eye on him, government officials hired William as a fireman.

He then continued his life of service by joining the fire department.

After twenty-five years, he suddenly realized that running away from burning buildings made more sense than running toward them. He promptly retired. Looking back, William stated that there was no better group of morons and mental patients than those he had the privilege of serving with (except Bob, he never liked you, Bob).

Ziegler’s children believe that he’s in heaven with his alcoholic dog.

Following his wishes, there will not be a service, but well-wishers are encouraged to write a note of farewell on a Schaefer Light beer can and drink it in his honor. He was never one for sentiment or religiosity, but he wanted you to know that if he owes you a beer, and if you can find him in Heaven, he will gladly allow you to buy him another. He can likely be found forwarding tasteless internet jokes (check your spam folder, but don’t open these at work). Expect to find an alcoholic dog named Judge passed out at his feet.

His children end the obituary stressing the fact that he’s actually dead.

Unlike previous times, this is not a ploy to avoid creditors or old girlfriends. He assures us that he is gone. He will be greatly missed.

You can read the whole obituary at the Times-Picayune.

This article originally appeared on 8.16.16