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A situation between neighbors that played out on TikTok up an important question: Should one neighbor have to remove a holiday decoration because it makes someone else on the block uncomfortable? However, before it became a conflict, one neighbor settled the situation with kindness.

Salena Webb of Duncan, South Carolina, a confessed “Halloween lover,” proved it this year by putting her decorations up in September. Webb is the mother of 4, with another on the way, who shares gardening tips on TikTok.

Webb did an excellent job decking out her lawn for the spooky season. Her decorations included a giant spider web, some tombstones and two skeletons carrying a coffin. Webb loved her decorations but they caused a bit of a problem with her neighbor across the street.

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The adult son of an elderly Russian couple came to her door with a peculiar request.

@thatsnorthsense

My family knows i loveeee Halloween and my decorations took me awhile to make and put up. I had just purshased the skeleton carrying the casket to go along with my graveyard to really set my halloween decor off this year🥴 I was a little sad at first but i thought about the bigger picture. Me removing my casket isnt hurting me at all but it may ease and bring my neighbor a little bit of peace as he adjusts to this news. Kindness is free and compassion goes a long way. Now what to replace it with🥴😩#Thatsnorthsense #dailyvlog #compassionforothers #halloween2023 #loveyourneighborasyourself

“He starts to tell me that his father was diagnosed with lung cancer,” she said the couple’s son said. “And then he started to talk about my Halloween decorations. I’m like, ‘What do my decorations really have to do with this?'” she told Business Insider.

But then, suddenly, it all made sense. “This guy is dealing with mortality,” Webb said, adding that the man had specifically noted that the casket made him uncomfortable. In a follow-up video, Webb pointed out that the elderly man often sits in his garage, directly across the street from the coffin decoration.

So, Webb decided to remove the casket from her lawn.

“I do get it, you know, and I understand it is like literally right across the street, and he can look right into it, so I get it,” she admitted in a follow-up video. So, this year, she moved the coffin into her back yard.

@thatsnorthsense

Replying to @JennAngel 🪱🌈🪐☁️🪅💠 maybe some can now understand why they were a little touchy about it and at night theres fog that i have come out from it🤣 so i get it.. #Thatsnorthsense #dailyvlog #compassionforothers #halloween2023 #loveyourneighborasyourself

“I was a little sad at first but I thought about the bigger picture,” Webb captioned her TikTok video. “Me removing my casket isn’t hurting me at all, but it may ease and bring my neighbor a little bit of peace as he adjusts to this news. Kindness is free and compassion goes a long way.”

There are many different ways in which that situation could have played out. The neighbor could have been aggressive when asking Webb to remove the decorations, but he wasn’t. Webb could have gotten defensive and told the neighbor that her decorations were none of his business. But she didn’t.

One commenter perfectly summed up the situation. “His explanation was so heartfelt. It’s so kind of you to respond in the same way,” CocoJoJo30 wrote.

After the video went viral, Webb went across the street and gave her ailing neighbor a card and some balloons to tell him that removing the casket wasn’t a problem. As for the skeletons, they’re still on the lawn, but now they are playing a friendly game of badminton instead of carrying a coffin.

A situation between neighbors that played out on TikTok up an important question: Should one neighbor have to remove a holiday decoration because it makes someone else on the block uncomfortable? However, before it became a conflict, one neighbor settled the situation with kindness.

Salena Webb of Duncan, South Carolina, a confessed “Halloween lover,” proved it this year by putting her decorations up in September. Webb is the mother of 4, with another on the way, who shares gardening tips on TikTok.

Webb did an excellent job decking out her lawn for the spooky season. Her decorations included a giant spider web, some tombstones and two skeletons carrying a coffin. Webb loved her decorations but they caused a bit of a problem with her neighbor across the street.

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The adult son of an elderly Russian couple came to her door with a peculiar request.

@thatsnorthsense

My family knows i loveeee Halloween and my decorations took me awhile to make and put up. I had just purshased the skeleton carrying the casket to go along with my graveyard to really set my halloween decor off this year🥴 I was a little sad at first but i thought about the bigger picture. Me removing my casket isnt hurting me at all but it may ease and bring my neighbor a little bit of peace as he adjusts to this news. Kindness is free and compassion goes a long way. Now what to replace it with🥴😩#Thatsnorthsense #dailyvlog #compassionforothers #halloween2023 #loveyourneighborasyourself

“He starts to tell me that his father was diagnosed with lung cancer,” she said the couple’s son said. “And then he started to talk about my Halloween decorations. I’m like, ‘What do my decorations really have to do with this?'” she told Business Insider.

But then, suddenly, it all made sense. “This guy is dealing with mortality,” Webb said, adding that the man had specifically noted that the casket made him uncomfortable. In a follow-up video, Webb pointed out that the elderly man often sits in his garage, directly across the street from the coffin decoration.

So, Webb decided to remove the casket from her lawn.

“I do get it, you know, and I understand it is like literally right across the street, and he can look right into it, so I get it,” she admitted in a follow-up video. So, this year, she moved the coffin into her back yard.

@thatsnorthsense

Replying to @JennAngel 🪱🌈🪐☁️🪅💠 maybe some can now understand why they were a little touchy about it and at night theres fog that i have come out from it🤣 so i get it.. #Thatsnorthsense #dailyvlog #compassionforothers #halloween2023 #loveyourneighborasyourself

“I was a little sad at first but I thought about the bigger picture,” Webb captioned her TikTok video. “Me removing my casket isn’t hurting me at all, but it may ease and bring my neighbor a little bit of peace as he adjusts to this news. Kindness is free and compassion goes a long way.”

There are many different ways in which that situation could have played out. The neighbor could have been aggressive when asking Webb to remove the decorations, but he wasn’t. Webb could have gotten defensive and told the neighbor that her decorations were none of his business. But she didn’t.

One commenter perfectly summed up the situation. “His explanation was so heartfelt. It’s so kind of you to respond in the same way,” CocoJoJo30 wrote.

After the video went viral, Webb went across the street and gave her ailing neighbor a card and some balloons to tell him that removing the casket wasn’t a problem. As for the skeletons, they’re still on the lawn, but now they are playing a friendly game of badminton instead of carrying a coffin.

As people worry about whether artificial intelligence (AI) will replace people’s jobs, it appears at least one job is safe—the person who puts the closed captioning text on the jumbotron at sports events.

A video shared on X (formerly Twitter) shows what happened at a Portland Trail Blazers basketball game when some kind of automated closed captioning tool misheard the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” You know, our country’s national anthem that pretty much every American knows by heart? And the captions it came up with were hilariously entertaining.

A guy named Brian (@brianonhere) shared the video with the text, “bro im crying lmao. of all the songs to use AI captions on.” As the jumbotron captions came on the screen while the national anthem was being sung, this is what people in the crowd saw:

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During, “O’er the ramparts we watched,” the captions relayed the previous words in the song (“…broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight”) as, “STARS. PASS THROUGH THE PAYROLL. BUS FIRE.”

Then it continued, changing “O’er the ramparts we watched…” to: “OR THE RIGHT. HART TWEET WOW! TOUCHED WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING ME. IT’S RIGHT. THE BOMBS. FIRST EVENING. GAVE PROOF. THROUGH THE NIGHT. RIGHT THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE.”

You might think it was getting better, but oh no, we’re not done yet. Literally.

“OH SAY. AIN’T DONE. GUYS HAD STARTED. SUSPECT ANGLE. MADHU.” (That’s not even a word!) “LAY-UP AND, UH, THE FRIEND.”

Unfortunately, we don’t know how the caption interpreted the final line, “and the home of the brave,” but we probably don’t want to know.

Watch:

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People on the r/ripcity subreddit for fans of the Portland Trail Blazers shared their experiencing witnessing the closed caption fail:

“Captions were great tonight.”

“I never laughed so hard during the national anthem. That sh-t was bonkers.”

“That had to be on purpose, right? The entire section I was in was busting up reading them. Either it was on purpose by some funny intern or we have nothing to worry about with A.I. taking over any jobs at the Rose Garden.”

Seriously, it’s not likely the machines are going to take over any time soon if they can’t even get the national anthem lyrics right. They do provide for some fabulous entertainment in the meantime, though.

Thankfully, for the deaf people who rely on closed captioning to know what’s going on, the song is well known enough to recognize that the words on the screen were a total tech fail. Bring back the human typing in the words, folks! Some things machines just aren’t meant to do—at least not yet.

As people worry about whether artificial intelligence (AI) will replace people’s jobs, it appears at least one job is safe—the person who puts the closed captioning text on the jumbotron at sports events.

A video shared on X (formerly Twitter) shows what happened at a Portland Trail Blazers basketball game when some kind of automated closed captioning tool misheard the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” You know, our country’s national anthem that pretty much every American knows by heart? And the captions it came up with were hilariously entertaining.

A guy named Brian (@brianonhere) shared the video with the text, “bro im crying lmao. of all the songs to use AI captions on.” As the jumbotron captions came on the screen while the national anthem was being sung, this is what people in the crowd saw:

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During, “O’er the ramparts we watched,” the captions relayed the previous words in the song (“…broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight”) as, “STARS. PASS THROUGH THE PAYROLL. BUS FIRE.”

Then it continued, changing “O’er the ramparts we watched…” to: “OR THE RIGHT. HART TWEET WOW! TOUCHED WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING ME. IT’S RIGHT. THE BOMBS. FIRST EVENING. GAVE PROOF. THROUGH THE NIGHT. RIGHT THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE.”

You might think it was getting better, but oh no, we’re not done yet. Literally.

“OH SAY. AIN’T DONE. GUYS HAD STARTED. SUSPECT ANGLE. MADHU.” (That’s not even a word!) “LAY-UP AND, UH, THE FRIEND.”

Unfortunately, we don’t know how the caption interpreted the final line, “and the home of the brave,” but we probably don’t want to know.

Watch:

— (@)

People on the r/ripcity subreddit for fans of the Portland Trail Blazers shared their experiencing witnessing the closed caption fail:

“Captions were great tonight.”

“I never laughed so hard during the national anthem. That sh-t was bonkers.”

“That had to be on purpose, right? The entire section I was in was busting up reading them. Either it was on purpose by some funny intern or we have nothing to worry about with A.I. taking over any jobs at the Rose Garden.”

Seriously, it’s not likely the machines are going to take over any time soon if they can’t even get the national anthem lyrics right. They do provide for some fabulous entertainment in the meantime, though.

Thankfully, for the deaf people who rely on closed captioning to know what’s going on, the song is well known enough to recognize that the words on the screen were a total tech fail. Bring back the human typing in the words, folks! Some things machines just aren’t meant to do—at least not yet.

At this point in time we’re all pretty familiar with celebrity public apologies. Some big name makes a misstep, people ensure the celebrity sees their outrage and within a few days there’s a public apology that feels sincere…sort of.

Then there are those that clearly either didn’t listen to their PR people or decided to side step them. Those particular PR-less apologies feel disastrous and typically makes things much worse.

The truth of the matter is, people generally aren’t taught how to apologize appropriately. Sure as little kids our grown-ups would say things like, “tell your brother you’re sorry,” sometimes guiding us to name what we are sorry for but that’s about it. As you age your infractions evolve from apologizing for hitting your sibling with a toy to something more egregious like accidentally offending an entire community.

But with social media making viral celebrities every day, regular people are given the same opportunity to need to apologize publicly – minus the PR team. That’s where Molly McPherson steps in.

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Nothing about issuing a public apology sounds in any way delightful. It sounds terrifying, nausea inducing and honestly a bit humiliating to have messed up in such a public way that calls for public atonement. Since most regular folks on social media don’t have PR people whispering in their ear, McPherson uses the recent public apology of an influencer to breakdown where they went wrong and how you should handle it. The video should probably be saved on every influencers phone, sort of like a “break in case of emergency” type of thing.

Lunden and Olivia who had been deemed #RelationshipGoals by their social media followers recently got into hot water after Lunden’s old tweets surfaced showing frequent use of a racial slur. The firestorm swirled while they were on their honeymoon leaving them a PR disaster to return to. McPherson had a lot to say about what it’s like to be in the room with the person needing to apologize before diving into the apology video the duo released.

“There’s going to be a lot of denial and a lot of anger.” McPherson says before pointing to Olivia’s face on a green screen behind her. “This face, that’s the face of anger. They’re angry and they should be because someone curiously timed the drop on Reddit, those tweets, to hit the algorithm just as they were headed off to their honeymoon.”

She goes on to explain that in many cases, the people she’s working with either know who leaked the information or have a good idea of who leaked it. This is likely why there seems to be a disconnect between visible emotions and what’s being said.

@mollybmcpherson

How to Craft a Social Media Apology: Lessons from Lunden + Olivia. Ever wonder how to gracefully deliver an online apology? A brief masterclass breaking down the do’s and dont’s of crafting an apology that works. Mistakes happen, but knowing how to correct them helps with the bounce back. #lundenandolivia #lundenstallings #tweets #crisiscommunication #prlady #pr #prcrisis #socialmedia #fyp #socialmediacrisis #influencer #greenscreen #masterclass

“It’s not just understanding what you’re going through but also understanding what the aggrieved parties are going through,” McPherson states.

The purpose of understanding these initial parts of the apology process and implementing them is to set yourself up to regain trust later. McPherson then goes further in breaking down Lunden’s apology step-by-step and providing further expert feedback on what to do differently. The entire video is eye opening on the behind the scenes dissection of the “perfect apology.”

At this point in time we’re all pretty familiar with celebrity public apologies. Some big name makes a misstep, people ensure the celebrity sees their outrage and within a few days there’s a public apology that feels sincere…sort of.

Then there are those that clearly either didn’t listen to their PR people or decided to side step them. Those particular PR-less apologies feel disastrous and typically makes things much worse.

The truth of the matter is, people generally aren’t taught how to apologize appropriately. Sure as little kids our grown-ups would say things like, “tell your brother you’re sorry,” sometimes guiding us to name what we are sorry for but that’s about it. As you age your infractions evolve from apologizing for hitting your sibling with a toy to something more egregious like accidentally offending an entire community.

But with social media making viral celebrities every day, regular people are given the same opportunity to need to apologize publicly – minus the PR team. That’s where Molly McPherson steps in.

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Nothing about issuing a public apology sounds in any way delightful. It sounds terrifying, nausea inducing and honestly a bit humiliating to have messed up in such a public way that calls for public atonement. Since most regular folks on social media don’t have PR people whispering in their ear, McPherson uses the recent public apology of an influencer to breakdown where they went wrong and how you should handle it. The video should probably be saved on every influencers phone, sort of like a “break in case of emergency” type of thing.

Lunden and Olivia who had been deemed #RelationshipGoals by their social media followers recently got into hot water after Lunden’s old tweets surfaced showing frequent use of a racial slur. The firestorm swirled while they were on their honeymoon leaving them a PR disaster to return to. McPherson had a lot to say about what it’s like to be in the room with the person needing to apologize before diving into the apology video the duo released.

“There’s going to be a lot of denial and a lot of anger.” McPherson says before pointing to Olivia’s face on a green screen behind her. “This face, that’s the face of anger. They’re angry and they should be because someone curiously timed the drop on Reddit, those tweets, to hit the algorithm just as they were headed off to their honeymoon.”

She goes on to explain that in many cases, the people she’s working with either know who leaked the information or have a good idea of who leaked it. This is likely why there seems to be a disconnect between visible emotions and what’s being said.

@mollybmcpherson

How to Craft a Social Media Apology: Lessons from Lunden + Olivia. Ever wonder how to gracefully deliver an online apology? A brief masterclass breaking down the do’s and dont’s of crafting an apology that works. Mistakes happen, but knowing how to correct them helps with the bounce back. #lundenandolivia #lundenstallings #tweets #crisiscommunication #prlady #pr #prcrisis #socialmedia #fyp #socialmediacrisis #influencer #greenscreen #masterclass

“It’s not just understanding what you’re going through but also understanding what the aggrieved parties are going through,” McPherson states.

The purpose of understanding these initial parts of the apology process and implementing them is to set yourself up to regain trust later. McPherson then goes further in breaking down Lunden’s apology step-by-step and providing further expert feedback on what to do differently. The entire video is eye opening on the behind the scenes dissection of the “perfect apology.”

Drake has a storied history of beef with the Grammys. When accepting the Best Rap Song award in 2019, he downplayed its importance in his speech. Later, he withdrew his 2022 nominations and didn’t submit any music for 2023 either (although he still managed to get a win). Now, after not submitting his previous two albums for Grammys consideration, it looks like Drake is potentially ending his beef with the Recording Academy.

As The Hollywood Reporter reports, “a source close to the situation” says Drake and 21 Savage’s Her Loss was submitted for Album Of The Year and Best Rap Album, while songs like “Rich Flex” and “Spin Bout U” were submitted for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Melodic Rap Performance.

THR added a note worth considering, though: “At the Grammys, Academy members involved in albums or songs — including songwriters, producers, and engineers — can submit material they worked on for awards. For example, a producer or engineer who worked on most of Her Loss, who is a member of the Academy, could submit the project for album of the year, or a songwriter who co-wrote ‘Rich Flex’ could submit it for Song Of The Year and Best Rap Song.”

So, it’s possible Drake didn’t submit the album himself or personally approve its submission. Another possibility is that he put his Grammys beef aside to not prevent 21 Savage from being nominated. Neither Drake, 21 Savage, nor the Recording Academy responded to THR‘s request for comment.

Whether you want it or not, it’s time to face the facts: this Wonka movie is really happening. A lot of us were in denial and just went along with it for a while before the daunting realization settled in that this movie is actually done and they didn’t just quit when those photos of Timothee Chalamet prancing around on set were released nearly two years ago. It’s actually a full-length film and not a weird Super Bowl ad. I know! We were all thinking it.

Wonka will make its grand debut in December, and today another trailer was released, this time highlighting what will no doubt be the best part of the film: Hugh Grant as a “lofty” Oompa Loompa sidekick.

The movie will show the humble beginnings of Wonka and how the quirky chocolatier made a name for himself and his famous treats, while also making some enemies along the way. You know, like the guy who would pop up out of nowhere and legitimately ruin your childhood.

Chalamet stars as Willy alongside Keegan-Michael Key, Calah Lane, Matt Lucas, Sally Hawkins, Olivia Colman, and Rowan Atkinson (literally Mr. Bean, for those of you who are familiar). The musical is from Paul King, the King who gave the world Paddington, so there has to be some real heart here.

Wonka will prance into theaters and give you cavities on December 15th. Check out the trailer above.

(Trigger Warning: Discussion of sexual assault will be found below.)

There are toxic relationships of many varieties. Then there’s the relationship at the heart of Netflix’s Fair Play, which feels cartoonish and amped-up at times, but that’s to be expected when the couple happens to live in a heightened reality of cutthroat hedge funding. Let’s just say that there are layers, which at first beckon towards fans of romantic thrillers. Yet what transpires, ultimately, is anything but romantic, and both Phoebe Dynevor (Bridgerton) and Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear) give it their all while troubling motives unfold throughout this film that debuted at Sundance.

First-time director Chloe Domont also wrote the screenplay, which she described as an exorcism of sorts. On that note, she drew from the experience of “specifically dating men who I felt were threatened by either my ambition or any little bits of accomplishments.” That’s exactly what goes down throughout the film, which follows Emily (Dynevor) and Luke (Ehrenreich), who are engaged in a romantic relationship (and they literally become engaged to marry) that is prohibited due to policies at their mutual employer. Soon enough, we learn that Emily is better at the job than Luke, and when she receives a promotion (which Luke believed that he was going to receive), this does not go over well despite his initially feigned reaction.

This leads to the twisting of already twisted relationship power dynamics, which is exactly what Emily does not need when it’s been difficult to succeed in a male-dominated workplace. The relationship rapidly begins to deteriorate once she is promoted, and eventually, the passive aggression turns to real aggression. Luke cannot handle that Emily would be more powerful than him at work, and he claims his power over her in a violent way. That includes a scene — at their surprise engagement party — where Luke rapes Emily, but before that happened, he attempted to sabotage her career by revealing their relationship to the boss.

In the end, Emily manages to turn the situation around in a bit of “fair play” at work, but more importantly, she deals with him on a personal level. He later surfaces in their apartment, where he tells her about his new, better job (which is far away), as though he’s simply moving onto better pastures. Of course, Emily is no longer “in it” and simply wants him to admit what he did to her and to cry, but his adherence to toxic masculinity just won’t let him go there. She slashes his arm with a knife, and he eventually relents with an apology and admission of rape. He also admits to being a monster, which is what she needed to hear. And now… closure.

Fair Play is currently streaming on Netflix.

Latto and Sexyy Red recently remixed Young Nudy’s “Peaches & Eggplants,” and Latto just aligned with food-related subject matter in a much more literal sense. On Thursday, October 12, Latto and Christina Aguilera joined forces for a Just Eat ad that must have had an extraordinary budget.

In an Instagram Reel posted by Latto and Just Eat, a UK-based online food delivery brand, Latto and Aguilera are swimming in Victorian-esque gowns and icy jewels while singing in a mansion that could also easily pass for a museum. Latto raps in her always-confident flow, which is complemented by Aguilera’s bonkers operatic range.

“Did somebody say just eat?” Latto spits. “Oh, you thought it was just burgers and fries? / They got more flavors than you tasted or you heard in your life / Ooh, this is what the app do / It ain’t only fast food / Switchin’ styles like opera to rap, too / Yummy!”

Latto continues to impressively make Just Eat’s expansion into grocery delivery sound like any of her past hard bars about much more compelling things and inserts her playful lyricism with lines like “I’m a bad girl but my takeout badder / What you mean, dude? I could cop a taco platter.” To top it off, Aguilera’s final falsetto shatters a chandelier. In other words, money well spent by Just Eat.

Watch the Reels below.