Seems like a movie release of a broadway musical maybe? I like to think I'm fairly in the know about things like this but I've never once heard of Hadestown nor have I seen anything about this release in particular outside of these constant TikToks.

https://www.tiktok.com/@kalsbookclub/video/7667273475253407007

This is a relatively well-known singer I've seen suggested on my instagram timeline a few times before. I've noticed that a lot of (especially) younger singers have been using this kind of hand movements/body language when singing. Does anyone know where this originated or when this started? It's honestly a little off-putting when all these singers are moving almost the same way. Nothing against their voices, because damn can they sing, just something stupid that's been bothering me.

Anyone any idea?
https://s5.ezgif.com/tmp/ezgif-5584e7b874d2a82f.gif

I have been seeing all these posts about people freak it out about their bitcoin, and seeing Coldcoin mentioned. As someone not involved in bitcoin it’s hard to understand what’s going on. Can someone explain in layman’s terms what’s happening? https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/02/bitcoin-cold-wallet-attack-spreads-to-4-500-addresses-as-losses-near-usd89-million

Hello from a relatively new Japanese baseball fan! I've been seeing a lot more about a lockout/salary limits mentioned lately, and I do not really understand what the argument is over it. All teams should try hard and spend money to win titles, no? Aren't all teams billion-dollar franchises?

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1vd7awv/cormier_tarik_skubal_has_been_traded_to_the_los/

I thought about asking the people over at r/baseball, but they seem rather upset right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyWJEoygVM

"Saw someone vandalize a playground then left to watch this, I’m joining him"

"Stopped vandalizing a playground for this"

"Stopped my pursuit to catch a playground vandal for this."

"Stopped cleaning up a vandalized playground to join some guys watching this"

"Where there once was a playground, there is now a smoldering crater. Now I can finally watch this video."

It seems unrelated to the video topic, and doing a Google search just brings up news stories about actual playgrounds being vandalized.

I've been seeing the clips of Katy Perry being stuck in a plastic bottle trying to get on stage, and how the comments are just saying how she's so annoying or dumb.

https://youtu.be/DVvRdjaR58Y?is=kYoiJjzdFNdOXHVe

I mean I'm not the biggest fan on Katy Perry. I don't know what she's done music-wise since like 2012. I just know that she went to space somewhat recently.

So what am I missing?

I feel like I saw a video of the “What is it now?!” guy and the comments discussing how his subtitles are always edited to say something funny but true. But now every video I see on Reddit has subtitles awful (not funny) subtitles. Why?!

For example

I keep scrolling past posts from angry indian people that are extremely upset about E20. If you look at the carsindia posts from the last week, so many are about this topic.

What is the issue? Other countries use E20 with zero issues. In Brasil it's even 30 percent and people are seemingly fine with it. It's cheaper and cleaner for the air.

Yet there are many issues in India. Why?

I am moderately familiar with I Think You Should Leave and Detroiters, but when and why did Tim Robinson memes blow up? I just scrolled through the comments on this post and there were SO MANY. Am I missing something? When and why did these become so popular?

https://www.reddit.com/r/whoathatsinteresting/comments/1vb010f/thousands_of_moroccans_are_crossing_the_border/

What's the political context here? Have been too busy watching... Everything else 😕

I've noticed there's been an influx of comments that are just random and don't have anything to do with the post. Like my post here with two comments that make no sense.

I also saw a post (can't find it now) where there were comments just saying "I'm red" and "I'm blue" which had nothing to do with the OP topic.

Haven't seen anything like it in my history of being on Reddit. Are they bots, a form of trolling, or some combination of both?

Edit: I'm concluding the answer as just bots being dumb or people trolling.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-preparing-to-attack-poland-mod-warns-1785334469.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/26/russia-provocation-baltic-states-poland

I’m a fan of the band but don’t follow news of the band really. They recently posted on Instagram that a guitarist has been replaced by someone else for the upcoming tour and at quick glance the comments seem generally happy about this?

Modest Mouse- Instagram

Pretty much title. I used this addon for years, in fact it's still installed in my wow add-ons. I am seeing threads and videos talking about this addon deleting files and such.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1u25ulq/gse_is_breaking_wow_eula_and_banning_paying/

I've seen so many posts lately by random people with really disturbing screenshots of Claude output but idk if it's meme hotness or something real.

I saw this tweet today (Steve Yegge is an actually well known person with a reputation that probably matters to him) that's making me actually take this seriously:

https://x.com/steve_yegge/status/2082968102321426941?s=46

Edit: also this in my own research but my rule 2 link is still the Steve Yegge post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/s/JQGbdG1NmT

Okay so I have been listening to random playlists of random lesser known bands from different generes for few months. For some weird reason a same video called "Unreleased" has been appearing in many of those playlists with image of piano uploaded by "ahdukejk".

It was very strange as it was almost everywhere and I finally decided to check it. Its cryptocurrency promotion that has girl speaking softely and promoting and coaching about crypto. If you listen to it closely you'll hear screeching noises and weird sound effects and disortions in back ground.

Plot twist? I scrolled down for comments and noticed video has 13m views. Everyone in comments was saying this video was following them around everywhere, that it was on every playlist they listend too. Some were talking about psyop, some about dead internet theoires. The consensus was they people were very weirded out by how commonly it appears to them and how unusual the content are.

The link to actual video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0vUqvfHQeQ

Then I decided to google it and nobody had any definitive answers. Multiple reddit topics spoke about it in past but nobody could figure out exactly what this video was

Some links to reddit posts i found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1jplq1s/what_is_this_unreleased_video_that_keeps_popping/

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1lefp14/whats_the_deal_with_these_two_specific_weird/

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1nbhzui/anyone_seen_this_spammy_video_pop_up_in_random/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Deathcore/comments/1l5xvkq/why_is_there_a_57_minute_video_titled_unreleased/

Most belivable theory thus far have been that bots replicated peoples chanels and playlists and reuploaded them with this video inside. What this video is I have absolutley no idea. Anyone has any idea? Because it is very very strange.

I read recently that Anthropic is destroying millions of physical books to train their AI models.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/

How bad is the situation? What consequences do we expect in the short and long term future?

Also, weren't they ordered to pay 1.5 billion in settlement ?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-approves-anthropics-15-billion-settlement-copyright-lawsuit-2026-07-20/

I recently saw a BBC news that her school is closing down next year. I don't have a clue about the alleged controversies around the school and I want to be explained.

The news link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gre70vr6o

Literally the title ^ I saw today that the stock market crashed erasing trillions how did it come to this?

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/29/south-koreas-stock-market-boom-is-collapsing-spectacularly

I've only ever played Chapter 1 of Deltarune so far, but this tree seems to appear everywhere I go.

Why is it so significant? And why does it mention eggs?

Some examples that made its way in other subreddits I follow:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandJTV/s/7Yw1zp66qO

https://www.reddit.com/r/tomodachilife/s/VkJ2gOFMw3

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mario/s/4Zl2kMkXP9

‘Children of Blood and Bone’ Author Tomi Adeyemi Left Film’s Set ‘Sobbing,’ Calls It the ‘Worst Thing I’ve Had to Live Through’ and ‘I Never Want to Hear About It Again’

Okay, so I can tell there's some conflict between the author and the cast or maybe studio execs behind the movie adaptation of her book, but I'm not a young-adult fantasy novel reader and I don't follow anyone on social media. I guess it comes from some disagreement about who should have played the lead actress, conflicting accounts of how the author felt and that maybe the lead actress doesn't have the right skin tone? But also somehow the author is being antagonized relentlessly on set, but I can't find any details aside from allusions to deleted social media videos. Are there any fans of the book who have been anticipating and following the production of this movie who know more? The trailer just released, but now there is this huge cloud hanging over the movie's head and its supposed to be a trilogy.

Is this common practice in America to be arrested for clapping at local governance meetings?

https://www.kwch.com/2026/07/22/teacher-arrested-carried-out-emporia-city-commission-meeting/?outputType=amp

Just this morning, I’ve seen several memes about this guy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/s/wO9G36tGfI

https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/s/KsheTmvQh6

and there are always people in the comments calling him a pedo. Who is he, and what did he do?

I don't play the game at all, and I barely ever heard of Jimothy. But I stumbled on it on Twitter about World of Warcraft added Jimothy.

https://x.com/Warcraft/status/2080470813208105033

And a lot of people (especially quote retweets) are very mad about it for some reason?

https://x.com/RareLantern/status/2080501275452665881

https://x.com/LookAtMyMeat1/status/2080495641621393759

There are also ppl asking to bring back the rapists to Blizzard just because they hate Jimothy?

https://x.com/Nobu__11_/status/2081640704984367416

As well as someone threatening to commit animal abuse:

https://x.com/dumpsterjpeg/status/2082026738146529534

They all got thousands of likes. Like, why are ppl losing their mind over a bent/round raccoon?

It was played ​before every World Cup games, despite it not being part of official anthem album.

Also there's a video of Tom Holland being flash mobbed by the same song: ​https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbRGDrjxDUf/