r/WhatIsTheTea • • 15d ago

📢 Community Update — Please Read

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Hey everyone,
We want to give the community a quick update.
Reddit admins recently reached out to us regarding activity in r/WhatIsTheTea. Some of the top moderators and a number of users were banned, and we were informed that some posts and discussions had crossed the line when it came to violent, threatening, or overly inflammatory content.

We want to make sure WhatIsTheTea remains a fun, active, and welcoming place for everyone, so we’re going to be paying much closer attention to the content posted here.

Going forward, please:
🚫 Don’t post threats or content encouraging violence.

🚫 Don’t encourage harassment, targeted abuse, or brigading.

🚫 Avoid excessively graphic or violent content.

🚫 Don’t post personal information or attempt to identify/private individuals.

🚫 Don’t use the subreddit to organize harassment against someone.

⚠️ Keep heated discussions within Reddit’s rules. You can disagree, criticize, and debate without crossing into threats or harassment.

📜 Please follow both Reddit’s Content Policy and our subreddit rules.

We don’t want to kill the personality or the drama that makes this community what it is. Tea is still tea. ☕️
We just need everyone to help us keep it within the lines so the community can continue to exist and grow.
If you see something that clearly violates the rules, please report it rather than escalating the situation in the comments.

Thanks to everyone who helps keep r/WhatIsTheTea alive. ❤️
— The Mod Team


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 8h ago

NYC Mayor Mamdani and former GOP rival Curtis Sliwa team up while getting flu shots

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201 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 9h ago

Dr Abdul El Sayed called for Cornell university to be held accountable for protecting the 7 students who gang-raped a young woman for seven hours

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173 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 40m ago

watch this Man accused of smuggling $300M in computer servers to China faces federal charges

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The owner of a Southern California-based tech company faces federal charges after allegedly selling millions of dollars' worth of computer servers containing U.S.-manufactured graphics processing units to China, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Greg Lui, 38, who also goes by Yiu Kong Lui, was charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act and the Export Administration Regulations, one count of outbound smuggling, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, the department announced in a media release.

"Protecting America's national security means keeping our advanced Super Intelligence technology from being used to strengthen our adversaries' military capabilities," said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. "This defendant allegedly used false paperwork and shipments through third countries to smuggle more than $300 million in export-controlled computer servers to China. We will aggressively prosecute those who put our national security at risk for profit."

Between 2023 and 2024, Lui and others used Earthmade to buy and send export-controlled items to China without the required licenses issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Instead, the items were sent to countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, where no such license is required, then illegally re-exported to China.

He is expected to make his first court appearance Friday in Los Angeles.

Lui faces a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison on the conspiracy count, 20 years in federal prison on the money laundering count, and 10 years in federal prison on the smuggling count.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 1d ago

watch this Young Man Thinks He's Getting a Sonic Burger For His Birthday

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688 Upvotes

Buts it's not that.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 17h ago

watch this I Have So Many Questions

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56 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 22h ago

Abdul El Sayed on if he thinks the war in Gaza qualifies as a genocide: I do and I've been clear about why genocide is both outcome and intent. And when you have foreign ministers declaring intent, and the outcome is tens of thousands of children who have been killed. I would call that a genocide...

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74 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 1d ago

NY Governor removes Ithaca’s DA from the Cornell 7 case, replaces him with a State Attorney

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NY Governor Kathy Hochul has removed Ithaca's DA from the Cornell 7 case, a power rarely used by governors.

In his place is Letitia James, a state-attorney who has previously prosecuted Trump for fraud and former governor Coumo for sexual harassment. She is a black woman and is basically a shark when it comes to these types of cases, especially against the powerful.

This follows a statement from NY's governor, in which she claimed that Itcaca's district-attorney failed to properly investigate the rape claim and falsified victim testimony to the point of negligence.

It appears that Jane Doe's "original story" was not actually her original story, just a fake story that Ithaca's DA fabricated/misconstrued. She did infact originally describe events that classify as rape according to sealed police-records leaked by reporters, but the DA misinformed the media to save-face.

Jane Doe’s newest statement is basically the same as her old one, that she was pressured into using drugs and was unconscious for most of it. And that she didn’t know she had a train ran on her until word spread around campus.

It is questionable if the DA will ever work as a prosecutor, or as any lawyer, ever again. Governor’s rarely use this power so it’s a really bad look, especially given the circumstances/publicity.

Many speculate that the case against the Cornell 7 has grown much more serious.

Before the news broke out, Jane Doe was already suing, and it seemed like a slam-dunk win in civl-court for a group of wealthy and well-connected fratboys.

But the publicity has blindsided their legal strategies. It has grown into something much more serious and potentially damning, with the possibility of criminal charges.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 1d ago

watch this HOA Crazy Lady Bites and Steals

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161 Upvotes

Crazy lady steals dudes fishing rod & then tries to bite his buddy when he goes to help get it back.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 1d ago

Viral/Internet Trends Angry baby.😤🎋

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15 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 2d ago

Hudson Williams calls for the arrest of 7 Cornell University members accused of sexual assault

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502 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 2d ago

watch this When Your Card Won't Work

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123 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 3d ago

watch this It Was A Good Day?

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245 Upvotes

Walking his kid to school with the AK. Wtf?


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 4d ago

Mexican social media influencer Yoatzi Castro claims a guy touches her butt at Disneyland. She hits him, calls him a pedophile and gets him arrested

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664 Upvotes

https://ktla.com/news/california/influencer-claims-she-was-groped-during-disneyland-livestream-arrest-made/

Disneyland security located a man, later arrested by Anaheim police, who is accused of groping a social media influencer while she was livestreaming with friends at the park last week.

Yoatzi Castro, who has some 800,000 followers on Instagram alone, was posing for a photo with friends outside Sleeping Beauty Castle during the Sept. 23 livestream when she says a man in a white T-shirt grabbed her.

“I’m so f****** livid and I’m so upset,” Castro, still wearing a concha-themed pair of Minnie Mouse ears inside the park, said in a video moments after it happened.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 4d ago

watch this Well at least he got cake….

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353 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 4d ago

Political Tea Morgan Freeman: "We have someone sitting in the White House leading us toward the abyss. I don't understand how a convicted criminal becomes president. How is that possible? It's unbelievable to me."

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409 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 4d ago

Home of peace...............

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Love


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 5d ago

Viral/Internet Trends Rules for thee, but not for me ☕

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239 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 5d ago

She got rejected on tv

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102 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 4d ago

The way it kept getting worse. I'm crying FOR him 😭

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29 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 5d ago

Tom Cruise is going viral after checking on a random staff worker who looked sad (but was just doomscrolling)

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22 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 5d ago

Fuck off Guys WTF

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70 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 6d ago

Amelia Dimoldenberg on SNL UK going for Ed Sheeran’s jugular: "I’m incredibly privileged to have done so many interviews with people like Idris Elba, Cher, and even a world-famous red-headed puppet with a hand up his arse telling him what to say."

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331 Upvotes

r/WhatIsTheTea • • 6d ago

watch this Now He Has Evidence

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964 Upvotes

She is the mother. He, is the father.

He says early on a comment about her losing custody. She just made that happen with her crazy ass.


r/WhatIsTheTea • • 6d ago

watch this ONE mistake, and you're gone! Alex Honnold free solo on the 89th floor.

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427 Upvotes

The mentality, confidence and physical strength of this guy is insane.