WELCOME TO THE TRENDIES! The best and worst memes/stories/media figures/online menaces of the year are awarded by us (and you) in this special episode.

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"...the most believable reason I've seen for all these drones"

Tana Mongesu's got jokes about the Brianna Chickenfry and Grace O'Malley friendship breakup

Curated Luigi Mangione TikToks on IG - mangione.updates

"I was married to a serial killer for 7 and a half years"

American Eagle Diet Coke sweater

Luigi Mangione's fellow inmates yell updates to News Nation's Ashley Banfield

Experts explain the phenomenon of adults who leave their lives behind - r/HannaKobayashi

Grandpa corn bread muppet story

Trisha Paytas says Shane Dawson was a robot who malfunctioned all the time

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The entire country isn't looking for the assassin who gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, Trisha Paytas' manifestation guide cannot come soon enough, the phrase "Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull" enters the lexicon, and The Rizzler's verse on a Christmas song is kinda good.

On The Afters: Jay-Z named in a Diddy lawsuit, South Korea, 10 years of KissGate, and a cruel prank to pull on your ex...

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The United Healthcare CEO

The (potential) killer is a cutie

Backpack full of monopoly money

Ben Shapiro doesn’t realise this has united the left and right

There was a lookalike contest

This one guy is exposing his boyfriend

The Rizzler

The Rizzler’s verse on a Christmas song goes insanely hard

Trisha on SNL

Trish killed it

Ethan Klein needs to eat his own arm now

Hawk Tuah memecoin saga

Hailey Welch may be facing jail time

Did they use AI to make it appear like she was on Twitter Spaces?

“Anywho, I’m going to go to bed”

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Making a meme - “holding space with the lyrics of defying gravity”

Neurodivergent student at UCLA says he’s been unfairly accused of using AI in his papers

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A thrifty home chef gets love for her Dollar Tree Thanksgiving meal, Nick Cannon drops his Cluster B diagnosis, a man drops a G on a sponge, and John Ramsey is talking.

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Hannah Kobayashi

Hannah Kobayashi Secrets

Nick Cannon

Nick Cannon reveals Narcissistic Personality Disorder diagnosis 

JonBenet

John Ramsey sits with Ashley Flowers from Crime Junkies for a 90min interview

Dollar Tree Dinners

Dollar Tree Dinners gets a lot of love for her $20 Dollar Tree Thanksgiving videos after a man saw a mother buying the ingredients he remembered from her video. His TikTok story time alone gets 5.2m likes and 35m views

Dollar Tree Dinners TikTok

Delta Werk chimes in

Trendy John 

Trendy John has bought a $999 giant scrub daddy and is testing it in water 

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How to make a cool sound

https://youtu.be/yxDN6kX6Qdo?si=6LRavZDpPgcAIayA

James Charles doesn’t give AF what you think about TikTok Ads

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A new type of celebrity face has people talking, a baffling video of Putin, Jay Leno's debt to the mob, and (obviously) holding space for the lyrics of Defying Gravity.

On The Afters: AI Jesus, the best friend everyone deserves, and missing woman Hannah Kobayashi

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Holding Space

Out reporter tells Cynthia Erivo that people are holding space for the lyrics of defying gravity

The press tour has been emotional

New plastic surgery 

There’s a new plastic surgeon who is responsible for incredible results for Lindsay Lohan, Christina Aguilera, Madonna, and Demi Moore

Woman guesses what Lohan had done to her face based on her own surgeries

Russia

Putin threatens war, but is this video a deep fake?

His hands do not move for 8 mins

Sped up version

Jay Leno

Is someone trying to kill Jay Leno?

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r/Vent

Tyson vs Paul is way more tragic the more you think about it

The Viral Auctioneer

Phyllis Kao

Banned words

A teacher’s list of banned words/phrases in her classroom goes viral

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Netflix couldn't handle the amount of people who tuned in to watch Jake Paul fight Mike Tyson live, Gwen Stefani showed up on HSN to sell her new album, boomers feel denied of their Grandma Era, and Barron Trump loves his suitcase!

This week on The Afters: The Onion buys InfoWars, a missing Gossip Girl actress claims she was not missing at all

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Knee Surgery

Home Alone Knee Surgery

That Feeling When Knee Surgery is tomorrow Grinch video

Gwen Stefani

Gwen Stefani selling her new album on Home Shopping Network (HSN)

“I’m on hsn!” - Gwen via Instagram

Jeffree Star is making 50K a day on TikTok live

Barron Trump

Lara Trump says Barron’s influence has had a huge impact on Trump

“I like my sootcase” - Barron Trump speaks

Jake & Uncle Mike

Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight shows Netflix still struggles with live events

Mike Tyson talks about ‘legacy’ with a kid

Boomer Baby Guilt

The Unspoken Grief of Never Becoming a Grandparent

/r/childfree reacts

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Jeremy Allen White lookalike competition

Diddy Influencers

How Diddy’s Fall Ushered in a New Type of News Influencer

TipToes

Matthew McConaughey's REACTION To Tiptoes Trailer

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We start off light this week before going fully ELECTION DENIER. Martha Stewart and Ryan Reynold's beef, Grimes wants to chat up Quentin Tarantino, and the unpleasant details of Brianna LaPaglia and Zach Bryan's breakup.

On The Afters this week: North Korean soldiers are addicted to porn, Grammy nominations and our predictions

Election talk time codes in case you want to skip it:

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Martha & Ryan

The history of the playful beef

Swinging blind

Brianna Chickenfry/Zach Bryan

Brianna Chickenfry details her emotionally abusive relationship with Zach Bryan and explains why she turned down his $12 million settlement to sign an NDA

Dave releases a new version of “Smallest Man” after Warner had the first version removed for copyright infringement

Grimes

Grimes is desperate to get in touch with Quentin Tarantino

Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke appeared on TalkTV and had some choice words for Donald Trump

Musk

Video tracks Elon’s purchase of Twitter, election misinformation, and helps explain how he’s been helping Trump and the MAGA media employees for years

Susie Wilkes article: The Most Feared and Least Known Political Operative in America

Joe Rogan tells Theo Von that, according to UFC president Dana White, Elon had an app that said Trump had won the election four hours before the public knew

Theory that Joe Rogan intentionally revealed that Elon might have been involved with hacking the election

“Musk is definitely under investigation”

Starlink being used in the election is very concerning

POS kid who voted for Trump explains why his win isn’t a big deal and that Democrats are just being babies about it

Astrologer reads Elon Musk’s chart

These racist texts are in fact real

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Astronaut stuck in space

People are concerned about astronaut Sunny Williams’ appearance in new pictures 

Ring video 

Homeless couple meets on Tinder

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GOD BLESS AMERICA!! Hope this episode finds you well!

Meredith Lynch is here to fill in for Tiffany, who is at Disneyland Paris with her man. Stories this week: the aggressive Wicked press rollout and merch, a bride who is getting married at Disney World for the sixth time, and the mask fetish role plays that have accumulated a big fan base from BookTok.

On The Afters: Jimmy Fallon disrespects The Costco Guys and The Rizzler, Michael Cohen's TikTok Lives, and some Boston barre class drama.

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Biden 

Joe Biden meets baby dressed as a turkey 

Has Major been taking the fall? 

The Disney Bride

TheSerialBride explains her annual weddings at Disney World

People Magazine coverage of The Serial Bride

Wicked Insane PR

“Can you tell me one thing about the other as a scene partner?”

Fans react to Cynthia explaining her reaction to seeing an edited fan poster based on the original Playbill

Elphaba roulette

Cynthia and Ariana arrive at the world premiere in Australia

Overstimulated Masked Men

A new genre of fantasy is being played out on TikTok called overstimulated masked men

“You’re in a dark romance and just ran away from the masked character”

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In honor of Internet Day, name your favorite internet moment of all time

Lana Del Rey shows disgust when asked about marriage

World of TShirts gets a Liam Payne tribute tattoo

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Despite Reddit snarkers anticipating the break-up of country artist Zach Bryan and his Barstool Podcaster girlfriend, Brianna Chickenfry, the messy nature of how it finally went down STILL created a lot of frenzied conversation. Musician Loomis' rendition of the National Anthem joins the list of the worst versions of it ever sang. Jimmy John's introduces a scooped out pickle stuffed with Italian meats and it's bringing people to tears. The Most Prolific Catfish is hunted down in Northern Ireland and it's discovered that in his short 26 years of life he'd hoodwinked at least 3,500 very young girls into sending him explicit photos of themselves.

On The Afters: Google reviews left by Larries, Corrina Knopf's hefty OnlyFans earnings, the Timmothy Chalamet lookalike contest, and rants on rants

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New Best Worst Nation Anthem

“I fucked it up”

Totally real and not staged TMZ interview

“And the rockets were there”

Helen Mirren 

Helen Mirren says it is so had Kurt Cobain died when he did because he never got to see GPS

Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfy

Zach Bryan announced breakup

Brianna responds on Plan Bri

Zach and Brianna relationship timeline

Dave Portnoy says he never liked Zach and that he was weird and jealous

Zach Bryan doing cha cha dance (I saw a fan of his on Reddit saying he looks cute here)

Video of Zach Byan sleeping in a girl’s bed 10/19 or 10/20

The World’s Most Prolific Catfish Jailed For Life

64 seized devices snared child sex abuser

Picklewich

Jimmy John’s introduces the Picklewich, GM says that they’ve changed people’s lives. Customers have cried.

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Doja Stan Kicked out of M&G, recaps on Twitter

Girl stares down the competition at a livestock competition

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One Direction's Liam Payne passed away in Buenos Aires, a former Grey's Anatomy writer who faked cancer (and so much more) was aired out in a new Peacock documentary, Grimes talked to her fans on X about her current legal woes and feeling like a hostage.

On The Afters: Aspyn Ovard's former mother-in-law may be one of her biggest snarkers, Andrew Garfield on Chicken Shop Date, the cutlery drawer from hell, and access to our Discord.

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Election Bullshit 

Twitter thread explaining how Peter Thiel and Elon Musk are counting on Trump’s death so they can go through with their plan of taking over the country

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Liam Payne

One direction tribute

Simon Cowell Steps down

The lead up to his death

Liam Payne donated thousands of pounds to GoFundMe pages before death

Two hotel employees are under investigation for possibly supplying Liam with the drugs in the soap box

Grimes update

Elon has been using her IG posts against her

Anatomy of Lies

Elisabeth Finch apology

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Don’t watch Beyonce conspiracies before a general anaesthetic

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JoJo Siwa shows her extremely online side during an acceptance speech, Kanye West is sued by his former assistant for an alleged rape at a studio session with Diddy, UK's own Virginia McCullough stays calm while being arrested for the double murder of her parents, and Elon Musk is... such a bad dude.

On The Afters: Caroline Calloway's Hurricane Milton experience, Gary Peacock, Shein scorpios, and vulnerable venting

The Late, Great Hannibal Lecter merch

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Steve Bartman episode of Oh, Malort!

Elon / Grimes Update

Tesla’s Optimus Robot is basically a puppet

Grimes sad post about parenting

Cybertruck insurance canceled by GEICO

JoJo

Jojo makes a joke about having to thank Beyoncé at the Independent Dance Awards

Kanye 

Kanye West is accused of drugging and raping former assistant at a studio session with Diddy

Kanye wanted to have sex with Bianca Censori’s mom in front of her

Virginia McCullough

Virginia McCullough arrest video

Details coming out about Virginia McCullough

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Alex Cooper

Trump calls Alex Cooper a dummy after her interview with Kamala

Kricketfelt accuses people of being jealous/hating on her for staying during Milton because she ha a concrete house

Kricketfelt’s house went under water

Last update from concrete house lady

Hubbard Inn update

Judge denies motion to dismiss the case against TikToker who accused Chicago eatery, Hubbard Inn, of allowing a security guard to manhandle her

Scott J. Taylor

Guy logs on to Twitter to say that he understands why men cheat on their wives after birth because he’s going through it with his wife 8 weeks postpartum. He’s chased off the Internet, but only because he was revealed to be on gay dating websites

Big Brother

An endearing conversation on Big Brother UK

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