Category: Internet Culture

Beloved internet star Zombie Kid is all grown up, still loves turtles at the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie premiere

Zombie Kid is back, and he still likes turtles.

One of the all-time great internet videos stars Zombie Kid (a.k.a. Jonathan), the lad at the state fair who shared his enjoyment of turtles with the world when interviewed by a local television news crew.

“I like turtles” is the stuff of internet legend, and the good folks trying to promote the new film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem did exactly what you think they did by the way this article introduction went.

Yes, Jonathan the Zombie Kid has made his triumphant return, makeup and all, to offer the exact review you’d expect for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.

Like, c’mon, this is amazing. The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie has debuted to some fantastic reviews, but none will hold more weight than that of Zombie Kid.

If he liked it, then the odds are very good for this one to uphold the high standards we all have for turtles.

Connections today: Answer, clues for NYT game on Thursday July 27 2023

Some clues, tips, strategies to guess NYT Connections on July 27, long with the answers.

WARNING: THERE ARE CONNECTIONS SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT THE JULY 27 2023 WORDLE ANSWER SPOILED FOR YOU.

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Have you been trying out Connections, the super fun new word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It’s pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we’re here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:

1. Cheers to this category!

2. Check the weather for these.

3. You might have seen these on the silver screen.

4. You could subscribe to this group.

The answers are below this photo:

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Cocktails, storms, movie title cities, fashion magazines.

Connections today: Answer, clues for NYT game on Wednesday July 26 2023

Some clues, tips, strategies to guess NYT Connections on July 26, along with the answers.

WARNING: THERE ARE CONNECTIONS SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT THE JULY 26 2023 WORDLE ANSWER SPOILED FOR YOU.

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Have you been trying out Connections, the super fun new word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It’s pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we’re here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:

1. Head to the drive thru for these.

2. You can use one of these to travel.

3. Did you dribble before realizing these were a foursome?

4. Rock on with these four.

The answers are below this photo:

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Fast food chains, modes of transportation, NBA players, band names minus their colors.

It’s time to declare it: ATTENZIONE PICKPOCKET! is the meme of summer 2023

These videos of a woman calling out pickpockets in Venice are now the best memes.

I have seen all your memes, and as the judge of all things meme*, I would like to declare a winner: ATTENZIONE PICKPOCKET IS THE MEME OF SUMMER 2023.

(*Not a real thing, also not a real award, but stick with me.)

There’s been a lot to love, from Barbenheimer memes to Lionel Messi at at Publix to the awesomeness that is the Las Vegas Sphere and its memes.

But, no: The award goes to a 57-year-old in Venice named Monica Poli. Per a New York Times interivew that dropped, “She is part of a group known as the Cittadini Non Distratti — the undistracted citizens — who wander the city shouting at people whom they believe to be thieves plucking wallets, passports and other items from the pockets of passers-by.”

And her voice screaming ATTENZIONE PICKPOCKET! ATTENZIONE BORSEGGIATRICI! at people trying to steal from tourists — who run away and hide their faces — is the best … and so are the memes:

Connections today: Answer, clues for NYT game on Tuesday July 25 2023

Some clues, tips, strategies to guess NYT Connections on July 25, along with the answers.

WARNING: THERE ARE CONNECTIONS SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT THE JULY 25 2023 WORDLE ANSWER SPOILED FOR YOU.

Ready?

OK!

Have you been trying out Connections, the super fun new word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It’s pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we’re here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:

1. What’s the matter with this category?

2. You might use a menu on your computer for these four.

3. We almost used one of these words if we had lost this puzzle badly.

4. These four all use the same letters.

The answers are below this photo:

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

States of matter, edit menu commands, words for defeat badly, anagrams

What are Skibidi toilets? Explaining the bizarre YouTube video series that’s taking over the internet

The new, bizarre YouTube series that’s sweeping the internet.

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. Have you seen a meme or videos with toilets that have heads coming out of them, going to war with other, weird-looking figures? And you’re confused or slightly disturbed? We’re here to help.

What I’m about to break down for you is one of the weirdest things I’ve seen on the internet in the last few months: It’s some toilets with heads in them, singing. But then they also battle other bizarre-looking creatures, and it’s become a whole thing.

Welcome to Skibidi Toilets. We’re here to help explain them:

7 things the new, ugly Twitter X logo looks like, according to Twitter

Seriously, this is the new Twitter logo.

Sometimes, Elon Musk says something is going to happen with Twitter and the change or idea doesn’t materialize.

But that didn’t happen with his latest head-scratcher of an idea as people have flocked to Threads as of late: Over the weekend, the owner said Twitter’s famous blue bird logo would be replaced by … an X.

We all kind of laughed, made some jokes and maybe we doubted it would actually happen.

Nope! On Monday, there it was: An X.

So of course Twitter users took a look and talked (joked) about what that logo looks like, which we’ve collected below:

Connections today: Answer, clues for NYT game on Monday July 24 2023

Some clues, tips, strategies to guess NYT Connections on July 24, along with the answers.

WARNING: THERE ARE CONNECTIONS SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT THE JULY 24 2023 WORDLE ANSWER SPOILED FOR YOU.

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Have you been trying out Connections, the super fun new word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It’s pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we’re here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:

1. You’ll squawk at this category.

2. You’ll sing a certain Coldplay song when you figure this one out.

3. Don’t be mad when you can’t figure this one out.

4. Think male.

The answers are below this photo:

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Marine birds, yellow things, words for angry, ____ boys

Elon Musk said he’d rebrand Twitter’s logo to X and everyone was baffled

Twitter is just getting worse and worse.

However you utilize it, Twitter’s gradual decline over the last few months has been noticeable.

In February, the website broke down for an indefinite period of time. In March, various famous people — including pro athletes — publicly decried paying $8 for a verified blue checkmark. In early July, we saw the first instance of an infamous “rate limit” message when trying to tweet … anything. And then, just a few days later, many flocked over to Meta’s competitor app, Threads, in reaction to some of Twitter’s recent pitfalls.

Despite all of this, the website’s owner Elon Musk seems committed to continue ruining what made the place palatable for most.

In the late hours of Saturday night, Musk revealed Twitter would soon be rebranding to “X.” That famous blue bird everyone knows? Gone.

It’s one thing to change a brand you own to your “vision” (I use vision extremely loosely). Which sure, whatever. But words like “tweet” and “retweet” have literally become famous verbs in the cultural lexicon. And that little blue bird facilitating them was something even non-users of Twitter could easily recognize. Brand goodwill, so to speak, means a lot here!

From every perspective, it’s hard to see how “X” will be a good decision for the platform in the long run. But it’s not out of character based on the last few months.

Connections today: Answer, clues for NYT game on Sunday July 23 2023

Some clues, tips, strategies to guess NYT Connections on July 23, along with the answers.

WARNING: THERE ARE CONNECTIONS SPOILERS AHEAD! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT THE JULY 23 2023 WORDLE ANSWER SPOILED FOR YOU.

Ready?

OK!

Have you been trying out Connections, the super fun new word game from the New York Times that has people sharing those multi-colored squares on social media like they did with Wordle? It’s pretty fun and sometimes very challenging, so we’re here to help you out with some clues and the answer for the four categories that you need to know:

1. The clue is the very end of this sentence.

2. Better run to this category.

3. Meow!

4. You could use these on your next Caribbean vacation.

The answers are below this photo:

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Punctuation marks, words for running quickly, ___ cat, scuba gear