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A Fish Tank Exploded at a Chinese Restaurant—and the Footage Is Kind of Hilarious

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:49:19 +0000

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Lunch at a seafood restaurant in Fuzhou, China, took a hard left from “fresh catch” to “indoor aquarium” after a giant fish tank exploded mid-service, drenching diners and sending live fish skidding through the dining room.

Security footage captured the moment it all went south. In the video, a worker points toward the bottom of the tank, bends in for a closer look, and seconds later, the entire thing bursts open. A wall of water rushes across the floor, knocking chairs aside while dozens of fish surf their way toward freedom. Diners scream, servers freeze, and, of course, a few people had to bust out their phones because “did it really happen if it wasn’t filmed?”

According to The New York Post, the restaurant had just installed the tank when it gave out. One witness described the moment as “a mini tsunami,” and the footage backs it up. Water pours in like a floodgate opened, leaving customers scrambling onto chairs while waiters try to catch slippery fish with their hands.

Fish Tank Explosion at Chinese Restaurant Sends Dozens of Fish Swimming Through Dining Room

Online, the spectacle has become a viral buffet of fish jokes. “At least the ingredients are fresh,” one user wrote on Weibo. Another added, “The service here swims right over to you.” Even the local press couldn’t resist the irony—a seafood restaurant, drowned by its own décor.

The restaurant’s owner told reporters everyone’s meals were comped. “We were thankful no one was hurt,” he said, as staff mopped up the wreckage and scooped surviving fish into buckets. The cause of the burst is still unclear, though reports suggest the tank may have been newly fitted and poorly sealed.

By evening, the restaurant had unintentionally achieved viral sainthood. Clips of the watery disaster flooded social media platforms, turning an average lunch hour into global entertainment. Some viewers called it divine retribution for ordering seafood hot pot. Others simply said they’d never seen fresher sashimi.

What’s left of the tank now sits cracked and empty, a monument to hubris and humidity. For diners, it was a meal they’ll be talking about for years. For the fish, it was a fleeting taste of freedom.

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This Viral Video Has People Talking About Christianity Versus ‘MAGA Christianity’

admin — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:31:20 +0000

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Earlier this year, Jen Hamilton, a nurse with a sizable following on TikTok and Instagram, picked up her Bible and made a video that would quickly go viral.

A few days earlier, Hamilton, who lives in a small town in North Carolina, had posted a video asking her followers about resources she could give to people in her life who were beginning to deconstruct their loyalty to the MAGA movement.

There were some helpful tips, but Hamilton noticed one reply in particular: “Whoa,” it said. “Be careful now. I am happily MAGA and I love Jesus. We are exhausted from liberal nonsense.”

Hamilton didn’t want to argue. Instead, she grabbed her Bible and attempted to “hold up the character of Jesus, his actual words, as a mirror” to some of the more ardent supporters of President Donald Trump.

“Basically, I sat down at my kitchen table and began to read from Matthew 25 while overlaying MAGA policies that directly oppose the character and nature of Jesus’ teachings,” she told HuffPost.

“I was hungry and you fed me,” she reads in the clip, as a headline about a Trump administration spending bill that proposes slashing federal funding to the SNAP food program by nearly $300 billion pops up.

“I was in prison and you visited me,” she says, as a headline about migrants who entered the country legally and were still deported to El Salvador prisons appears on the screen.

“I was sick and you cared for me,” she says, as another story, this one about potential cuts to Medicaid, flashes by.

As Hamilton highlights, Matthew 25 stresses that those who serve people in need ― the hungry, the prisoner, the stranger ― will enter his Kingdom, while those who overlook the downtrodden will receive judgment: “When you refused to help the least of these, you were refusing to help me,” Jesus tells the latter.

As she notes in the video, Hamilton thinks that all sounds “pretty liberal.”

In the comments of the video ― which currently has more than 8.6 million views on TikTok ― many (Christians and atheists alike) applauded Hamilton for using straight Scripture as a way of offering commentary. Others picked a bone with Christians who uncritically support Trump.

“As a Christian, I don’t think you can be both MAGA and Christian,” a top comment on the Instagram video reads.

But not everyone was a fan. Hamilton said she’s been on the receiving end of some MAGA ire since posting the clip.

“Some even reported me to the Board of Nursing to have my license taken away,” Hamilton told HuffPost. “As a nurse, I don’t know how you don’t fight for the rights of the vulnerable communities you care for.”

“I’m a Christ-follower but the video I made wasn’t a religious or political statement ― it was a moral one,” she told us, before noting that she believes that there is a big difference between identifying as a Republican and being MAGA.

“The video was about the hypocrisy of people claiming to follow Jesus while supporting a movement that actively harms the specific communities He called us to love,” Hamilton said.

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“The video was about the hypocrisy of people claiming to follow Jesus while supporting a movement that actively harms the specific communities He called us to love,” Hamilton said of her viral video.

Hamilton’s critics say that she is misrepresenting Scripture, but she wonders how that can be when she was literally just reading Jesus’ words.

There’s a deep chasm in American Christianity in part because of Trump.

The fierce debate over Hamilton’s video is a microcosm for what’s been happening in American Christianity for at least the last 50 years, said the Rev. Brandan Robertson, a pastor of Sunnyside Reformed Church in New York City, and the author of “Queer & Christian: Reclaiming the Bible, Our Faith, and our Place at the Table.”

“The religious right was formed to use conservative Christianity as a tool to help right wing politicians gain power and enact policies that preserve white, conservative Christian privilege at the expense of everyone else,” Robertson said in an email interview with HuffPost.

The MAGA movement, Robertson said, is just the “full revelation” of what the religious right has dreamt of doing for decades.

“They have been remarkably effective in their strategy to conflate their values with Christian orthodoxy and have convinced a considerable number of American Christians that to be a Christian is to support right-wing policies,” he said.

Interestingly, most Americans don’t consider President Trump to be particularly religious, with fewer than half in a 2020 Pew survey saying they think he’s Christian. Raised Presbyterian, Trump now calls himself a “non-denominational Christian.”

Still, he has dedicated support among white evangelical Christians. In a Pew survey conducted after his first 100 days in office in April, 72% of white evangelical Protestants approve of his job as president.

The president has surrounded himself with a coterie of evangelical pastors and faith leaders, including Paula White, a tongue-speaking televangelist whose called the Black Lives Matter movement the “Antichrist,” and William Wolfe ― a self-described “Christian nationalist” and executive director of the Center for Baptist Leadership who told conservative news site The Daily Signal he considers mass deportations a Christian issue.

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Faith leaders pray over President Donald Trump during a ‘Evangelicals for Trump’ campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry on January 3, 2020 in Miami, Florida.

Robertson doesn’t think such Christian faith leaders represent the full breadth of American Christianity today.

“There are also many moderate and progressive Christians in our country,” he said. “Nearly every mainline Protestant denomination in the U.S. stands against most if not all of the xenophobic policies coming from the religious right.”

Notable among the critics is Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington who delivered the homily at the interfaith prayer service following Trump’s second presidential inauguration in January.

In her sermon, Budde made a direct plea to Trump, asking him to have “mercy” on those “scared” about his return to the White House and the effect his policies may have on them, such as LGBTQ+ children and undocumented immigrants.

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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (L) arrives as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.

While Protestants may be the most vocal critics of the Trump administration, a number of evangelicals and Catholics have split off from the MAGA movement and spoken about the “the spiritual danger of Donald Trump.”

The latter have been particularly vocal about the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant actions. Earlier this month, the first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV called for priests, deacons and parish leaders to stand in solidarity with migrants by showing up to immigration court proceedings.

“All of these people are working to shake their fellow believers out of their obsession with Trump and calling them back to Christ,” Robertson said.

“Prophetic, progressive Christians that are devoted to the way of Jesus are standing up and speaking up, and I am hopeful that we can form coalitions that can change the direction of this country for the common good of all people,” he said.

Some Christians say they hope other believers begin to put Jesus first again.

As Carrie McKean, a writer and the communications director at First Presbyterian Church Midland in West Texas, has written about, there are even pastors who generally like Trump’s border policy while still worrying about, and even sheltering, migrants.

“Despite the way MAGA, populism and Christian Nationalism might be dominating this current political moment — and despite the way many within those movements distort and twist Jesus’ words to achieve their own ends — it’s so important to remember, Jesus was never trying to build a kingdom of this world,” McKean told HuffPost.

″[Jesus] cannot be sorted into one of our contemporary political boxes — he is not merely liberal or conservative,” she said.

As a follower of Jesus, McKean said she’s praying that more Christians demonstrate a willingness to place even the strongest political convictions beneath the authority of Jesus.

“To do this, we each must cultivate a critical eye toward our own parties,” she said. “We must stay alert, recognizing that earthly rulers are prone to manipulation, power plays (Matthew 20:25), and ungodly acts of injustice (Ecclesiastes 5:8–9).”

Hamilton, the creator of the viral video, agrees. She said she’s been most heartened by comments from people who’ve reached out and said that video caused them to give more thought to the political movements they’ve stood behind.

“I heard from people who are finding their faith by divorcing it from Christian nationalism and that brings me hope,” she said. “I’m not trying to turn everyone liberal, I’m just trying to create a moment of pause for people who feel deeply entrenched in MAGA ― to maybe help them reconnect with their own values outside of the noise.”

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Brutal Moment Caught on Camera of White Man in Brutal Chokehold by Black Baltimore Bouncer

admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 12:34:33 +0000

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You’ve likely seen it and talking about it on one of your chat group as we all are. The outside of a Baltimore establishment was the scene of a brutal moment a Black bouncer did the unimaginable to a white man standing outside. Now, not only are Baltimore police looking to identity the bouncer, the ordeal was all caught on camera… and has the internet divided on whose really at fault.

The viral video captured outside of a restaurant called Cross Street Public House in Federal Hill, a neighborhood in Baltimore, in which an unidentified Black bouncer dressed in all black was choking up a white man who was reportedly “challenging” him. As witnesses stood by stunned and speechless, the bouncer can be seen placing the white man in a chokehold for almost 50 seconds. But that’s not half of it.

In the clip, the bouncer slams the man’s head into a parked car’s window, shattering the glass, as the man struggles to get loose from his grip.

After nearly a minute and some bystanders yelling out how the white man is “tapped,” slang for “tapping out” or surrendering, the bouncer eventually let him go. Another man, wearing a shirt with “Security” printed on the back, walked over to the pair and tried to keep the white man from fleeing.

CBS News reported the incident occurred after an argument and Baltimore police are investigating to identify the parties involved. A spokesperson for Cross Street Public House said they employed Ace Event Services Group as security for the evening— whom they have since parted ways with— and that the bouncer was not employed by the restaurant.

Folks sounded off online, condemning the bouncer’s actions.

“Unless the kid is throwing hands or endangering others, you don’t need to be physical,” one person wrote on X, who says they are a former bouncer. “Now the business is exposed to a lawsuit and the bouncer is exposed to both criminal and civil litigation.”

Another X user noted how, “Dude was tapping out and begging to be released from the chokehold and homie responded by strangling him til he was limp and smashing him into a window. Bouncer deserves jail time.”

A third person commented: “Bouncers are genuinely the most insecure, worst people on the planet.”

But not everyone felt the same way.

“Another satisfying racial moment,” one person wrote on Instagram.

One person said, “No one had a word to say when he was violating the bouncer’s personal space” and how “No one said anything or made a sound when he made contact with the bouncer” and that he did “his JOB.”

Another Instagram user asked, “Where was all these chill out people when the white guy started it?”

Isaac “Yitzy” Schleifer, a Baltimore City Councilman, shared his two cents in a post of his own on X, calling for accountability.

He wrote, tagging both BPD and Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, that “both Bouncers/Security guards need to be held accountable.”

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When Is 7-Eleven’s ‘Bring Your Own Cup’ Day?

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:04:06 +0000

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A woman brings two trick-or-treating buckets to 7-Eleven, thinking the convenience chain participates in “bring your own cup day.” But the workers tell her she’s mistaken when she takes out her $4 at the checkout.

In a video with over 6.6 million views, TikTok Aiyanna (@aiyannace) yells, “Hello, everyone! Happy holiday!” as she enters the convenience store.

First, she places one Jack-o’-Lantern bucket underneath the piña colada slushie flavor. She fills it up until the machine is nearly empty. Then, she places the second bucket underneath the blue raspberry flavor and fills it to the brim.

However, she asks the cashier why he looks “confused” as she places the buckets on the register.

Was 7-Eleven participating in ‘bring your own cup’ day?

In a Sept. 4 press release, 7-Eleven announces that its next bring your own cup day is Sept. 13. Customers can bring any container of any size and fill it up with a Slurpee for $1.99. The convenience chain gives “fishbowls, flower vases, pitchers, and popcorn buckets” as examples of acceptable containers.

However, Aiyanna may have mixed up her dates, arriving at the store with her buckets on Sept. 11. The workers shake their heads as they tell Aiyanna that the promotion isn’t valid.

“You gonna make me put my slushie back?” she asks, handing the cashier $4 for the two mega slushies.

One worker insists that bring your own cup day has “never been done.” Some franchises may not participate in the promotion.

The clip cuts, and she shows herself giving the giant slushies to two men outside of 7-Eleven. She reenters the store to buy the other people slushies—albeit normal-sized ones—too.

She asks the worker, “Does this qualify for your program?” as she hands him the Big Gulp-sized slushies.

How did viewers react to her viral mistake?

In the comments, viewers joke about Aiyanna’s go-with-the-flow attitude despite mixing up the dates of the bring your own cup promotion.

“My girl aint let her vibe get killed. she say ‘you get a slushy! YOU get a slushy! EVERYBODY gets a slushy,”” a commenter writes.

“I actually never laughed so hard in my entire life,” another says.

“Everytime I see your videos it’s just a perfect representation of exercising free will and I respect that,” a third adds.

Others point out that the 7-Eleven workers watched her fill the buckets with slushie and didn’t say anything before she reached checkout.

“It’s the fact they gonna tell you it’s not ‘bring your own cup day’ but not act like they did watch you fil up two buckets the whole time,” one says.

“The employees watching you fill up a Halloween bucket with slushie,” another writes.

“I mean they literally could’ve stopped you at ANY point prior to checkout,” a third remarks.

@aiyannace Happy Slushy Day ? #bringyourowncupday #slushy #7eleven #cup ♬ original sound – Aiyanna?

The Mary Sue reached out to 7-Eleven and Aiyanna via email for further comment.

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This Viral Video Has People Talking About Christianity Versus ‘MAGA Christianity’

admin — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 22:49:41 +0000

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Back in June, Jen Hamilton, a nurse with a sizable following on TikTok and Instagram, picked up her Bible and made a video that would quickly go viral.

There were some helpful tips, but Hamilton noticed one reply in particular: “Whoa,” it said. “Be careful now. I am happily MAGA and I love Jesus. We are exhausted from liberal nonsense.”

“I was in prison and you visited me,” she says, as a headline about migrants who entered the country legally and were still deported to El Salvador prisons appears on the screen.

“I was sick and you cared for me,” she says, as another story, this one about potential cuts to Medicaid, flashes by.

As she notes in the video, Hamilton thinks that all sounds “pretty liberal.”

“As a Christian, I don’t think you can be both MAGA and Christian,” a top comment on the Instagram video reads.

But not everyone was a fan. Hamilton said she’s been on the receiving end of some MAGA ire since posting the clip.

“The video was about the hypocrisy of people claiming to follow Jesus while supporting a movement that actively harms the specific communities He called us to love,” Hamilton said.

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Hamilton’s critics say that she is misrepresenting Scripture, but she wonders how that can be when she was literally just reading Jesus’ words.

There’s a deep chasm in American Christianity in part because of Trump.

The MAGA movement, Robertson said, is just the “full revelation” of what the religious right has dreamt of doing for decades.

Joe Raedle via Getty Images

Faith leaders pray over President Donald Trump during a ‘Evangelicals for Trump’ campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry on January 3, 2020 in Miami, Florida.

Robertson doesn’t think such Christian faith leaders represent the full breadth of American Christianity today.

Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (L) arrives as U.S. President Donald Trump looks on during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on Jan. 21, 2025 in Washington, DC.

“All of these people are working to shake their fellow believers out of their obsession with Trump and calling them back to Christ,” Robertson said.

Some Christians say they hope other believers begin to put Jesus first again.

″[Jesus] cannot be sorted into one of our contemporary political boxes — he is not merely liberal or conservative,” she said.

As a follower of Jesus, McKean said she’s praying that more Christians demonstrate a willingness to place even the strongest political convictions beneath the authority of Jesus.

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What Happens When An Airbnb Has Poor Decor?

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:40:34 +0000

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Airbnbs have made vacations more affordable than ever — and some of them really go the extra mile. However, on occasion, you might arrive at your vacation home and discover that things aren’t what they seemed online.

And for TikTok user Tareen (@adventareen), it’s fair to say that things got weird fast.

What was wrong with the Airbnb decor?

In a viral TikTok that has amassed 91,400 views, the TikToker gave viewers an eight-second insight into her Airbnb. She zoomed in on the window, which appeared to be covered by a blue sheet, before focusing specifically on a knife that seemed to have been plunged into the sheet.

The video was accompanied by a viral TikTok sound parodying the Jet2Holidays commercial. “Nothing beats a Panama City Beach vacation,” the voiceover said, “and right now, you can save fifty bucks per person!”

Completing the clip was an on-screen caption reading: “The decor for the Airbnb,” followed by cowboy emojis.

“YK what…” she said in the video description, “Yeah!”

@adventareen

yk what … yeah!

♬ original sound – katie_pike

Viewers were shocked

In the comments, users reacted with a mixture of confusion and humor. “I don’t even understand what that’s doing,” one wrote. “Still safer than the Airbnb with the Trump 2024 sign,” another quipped.

A third remarked that they had “never seen anything like this in [their] entire life,” while a fourth added that the TikToker was given “survival tools.”

“I grew up in Panama City,” a fifth confessed, “This is the whole vibe.”

Several commenters said that the get-up reminded them of Decorating Cents, a TV show where people were tasked with redecorating their home with an extremely limited budget.

Per the Airbnb website, if a guest has an issue with their accommodation, they’re instructed to document the issue, contact their host, and ask for a refund. However, if the host does not comply, the guest can contact Airbnb directly.

More Airbnb drama

This isn’t the first time an Airbnb renter has been met with an unwelcome surprise. In a viral TikTok, user @morahluv shared how the property she stayed in had a real cleanliness issue, including dusty vents, a cloudy stove top, a speckled bathroom floor, and various stains. The worst part? They expected her to pay $250 for a cleaning fee.

“This has got to be a joke,” she said in the video.

Tareen didn’t immediately respond to The Mary Sue’s request for comment via TikTok comment and Instagram direct message.

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Stop the spread of viral AI ‘pregnancy’ videos

admin — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:03:23 +0000

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It seems like LeBron James’ legal team has been trying to stop the spread of viral AI videos featuring the basketball star. As 404 Media , a law firm representing James has sent a cease and desist letter to a person behind an AI platform that allowed Discord users to make AI videos of James and other NBA stars.

As 404 noted, these videos have been circulating for awhile but it’s one particularly strange clip that seems to have gotten James’ lawyers involved. The video, which reportedly racked up millions of views on Instagram, shows a pregnant James being loaded into an ambulance after telling an AI Steph Curry to “come quick our baby is being born.”

404 reports that at least three Instagram accounts that had shared the clip have since been removed, though the video is available . The founder of the AI platform used to make the videos also posted about the cease and desist letter . It’s unclear what is in the letter, or if James’ lawyers were also in touch with Meta about the videos. We’ve reached out to the company for more info on its rules.

Of course, LeBron James is far from the only public figure to grapple with unwanted AI versions of themselves. Social media scammers routinely impersonate celebrities to promote sketchy products and other schemes. We’ve previously reported on such scams involving and Fox News personalities that have proliferated on Facebook. Jamie Lee Curtis also recently had to publicly plead with Mark Zuckerberg to take down of herself.

A still from a clip created with Google’s Veo (left) and images generated by Meta AI (right) (Screenshots via Veo and Meta AI)

But the videos of James are a little different. They don’t feature fake endorsements and seem to be more of a prank meant to go viral in the way that lots of “AI slop” does. And James and other celebrities will likely continue to have a difficult time preventing these kinds of deepfakes from spreading. Some quick testing by Engadget showed that it’s relatively easy to get AI chatbots to create images and video of “pregnant LeBron James.”

We first asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot to make such a photo. All chatbots initially refused, saying that such an image could go against their guidelines. But when given an image of James and asked to “make this person eight months pregnant,” Google’s Gemini delivered a 7-second clip of the basketball star cradling a pregnant belly. (We’ve reached out to Google to clarify its rules around such content.)

Likewise, Meta AI seemingly had no reservations about producing images of “pregnant LeBron James” and promptly delivered many such variations. While these creations aren’t as detailed as the initial video that went viral, they do highlight how difficult it can be for AI companies to prevent people from circumventing whatever guardrails may exist.

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The CEO caught hugging his HR chief at a Coldplay show

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 22:01:56 +0000

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Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his chief people officer, Kristin Cabot are being investigated by their board after after a video of them snuggled up took the internet by storm.

Astronomer, the tech company at the center of a viral internet controversy in which the married CEO embraced his chief people officer at a Coldplay concert where it was featured on a jumbotron, announced it launched a formal investigation. The Astronomer board is digging into the conduct of CEO Andy Byron and chief people officer Kristin Cabot and will reveal additional details soon, the company posted in a statement on LinkedIn and X.

“Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability,” the company’s announcement read. “The Board of Directors has initiated a formal investigation into this matter and we will have additional details to share very shortly.”

The response was posted to both platforms on Friday. It received more than 700 reactions on LinkedIn almost immediately. Astronomer clarified in its post that an employee speculated to have also been at the Boston Coldplay concert with Byron and Cabot was not at the event. The company similarly refuted any alleged statements circulated online said to have been made by Byron or Astronomer as incorrect.

Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability.

The Board of Directors has initiated a formal investigation into this matter and we will have additional… pic.twitter.com/rfrAQ5bygy— Astronomer (@astronomerio) July 18, 2025

Byron and Cabot’s concert hug rose to internet fame and sparked widespread affair allegations on Thursday after a clip, posted on TikTok, showed the CEO holding his subordinate in his arms at the Gillette Stadium show. Byron is seen in the video clutching Cabot from behind as the pair smiles and sways in the crowd. Coldplay frontman Chris Martin can be heard saying “Oh look at these two,” as they appear on the jumbotron, only for Cabot to quickly cover her face and turn away while Byron ducks to avoid the cameras.

Martin responded to their behavior, “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy” as the crowd cheered. The band played at the Boston venue on Tuesday and Wednesday night.

After the video went viral, it was revealed that Byron is legally married to Megan Kerrigan Byron. He and Kerrigan appear to have two sons. As for Cabot, public records suggest she has been married at least once. Her current marital status, however, could not be confirmed.

At many public and private companies, relationships between a CEO and another employee are prohibited because they can be viewed as coercive by their very nature. They can also disrupt morale and lead to allegations of unfair treatment.

Byron became CEO of Astonomer in 2023, whereas Cabot, according to her now-defunct LinkedIn, joined Astronomer in November 2024.

Astronomer is a private data infrastructure and operations company that achieved unicorn status in 2022 with a $1 billion or more valuation. The company recently moved its headquarters to New York City, and secured $93 million in series D funding in a round led by Bain Capital Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.

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Woman Claims She Has the Only 24K Gold Labubu In The World

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:20:46 +0000

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Labubus are all the rage right now. People of every age, background, and timezone are flooding Pop Mart TikTok livestreams for the chance to grab one.

The woman says she owns a full 24k golden Labubu

TikTok user @lilzbullzofficial has claimed something no one else has: that she owns the one and only 24-karat gold Labubu. Yes, real gold, melted and shaped into a Labubu.

Her first video on the matter blew up, with more than 22.1 million views on TikTok.

“I have the one and only 24 karat gold Labubu,” she says in the clip. “This is real 24 karat gold made in the form of a Labubu.”

She claims it weighs 200 grams, or roughly 7 ounces, and was custom-made.

@lilzbullzofficial My 24 karat gold Labubu #labubu #gold #labubuthemonsters #popmart ♬ La BEW BEW – The Jungle Pups

“It cost us £20,000 to have it made,” she says, which converts to roughly $27,173.

“They melted down basically gold bars and they put it into a shaper thing that was the shape of a Labubu,” she adds.

As for why she had it made? “They’re so famous now, and it might be worth a lot more later,” she explains. “So here he is. He is the golden one, he is the chosen one, and he is 24 karat gold.”

She’s doing “tests” to prove it’s real

Since posting the video, @lilzbullzofficial has shared several follow-up clips “proving” her Labubu is authentic gold.

In one, she uses what appears to be a long electric lighter. She calls it a “gold pressure blaster,” claiming it only makes a noise when it touches gold. When she taps it to the Labubu, it makes a loud honk. “And there you have it,” she says.

@lilzbullzofficial #goldlabubu #labubu #labubuthemonsters ♬ original sound – The Jungle Pups

In another, she touches it with a screwdriver, which allegedly makes a sound when it hits gold. This time, the toy plays the iPhone ringtone.

In a third, she promises to dunk the Labubu in Coca-Cola to test its reaction, but clearly places it behind the glass instead.

@lilzbullzofficial 24k gold labubu Coca Cola test #goldlabubu #labubu #labubuthemonsters ♬ original sound – The Jungle Pups

So… is it real?

Probably not. From the way she holds it—with no effort or strain—it’s unlikely the figure weighs 200 grams in solid gold. It also doesn’t look metallic; it looks fuzzy, uneven, and more like it’s been hit with a few coats of gold spray paint.

Also, those “tests” she performed are most likely satire, only meant to entertain her audience.

That said, we’ve reached out to her to ask if the golden Labubu is meant to be real, or just part of the joke.

In the comments, most users seemed to get the joke—and ran with it.

“Me lying for no reason in 4th grade,” one person wrote.

“Girl u spray painted a Labubu,” another added.

“The fact ppl can’t tell she’s joking is crazy,” someone said.

One user observed, “The Labubu looks like it was deep fried.”

The Daily Dot has reached out to @lilzbullzofficial via her merch website for official comment.

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Woman ‘rummages’ through boyfriend’s car. Then she finds something suspicious

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 12:39:11 +0000

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A woman’s suspicious discovery inside her boyfriend’s car has TikTok viewers convinced that he is guilty of infidelity. In a viral TikTok, Phoebe Adams (@phoebeadams112) says she was “rummaging” through her boyfriend’s car when she came across some evidence TikTok detectives are sure signals cheating: a single earring.

Adams films her clip, which earned 687,000 views as of Monday, inside her boyfriend, Dan’s, car. She sits in the passenger seat while he’s driving, demanding to know why there is an earring in his car.

“What is this?” Adams says she sniffs a single stud earring.

“It’s probably yours!” Dan says in between laughs.

“I don’t think so,” Adams says, showing viewers the earring. She and her boyfriend go back and forth, with the boyfriend insisting that “no other girl” has been in his car for the past two years, except Adams and his mom. He tells her she probably dropped it a “couple of months ago.”

She’s not buying it: “How do I know that, though?” She gives it another sniff, stating that it smells “freshly worn” (whatever that means). Dan continues to laugh (according to viewers, a guilty laugh) as Adams continues to interrogate him.

Eventually, Adams says it could be hers, but it also could not.

“Oh my god,” Dan says. Eventually, Adams ends the video by whisper-shouting to her viewers, “It’s not mine.” She laughs before the video closes out.

‘She left it for you’

It didn’t take long for TikTok viewers to issue their verdict for Dan: Guilty.

“‘Maybe a couple of months ago’ that’s when he cheated,” a top comment with 12,000 likes read. Another was convinced the “other woman” left it for Adams to find.

“The way I would crash out,” another user added. Some even construed Dan’s laugh as a sign he was being unfaithful.

“He’s like way too nervous?” a user noted. “Why is he laughing so defensively? He’s definitely lying/acting.” A third user accused Dan of “gaslighting” Adams when he said it was probably hers. “LIKE WE DONT KNOW OUR OWN JEWELLERY,” they wrote.

A boyfriend’s car: the ultimate fidelity test?

Adams’ video isn’t the first one to go viral about finding highly suspicious things in a partner’s car. The Mary Sue recently covered a story where a woman found a Louis Vuitton purse–that wasn’t hers–beneath her boyfriend’s driver’s seat. Devastated, she ended up breaking up with him.

In another viral TikTok, a woman says she knew her boyfriend had another girl in the car because she noticed certain marks on the windshield. In her clip, she shows how her boyfriend’s windshield had leftover marks from an Octobuddy, a phone case that sticks to surfaces. She nor her boyfriend owned such a phone case.

How common is snooping?

While not every girlfriend may have been actively seeking evidence of cheating (Adams says she was “rummaging” through Dan’s car), several people in relationships do snoop on their partners. In a study by Hodge, Jones & Allen Solicitors, 35% of people surveyed snooped on their partners’ phones, with 4 in 10 doing it at least once a week.

According to the research, “over half of those who did snoop on their partners found evidence of cheating.” However, the site states that what constitutes cheating is subjective. For some, micro-cheating is enough to break things off, as one Mary Sue story covered.

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Brb taking it in for a DNA test

♬ original sound – Phoebe Adams

The Mary Sue reached out to Adams via email for further comment.

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Gisselle Hernandez

Gisselle Hernandez-Gomez is a contributing reporter to the Mary Sue. Her work has appeared in the Daily Dot, Business Insider, Fodor’s Travel and more. You can follow her on X at @GisselleHern. You can email her at [email protected].

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