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2024/01/08

🔫 Blinded by a Nerf gun

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Monday January 8, 2024
Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Kira here. Welcome to today's edition of web_crawlr

Today's top stories are about: a woman who was blinded by a Nerf gun, a TikToker who shared an EMT's horrifying Hinge photo, George Santos' political job prospects, and a renter in danger of getting evicted because of her cat. 

After that, dig into Mikael's "One Dumb Conspiracy" column. 

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⚡ Today's top stories
🔫 VIRAL
"If you get gifted a Nerf Gun, do not shoot anyone in the face. Yesterday my sister shot me in the eye and blinded me instantly," a TikToker shared.
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🚑 YIKES
"If I called an ambulance and my EMT took his Hinge photo with my body and feet in the background, I would fucking riot," she shared on TikTok.
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🗳️ POLITICS
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🐈 WTF
A woman went viral on TikTok after seeking advice about how to deal with noise complaints that have pushed her to the brink of eviction.
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🔍 One Dumb Conspiracy 
By Mikael Thalen
Staff Reporter
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Conspiracy theorists think Bill Clinton visited the hospital to distract from Epstein docs
Conspiracy theorists are claiming that former President Bill Clinton admitted himself into the hospital last week in order to distract the public from his ties to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

In video footage that circulated late last week, a masked Clinton appears alongside his wife Hillary, shaking the hands of numerous medical professionals.

The day prior, hundreds of court documents related to Epstein were made public and detailed Clinton's relationship with the financier.

Clinton, conspiracy theorists surmised, had purposely faked an injury in order to escape to the hospital.

"Breaking News: After the Epstein Pervert List Dropped, Bill Clinton Pulls a Harvey Weinstein fake hurt scam…" one user wrote.

While Clinton's ties to Epstein have long been known, the documents did reveal that Epstein allegedly told one of his victims that the former president preferred his women "young."

"Now, all of a sudden, Bill Clinton is ill?" another user wrote. "How convenient."

Some even suggested that Clinton would soon fake his own death in order to disappear from the public eye.

Hillary, despite not being named in the documents, was also a target of conspiracy theories.

"Bill and Hilary Clinton's public health will begin to rapidly deteriorate," one QAnon promoter said.

There's just one problem: The footage isn't from last week. In fact, the video isn't even from last year.

The video was originally filmed in late 2021 when Clinton had left a hospital in California after being treated for an infection.

Posts spreading on X were soon hit with a Community Note label pointing out the video's origins.

In other words, Clinton didn't recently check himself in and then leave a hospital as part of some ploy related to Epstein.

Since the documents were released last week, conspiracy theorists have flooded X with misinformation in an apparent attempt to go viral.

Why it matters

This incident shows once again how conspiracy theorists can't help but churn out misinformation.

The allegations against Clinton, as well as his numerous trips on Epstein's private plane, are already concerning. Yet by spreading false claims, conspiracy theorists only help ensure that accurate information is drowned out.
🕸️ Crawling the web
Here is what else is happening across the 'net.
🚢 One TikToker set sail on the virtual seas of social media, capturing the imaginations of 322,900 viewers with her video about the food aboard a viral nine-month cruise.
📦 This worker went viral for refusing to ship her laptop back to a company via UPS after they laid her off, exclaiming "I am not paying for my own layoff." 
🍣 In a viral video, one TikToker says she was excited to visit a revolving sushi bar—only to be met with disappointment
💰 An Olive Garden server's table dined-and-dashed after racking up a $100 bill, and she feared she was going to have to pay for it out of pocket.
😁 If you're never quite sure what to say when a strange man approaches you and suddenly suggests that you smile, there's plenty of inspiration to be drawn from a recent video posted by a TikToker who just was not having that kind of foolishness over the holidays.
💄 A Dollar Tree customer revealed what to be on the lookout for when searching for name-brand beauty products at a steeply discounted price.
💵 A shopper went viral when she shared how she got Walgreens to honor a sale price at the cash register.
👶 From the Daily Dot archive: The many lives of the Dancing Baby, cyberspace's first cringe meme.
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👋 Before you go
In a trending video amassing over 197,600 views, TikTok user Drew (@drews.worldd) shares a concise guide on identifying undercover cop cars. He asserts, "I'm about to show you guys a couple of different ways that you can spot undercover cop cars."
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