From Stealing Crowns to Crashing Clouds to Catching Feelings
Vol. 2 Issue 39 – 26th October 2025
Love & Larceny in the Age of Outages
What’s not to Louvre about a heist?
On October 19th, four thieves pulled off what can only be described as the most cinematic heist of 2025: they stole €88 million worth of French Crown Jewels from the Louvre in broad daylight. The whole operation took eight minutes, with only four spent actually inside the museum. They used a cherry picker to reach the Apollo Gallery, donned yellow vests (because apparently looking like construction workers is the ultimate disguise), and wielded chainsaws to cut through display cases while tourists watched on.
The internet’s collective reaction was pure disbelief, how does someone just casually rob the Louvre in 2025? One of the suspects was caught trying to flee to Algeria at Charles de Gaulle Airport on October 25th, which honestly feels like the least smooth part of their otherwise flawless plan. The whole thing had the internet rooting for the crooks, hoping they get away with it. An image of a very fashionable man, standing with the police also had everyone hoping he’s the detective, but alas, he was just a random passerby. But that’s French style for you.
And if you’re suddenly craving more heist content: White Collar, Lupin, Money Heist, Ocean’s Eleven (and Ocean’s Twelve, and Ocean’s Thirteen, and Ocean’s 8), and The Italian Job are all perfect for scratching that “how did they even do that?” itch. Sometimes fiction feels more believable than reality.
When The Internet Actually Broke
Speaking of things that shouldn’t be possible in 2025: AWS (Amazon Web Services) went down for over seven hours on October 20th, taking half the internet with it. Snapchat, Fortnite, Ring doorbells, Robinhood, UK banks, everything just... stopped. The culprit? A DNS resolution failure that started with two pieces of automation trying to update the same thing at once. One overwrote the other with bad data, and suddenly millions of people couldn’t access their digital lives.
The outage lasted over 15 hours and affected over 17 million users across 3,000+ organizations. People genuinely didn’t know what to do with themselves. It’s wild how a single point of failure can remind us just how fragile our hyperconnected world actually is, with some users IOT-based smart beds also failing to work, leaving them inclined and overheated. Yikes, maybe some things don’t need to be connected to the internet?
Love Stories That Sound Too Good To Be True
Carly Rae Jepsen Got Married (And It Was Perfect)
Carly Rae Jepsen married music producer Cole M.G.N. on October 4th at NYC’s Chelsea Hotel.
Camila Mendes Is Engaged (Via Surprise Party Ambush)
Camila Mendes got engaged to Rudy Mancuso on October 24th, but plot twist, she thought she was going to a friend’s birthday party. Rudy proposed in front of their closest friends and family.
Callum Turner Reveals The Most Perfect Meet-Cute Ever
Callum Turner finally spilled how he met fiancée Dua Lipa, and it’s so perfectly rom-com that it hurts. They sat next to each other at drinks before a mutual friend’s birthday party, realised they were reading the same book (Trust by Hernán Díaz), and had just finished the exact same chapter. His line? “So we’re on the same page.” The internet collectively died. One viral response read: “This is literally out of fan fiction like are you KIDDING me?” Sometimes, real life really does write itself.
Lily Allen Drops an Album—and All the Truth Bombs
Lily Allen’s new album, West End Girl, is not pulling any punches. She’s putting her heartbreak right out there, hinting that David Harbour (yes, Stranger Things sheriff himself) cheated on her and openly addressing the complicated emotional fallout of their relationship. With lyrics that read more like WhatsApp receipts than pop verses, it’s the kind of modern confessional that feels totally at home in the oversharing era—candid, raw, sometimes messy, and impossible to ignore.
Malala Did The “Beez In The Trap” Trend With Jimmy Fallon
In the most unexpected collaboration of 2025, Malala did the viral “Beez in the Trap” x “What’s Up” TikTok trend with Jimmy Fallon during her press tour for Finding My Way.
She’s been on tour confirming she’s alive, 28, and married, because people genuinely think she’s either dead or an ancient historical figure. The woman literally has to reassure people she exists while doing TikTok trends. If that’s not a perfect metaphor for our times, I don’t know what is.
Hollywood’s Latest Controversies
Netflix’s “Famous Last Words” Raises Ethical Questions
Netflix launched Famous Last Words, a series where cultural icons record final interviews knowing they’ll only air posthumously. The first episode features Jane Goodall, and while it’s deeply moving, the concept is raising eyebrows. Are we commodifying death? Is this preservation or exploitation? The show promises to give important voices a final platform, but something about pre-recording your own obituary feels unsettling.
Amazon Prime Video’s Engagement Ring Disaster
Amazon Prime Video somehow thought it was okay to mock a woman’s engagement ring by comparing it to Jeremiah’s notoriously small ring from The Summer I Turned Pretty. The woman, Savannah Monroe, had just announced her engagement when Prime Video quote-tweeted her photo asking “Girl is there any chance your fiancé looks like this?” with a photo of Jeremiah’s proposal. The backlash was immediate and brutal, forcing Amazon to delete the tweet and apologise. The incident perfectly captures how brands think they can participate in online discourse but end up revealing how tone-deaf they really are.
Movies and TV Worth Your Time (Or Not)
High Potential: The Show You Should Be Watching
If you’re not watching High Potential on ABC/Disney, you’re missing out on Kaitlin Olson being absolutely brilliant as a single mom with an exceptional mind who helps solve crimes. It’s the perfect procedural for people who want something smart but not heavy. The show has that rare quality of being both entertaining and genuinely well-written.
Colleen Hoover’s “Regretting You” Bombs With Critics
Regretting You, the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation, debuted with a devastating 18% on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics are calling it “plodding,” “uninspired,” and “soggy”, harsher reviews than even It Ends With Us received. The film stars Allison Williams and McKenna Grace as a mother-daughter duo dealing with tragedy and betrayal, but reviewers say it’s just an overstuffed soap opera. Maybe the BookTok-to-screen pipeline isn’t as foolproof as publishers hoped.
Netflix Is Making A “Catan” Movie (Yes, Really)
Netflix secured the rights to develop Catan movies and TV series, marking the first time the beloved board game will come to life on screen. The projects will include live-action, animated, scripted, and unscripted formats because apparently we’re adapting everything now.
“Emily in Paris” Season 5: Now It’s “Emily in Rome”
Emily in Paris Season 5 drops December 18th, and surprise, Emily’s moved to Rome. The teaser shows her romance with Marcello heating up while she adjusts to running Agence Grateau’s Rome office. The trailer literally ends with “Emily in Rome” flashing on screen because subtlety is not this show’s strong suit. Sometimes you just need beautiful people in beautiful locations making questionable life choices.
Academy Gala Moments and Basketball Heroes
The Academy Museum Gala on October 18th brought out everyone who’s anyone in Hollywood. Newlyweds Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco made their first public appearance as a married couple, Penélope Cruz received the Icon Award, and Bruce Springsteen performed while receiving the inaugural Legacy Award. It was the kind of night where everyone looked impossibly glamorous and raised over $12 million for film preservation.
Meanwhile, Justin Herbert became the internet’s boyfriend of the year when he protected Madison Beer from a flying basketball at the Lakers game on October 24th. His lightning-fast reflexes kicked in, blocking the ball before it could hit her, and the moment went instantly viral.
Gen Alpha Slang Update: “Chopped” and “Unc”
If you’re feeling lost in conversations lately, here’s your crash course: “chopped” means ugly or unattractive, worse than “mid” on the attractiveness scale. “Unc” is what Gen Alpha calls anyone they consider old, old-fashioned, or out of touch. So if someone calls you “chopped unc,” you’re officially both ugly and ancient in their eyes. The terminology is brutal, but at least we’re all learning together, right?
The Takeaway
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, life throws something completely unexpected, a Louvre heist in broad daylight that has everyone on social media secretly rooting for the thieves to pull it off, or cheesy, celebrity meet-cutes There’s still genuine unpredictability out there, a romance sparked over matching book chapters, a football star saving his pop singer girlfriend from a stray basketball. The real world finds new ways to surprise us, sometimes with a wink, sometimes with a chainsaw.
But just as quickly, tech and media rear their dark side: Amazon silently decides when your doorbell works or, even weirder, if your bed will tuck you in at night. Netflix greenlights posthumous interviews, playing with mortality in the pursuit of new content, and the everyday threat of a cloud outage reminds us who’s really in control. There’s something very Black Mirror about it all. Absurd, sometimes sinister, and impossible to ignore.
This week proves the plot twists aren’t over. Life, be it sweet, surreal, or slightly scary, still knows how to keep us guessing.
Hyperlinked is back
I thought AWS went down cause all Indians were on Diwali break. Damn. You really burst my bubble