Of Roaches and Raccoons
Also, Marvel's rinse and repeat, World Cup highs and lows, trending audios and more
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If you haven’t been keeping up with the Fantastic Four Twitter account, every week on Sunday, the account would post the same clip from the movie. After a whopping 75 times, this week it was finally interrupted, hinting at a new Doomsday trailer, which we finally got… and there were two very different kinds of reactions across the board. Marvel will also be presenting at Hall H this weekend at San Diego Comic Con, so there’s definitely more news to come.
In that vein, costumes from the movie were on display, and three different coloured robes were spotted on the Latvarian Witch figurine, hinting at a coven backing RDJ’s Doctor Doom.
Robert Pattinson’s “Get these BEGGARS out of here” line reading in The Odyssey is taking the internet by storm.
🐝 Bee 🐝@SavinTheBeesWhen I check out with $377.40 worth of groceries and the cashier asks if I want to donate a dollar for starving children7:39 PM · Jul 22, 2026 · 3.08M Views70 Replies · 4.11K Reposts · 63.1K LikesOne week until the new season of FX’s Adults comes out, preceded by a standalone episode centring around the character of Paul Baker. Catch up on season 1 if you haven’t already; it’s hilarious.
Trailer for Other Mommy dropped, with Jessica Chastain playing both a frazzled mother and her sinister doppelgänger haunting the family home. Arriving in cinemas on 9th October.
Blade Runner 2099 got its first teaser, starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer, it lands on Prime Video on 25th November.
Netflix’s Don’t Say Good Luck trailer is giving coming‑of‑age dramedy, starring Adam Sandler’s daughter, Sunny Sandler. Streaming on the 14th of August.
The Morning Show has confirmed it will end with its fifth and final season, premiering in 2027, closing the book on one of Apple TV+’s first flagship dramas starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston.
Poly-ticks
Spain won the World Cup, and of course Donald Trump tried to insert himself into the team’s celebration photos, only for the Spanish federation and even FIFA’s official channels to post images where he’s been cropped or edited out.
The World Cup half‑time show leaned hard on “love conquers all” messaging while being hosted during a time wrapped up in geopolitical tensions and ongoing conflicts, leaving the internet to point out (accurately) the dissonance of preaching unity while the same country is busy bombing other countries.
In India, Gen Z students are protesting under the banner of Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a movement that started as a satirical response to powerful figures calling activists “cockroaches” and has now become a very real youth‑led uprising against exam paper leaks, unemployment and institutional rot, drawing tear gas and violence from police amidst peaceful demonstrations and rightful demands across multiple cities. This video sums it all up rather neatly.
10 Downing Street’s revolving door of PMs adds a 7th one to the roster in a decade.
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Once again, the half-time show was also in talks for its actual purpose: the performances. Shakira brought the house down and Justin Bieber, after an introduction from Jason Sudeikis in character as Ted Lasso, brought the vibes down, with an acoustic performance of his ballad Hallelujah.
Ariana Grande’s new album, petal, releases in a week as she teases the first single.
Louis Tomlinson celebrated 16 years of One Direction on his Instagram Stories, listening to the band’s discography top to bottom.
Lizzy McAlpine announces new album, Angel, due 18th of September. The first single, The light in the painting is out already!
Olivia Rodrigo has partnered with 10 women-owned Etsy shops to co-design a handmade merch collection for her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival. The all women-artist festival takes place August 29th.
In other news
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is hosting premieres from Mexico to Shanghai, and Zendaya is method-dressing to the nines yet again.
Nic and Olandria of Love Island USA have broken up, with many speculating it was just a contract, post their popularity on the reality TV show.
La La Land’s 10-year anniversary is being marked with a poster retcon, where Ryan Gosling’s “La La Hand” has been fixed. Along with some unnecessary desaturation?
Kim Kardashian is launching a new energy drink and promoted it with a tongue-in-cheek joke about her inability to pass the bar exam.
Biohacker Bryan Johnson is back in the discourse with his latest experiment; he claims to have created a “clone” of himself as a newborn baby in order to test novel therapies and grow organs for transplantation, the cells of which are currently in a petri dish. Johnson already receives blood transfusions from his teenage son in pursuit of eternal youth.
Jimothy the raccoon is the new viral internet sensation from Seattle, Washington, known for his uniquely compressed, neckless shape caused by a rare congenital condition called short spine syndrome. Even Google joined in on cheering him on.
Betches@betchesluvthishaving a Jimothy summer (body positive, snacking nonstop and lurking)
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YouTube star Mr Beast got married.
Singer Matty Healy of The 1975 got married… a fortnight after Taylor Swift’s wedding…
OpenAI confirms that some of its models “went rogue” and started hacking another AI-based company in an “unprecedented cyber incident.”
Short form fun
Preparing for your very own niche Netflix documentary.
Reasons to get a bob trend, set to the song Freaked Out by Fat Papi.
The “I didn’t have a pen and paper” audio of Beyoncé talking about her song Partition’s recording process.
Girls listing expensive things that are worth the money.