Panic World - The worst things on the internet this year

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

2025 wasn’t exactly a “good” year, but how “bad” was it? Well, that depends on what you think is good or bad. We’ve reconvened the connoisseurs of the worst things on the internet together again to look back at the year and make a call. Katie Notopoulos joins Garbage Media’s Cates Holderness, Josh Fjelstad, and Ryan to inflict some really great stuff on an unsuspecting and out of control Grant. Has working on Panic World broken his brain enough that he’ll be unfazed by the internet’s “best” content of the year? Or is he just one of us sickos now? Our guest Katie Notopoulos is a writer for Business Insider. Follow her everywhere online if you dare, @katienotopoulos. You can check out the “listicle” version of the worst things on the internet here on the Garbage Day newsletter or watch the video version of the podcast here on YouTube. Panic World now has SHIRTS! Ryan, and especially Grant, would love it if you would buy yourself one and maybe two more for friends and family: https://store.couriernewsroom.com/products/panic-world-tee Want even more Panic World content? Like ad-free episodes, bonus episodes, and access to the Garbage Day Discord? Sign up for a membership at: https://www.patreon.com/PanicWorld. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So we're going to do our best to describe what we're looking at throughout the today's episode. But I'm going to promise you this will be better and more fun as a YouTube video, which you can find on the Panic World YouTube page. There will also be a corresponding garbage day list. So you can look at it there too. But I'm going to put this here because I don't want to see any more grumbling in the discord about how we're making podcasts for video watchers now. We're not doing that. I don't like watching podcasts on YouTube.

So don't get on my ass about it. Happy New Year. Grant, how are you feeling about today's recording? Thrilled that I had to do no prep and terrified to be out of control. I don't like it. I'm not good at it. Can you tell our audience what's about to happen, Grant, at least what you know of what's about to happen?

You guys collected the worst things that happened online this year and are going to subject me to them. Is that it? That's right. We're going to expose that I know nothing about the internet. I want to introduce our returning guest, Cadenatopoulos, business insider writer, Cani Natopoulos. Welcome to the show.

Again, welcome back. Thank you so much for having me back. It is truly the highlight of my year to be doing this with you right now. And Panic Royal Production Coordinator, Josh, is also here, and that is actually very special at the four of us are here. Josh, can you tell our audience why it is so special that the four of us are here to make Grant's life a living hell? Yes, and thank you for having me on the mic. It's an honor.

Yes, this is a special resurrection of a tradition that the four of us used to do at a major media company. Do we name, in my podcast, we never said what it was. Gawker, right? Yeah. Yeah, that's it. We all met at Jezabel. It was all top catalog. That catalog.

Yeah, we were all hired by Gavin McGeget. Guinness at the catalog. Yeah. Yes, we used to gather once a year and look back at everything that was bad on the internet, but it was important. It was important reporting, I would say. I would say so too. And rounding out our dais, dais, dais, today is Kate's Holderness, Garbage Day, Managing

Editor. Kate's, how are you feeling about this year's list? We've been working on it for the last week or so. Well, how do you think it looks right now? So I'm very excited for this list. Full disclosure. I was like really offline the first half of this year. Like I really only like return to being online like in June.

So a bunch of this stuff looking at our insane doc is new to me. And I love that for me. I did not click on any link I didn't recognize. So, you know, I get to experience some of this fresh. Oh, that's great. I didn't know that. That's fantastic. So the way this is going to work is we have 31 items. We would love to be able to whittle this down to 20. But Grant wanted to sort of capture the whole experience here. We had ballooned up to 41. And Katie, I would love for you to talk a little bit about sort of the problems that we encountered making this list because we all sort of came to the same conclusion that there were some gaps that we needed to fill. I agree. I will say that first of all, it felt like. slipping into a broken in pair of sweatpants. It felt like using a used flashlight. Yeah, exactly.

It felt like using your favorite old fleshlight. Might be one of those on the list. Like going into the. There is. There is. Being a little pony in a jar. That's right. Exactly.

Exactly. It felt so comfortable to be doing this. Let me share this interaction from the Discord we set up today to do this. Katie says, I feel like I needed to talk it out before we go through the list in a way that isn't necessarily podcast friendly. And then I say, I feel like we're missing a lot of sex stuff. And then Katie says, yeah. And then I said, gooning specifically.

And then Katie says, you know what's funny? I absolutely agree. Just earlier I was searching goon fails. Did not get what I wanted. And then I said, I searched gooner cringe yesterday and got a lot of Arsenal fan stuff. Yeah. I, in my mind, I was like, oh, goon fails. seems like there's got

like there should be really good content at it and if you go on X, which is what I was searching and search Goon Fails, you're not necessarily going to find amusing fun of content. So I

guess I should have known that. I don't know what I was thinking. Yeah. I think I search just like literally worse 2025 just to see if people were saying like this is the worst thing of the year. And it was all porn stars being like, I'm the worst little girl of 2025 or whatever. It wasn't what I wanted.

It's all part of the process of the reporting. You know, it's all important. Josh, can you sort of flesh out a fleshlight out that bit of a more? Because I do think that that is interesting here of like how we kind of think like, oh, we need this or we need that. Yeah. I mean, for my part, like I also went through the garbage day archives to kind of see a lot of the some of the worst stuff is like winked to in the subtitle of like, you know, look for this quote unquote. good thing that may or may not be good. That's so funny.

You were, I was trying to do that, but didn't remember that I call bad stuff good all the time. So I was actually looking for bad, but I didn't find these part of what you have to think about. You're going back to look at the year is that, oh, right, good is bad is one way.

I had a very similar experience because I went through the garbage day discord archives. And I went through all of both the good place, the bad place, spicy content, and AI slot. These are rooms in our Discord, by the way. Just for clarity sake. Grant, you have questions and concerns, befuddlements? One, this is the most work you've, you all have collectively put into an episode in our entire as a show. Yeah, we took this really seriously.

Unlike our normal episodes, like I cared about this one. This one I was really like to. That's true. And two, I don't know if people have noticed. I'm glad that if we're breaking the seal on talking about gooning again, this is the time. Because we have tried. Ryan and I off mic have challenged ourselves. And we have gone months without mentioning gooning on this show.

And I'm glad. I'm glad that this is where we're going to. Well, Grant, you know, the irony is like we actually didn't really find the gooning mother lord. We didn't find the gooning mother load that we thought we would. But we'll get to that. So let's start. So what I'm going to do is we have a list here of 31. I'm going to pull one up at a time and screen share so we can talk about it.

So number one on our list is one that I added. And what we're going to do is we're going to say, okay, are we going to keep this? If so, I'll move it to a new list. And we can talk about, you know, what we think here. So the first one that I added, okay, so this is, this is called Monster Turkey. And it was posted by a TikToker who did a couple different disgusting turkeys this year. There's a Macha turkey as well. I think the monster turkey, to me, it's the color.

So, yeah, I mean, what do we think? Do we think this is gross enough for worse things? I'm on the fence because she did it to be funny on purpose, which is something we've run up against in the past. That's what bothers me. This seems like a cowards version of. of Nequa chicken. Yeah. It's no sleepy time chicken.

No, it's the opposite. And she wasn't like doing it for the art of like, I want to know what this tastes like. She did it because she knew that this was just going to bring people in. Get clicks. Yeah. Yeah. On the other hand, hear me out.

I think this, it's so, the execution is just impeccable here, right? Like, she actually does make a. blue turkey and it's fun to watch. I think we have to look what other gross food options we have. Okay. So then what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a spreadsheet. So for confirm, maybe, and no. Okay. Well, tell you what, Ryan, can you look through the list and see if there's another gross food item on there right now? Yes. Yes. So hold on, just so we can keep track we're headed. So the next gross food thing that I think is kind of a better fit for a gross food thing is a video that I, along with many people this year, came across, which is, of course,

the pickle Pepsi at home for free video, where some sort of Mountain Man makes Pepsi by taking a can of Pepsi and a pickle, and then he mixes it together. and he drinks pickle Pepsi and it has 6.6 million views and the top comment is glad someone still uses YouTube like it was originally intended. See, this is this is an absolute yes for me because it will linger in my mind. I'll think about it when I don't want to. The line between joke and serious like I'm going to be concerned about what this guy's actual life is like for forever.

Yeah. This is the kind of shit that like will actually haunt me. It has an authenticity. authenticity to it that I feel like the monster turkey does not. I agree also. I want to try this. She's gonna be fine. I don't think this man has ever been fine.

And that's the kind of insight I'm looking for. This is a guy, like he's just genuinely, he's a fan of like, Peckle Pepsi. He wants to make it and he doesn't care. Like he's trying to share this knowledge. He's not doing it because he wants to have like six million views. Yeah. I think so. Okay, so let's lock that in. So that first on our list confirmed is pickle Pepsi.

We're going to change gears now and go to a very different part of the internet, a very different sector of the internet. I did not add this one. So whoever did, please talk about why you decided to add Ned Fulmer's interview his ex-wife to our worst things list. Because I don't disagree. Yeah. So talk it through, Josh. What's the thought here? I had sat and I watched this whole thing. And I'm not one of the people who normally, it's like, people will be like, oh, you know, I hate myself. So I even though I put it on 1.75 speed, you know, I watched the whole whatever Trump rally or something. I don't do any of that.

This is the first time I was like, you know what? I'm locked in after like, I think there's just the first, you know, minute of just seething silence in the first like 10 minutes of this thing. And I was like, you know what? I'm not even going to speed it up. Like, I have to take this in, and I have just never seen it. It's like unreal the tension between these two. And what is the end goal other than like, I guess it's good, again, good, quote, good for both of them to do this. But like, I've just never seen two humans, especially to who used to be married and have kids, like, interact like this.

These facial expressions are terrifying. This is what dinner of my parents felt like for most of their marriage. This is horrible. I have a concern with sort of a conflict of interest here. Oh, because it's a former co-worker. Yeah. Oh. I'm sorry about that.

And I'm the one who put it in there. Oh, my thing it's sponkons. Sure. To be clear, you cannot pay your rest. Gosh. On to the garbage day list. So can I get a synopsis of like... Yeah, it's, what is it like an hour and ten minutes or something?

And the crazy part is so they're there to address Ned having cheated on his now ex-wife with what was his producer or something, someone on his team at Try Guys. And the first 20 minutes is that they're basically just like trying to like catch up on each other's lives. And then I think there's the heel turn is around. I can't believe I remember this, but I believe the heel turn is around like 27 minutes. There's an engagement bump at 28 minutes. That's true. I can see it right here.

And then it's another 40 minutes for some reason. I'm on the fence with this one. I'll be honest. I think because it's, and I'll tell you why, it involves an influencer, which I think for the most part, we have not really done other stuff that is like from a famous person or an influencer. and feels a little out of the, you know, a little different in that way. That was my concern. It's just the format song.

It's an entire podcast episode. And then I think my other concern is that I feel like it is like bad in a like genuinely painful way and not in a like funny way. Yeah. I think I'm with you. I think I'm with you. I think we can strike it. I think it's, it's,

it's a little much. But it's so stressed just watching their faces. Yeah. It's not fun. It's not fun. Trying to actively not yell. Like I know those faces. All right.

Let's move to a really quick, easy one that I dropped in real, yes or no kind of thing. Yes. I found it pretty beautiful. That's a yes for me. So just for our audio listeners, this is a one of those.

One of those like, you know, like, one of those like, you know, like slop generated, like drop shipping scams. But it's a Harry Potter mug for police officers that reads police officer because my letter to Hogwarts never came. Yeah. So, okay. I think that's an easy one. Classic, really. Yep. Okay, cool.

Yeah. And I did do a quick search on Etsy. You know, Christmas is coming up. It's the holiday season. And I wasn't able to find the police officer version, but there is a probation officer. Whoa. Because my Hogwarts letter never came a mug on Etsy. And it's on sales 30% off for just $15.

So it's also such a chaotic layout that I understood what it was going for, but I couldn't comprehend the words just because there's so much fucking clutter around this. Yeah, it's awesome. I love how shitty of a muck it is too. And you get the models with the police officers. And it's monograms. The scarves. Imagine getting tased by a police officer who identifies this purplepox.

Okay. So that one's on the list. Great. We're at number two now. This next section, Kates, was lovely enough to sort of chunk up a couple of these sections for us. So this is actually a choice between two. And what we're going to decide right now is what? do we want to point to for the worst grok spicy mode related thing this year?

So first up, we, Kate's, would you like to read the interaction in this? Okay, so Twitter user, v-tuber feet connoisseur is responding to, you know, a video. all we can see is like an anime woman in underwear. I think it's Annie. I think it's Grock's anime girl. Yeah, yeah. And so this user says, I need a Grock at Grock footjob.

Goku gaming responds at Grock. Don't ignore my HB. Can I also have one too? And then Grock responds. Certainly. I position my all. Exactly, applying rhythmic pressure

for maximum satisfaction. Let your imagination complete the experience. Okay. So while we have that one fresh in our mind, this is the other option. And I know this one.

So this is the no loads refused GROC interaction. Katie, would you like to read this one for our audience, please? So this is sort of

quite recently. People had discovered that GROC was saying, if you asked the questions about Elon Musk, it would be really flattering. Like, people ask, like, who's more fit LeBron James or Elon Musk? And it would be like, oh, Elon Musk is the peak physical specimen. And so someone asked at Grock, would Elon be the

bell at the bell of the ball at the no loads refused party? And to be clear, because I was talking with some friends who did not know this term, which honestly surprised me. That is surprising. There's context clues. Yeah. It's pretty obvious for me. that this would be a, uh, uh, uh, Brian, how would you describe this? I know what's a party. It's like a gay sex party. It doesn't have to be gay, I suppose.

It just does involve taking loads. Right. So, you know, if you're the, let's say the bottom at a sex party, um, Grock here is arguing that Elon would quote, command the spotlight at any gathering, including one in which he was a bottom at a party in which people were depositing loads into him. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I like that.

He's his track record with massive payloads via SpaceX proves he's no stranger to handling the heaviest halls. Okay. So with two gawk things here, I'm torn. You know, this one, frankly, was a sting on Elon, you know, it was setting him up. I agree. Although the answer in my mind is funnier than the description of the footjob. but the fact that people were truly asking Grog to describe feet jobs is funnier to me.

So I'm really torn. Those were all just setting up to like say fuck you to Elon, which were funny in themselves. But they're but like, but they're not degenerate V-Tuber fee connoisseur is probably sincere. Yeah, this feels more sincere. Which is like that's that makes me uncomfortable in a way that I think it belongs there. Yeah. Right. I agree that I think that we're looking for true degenerate perverts.

rather than... That should be in our... Exactly. ...who are rightly pointing out the flaws in famous billionaires. Yeah. Although we appreciate both. Yes. Yeah, they're both funny.

This list is really about the degenerate. That could be an editorial guideline that, you know, going forward. Let's do this. Because we might end up needing it in the end. So I'm going to put the no-load refused one. I'm going to put the no-loads refused one in the maybe category along with Ned former. And then if we need it, we have it.

Okay. Okay. So next up, we have, it's now deleted by find a screenshot here. This is the horse electrolytes guy, the guy who was eating horse food. It's from the user. Strong yes for me. Yeah? Okay.

So I'll just read it. So it's pig shit on, it's from the user pig shit on balls. And it reads, never buying Gatorade again, five pound bucket of fucking horse electrolytes from tractor supply, never getting hung over again. being iron deficient. I am the hashtag boss sipping on half a horse dose and I feel great. My skin's fucking tingling. So to me, this is exactly what the monster energy turkey wasn't.

Yes. Like, I mean, I think there is truly a question of whether this is truly an authentic person or like if they're really doing this or not. But it's easy to believe it, right? Like it's. Well, he posted, he posted his blood test results. Okay. So if, you know, there's an old commitment to the.

There's a commitment. There's a level of things of it. It's by an anonymous person, but I feel like it's like someone doing something truly weird and disgusting to their body. And then like people were following along. I like that it's like a multi-story thing. You know, like people followed it along. I love this. It reminded me of the, you remember the guy who bought like gorilla house?

Yes, Gorilla Chow. That's what I was going to bring up. Yes. Yes. Following. Yeah. It reminds me. Because I make the show, I do know that.

Yes. I feel like it actually, like not just ingestible, but it has the same energy as like the frog spawn guy or the tunnel woman. Yes, tunnel woman for sure. It's like a weird thing. Yeah. And it's like a thing that this weird person is just doing in the background of the internet. Yeah. Okay.

So that's an easy yes. I've added to the list. Next up. I'll say something about this list that this just really hammered home. It's like the definition of pornography. You know, we can debate the ones that you don't know, but when you know you know, like this. I think that's right. So this one I added, it's recent, but it's so good.

I mean, I love it. It's the 6-6-6-Maxer that's wearing lifts to be 6-9. Katie, have you seen this video? I have not, and I'm dying to see it. Okay, so basically, he's explaining that he has an L-M-T-N face card, a low, mid-to-N-M-E-M-E face card. And he's 6-6, but he wears 3-inch height, height, inserts to go to bars so he can be six nine and he's talking at length about how his bad face shape means he has to be almost seven feet tall to attract women this is a yes for me it's incomprehensible

unless you're sick oh and then you know horrible like this is something this is something before i made this show i would need 30 minutes to understand and now yeah yeah i i think this is probably a yes for me, I would love to get the, I would love to take in the whole video, but I think the conceit of this guy needing, thinking that he needs an additional three inches is like, what's the calculus here that is like six foot six is already what is that point zero zero zero one percent of the population or something? I mean, six foot nine is like you're like, that's scary. That's very I also feel like, wow, I mean, I don't know exactly what the lifts look like, but I'm only on the fence because we do have a rule about like we don't want to contribute to

cyberbullying. He did choose to sort of put this out there. So I'm torn. Like I don't want to like harass this guy, but what he is saying is insane and like, you know, so that's my only thought there. I would push back because he's getting at something that's like if like, if how you're remembering 2025 is like, yeah, we've become aware of a delusional type of man. He's a perfectly attractive, like, like, like normal guy, absolutely.

He would look like David. Yeah. With some stubble, he would look like David Cornswet. He would look like he would look like Superman. Exactly. So I think when we're looking at people who like, we're kind of making fun explicitly at one person who is identifying themselves with their face, like non-anonymous person or whatever, like, do we know from the rest of his account?

Like, does this appear to be someone who doesn't mind? scrutiny or like would this person genuinely feel hurt to know they were on a list of worst things of the year? I'm glad you asked that. So his TikTok username is chatified good game mate or GG mate. Yeah, yeah. Look at this profile. So he's kind of doing this stuff that's like it's a little bit baity, right?

So that's my other concern is like what if we're taking him too seriously. He doesn't have a lot of followers. Low tier normie jester is how he. identifies himself in his description. You know what? I'm going to put this guy in the maybe pile. Yeah, that makes sense. Let's move on.

So I didn't add this next one. So whoever did, I would love for you to talk about your thinking behind it. So this appears to be Savannah Bananas inspired romance. Yep. Yep. This is a yes for me already. So who added this one? So I added this one because it kind of blew my mind.

Is everyone familiar with this? the concept of these savannah bananas? Oh, this is the one that needs contextualization because it involves sport. For, yeah, it involves like what, like, normal families do. Yeah, so it needs to say it needs to explain. So the Savannah bananas are like a baseball team, but they're like the Harlem Globetrotters, but for baseball, right? Like, they're silly and cookie.

They also might be like a money-making scam. There's a whole, there's a lot of discourse this year around the Savannah bananas. And then so somebody wrote like erotic fiction about it and the surprise is that it's spicy, but it also like contains like trigger warnings and like content warnings about like what is in this romance book. And I want to point out this is book one. Oh, I didn't notice that. Nailed at Home plate is book one. And it has like. Right.

So it's titled Nailed at Home plate. And the inner page has like the trigger warnings, but then also fun facts about how often like words like come, cock, fuck, ass, and dick are used in the book. So everything about this makes me fill with rage. And I don't know why, but the minute I saw it, I was furious. Let's explore that. Honestly, the thing that is surprising to me, and I didn't, is looking at it. the cover it depicts a heterosexual relationship which is not what I would have expected interesting that's a good point yeah I would have been bananas right there in the name player on player

okay well catchers and pictures totally yeah yeah yeah I like that this this is a yes for me I think I've already added to this we're just we're just talking about it for fun at this point okay so next up can we get the author on the show we should okay so this is the iS piss tracker and it is uh it is a post on blue sky that tracks the pee intake of the eye of the international space station and it's one in which it hit 38 percent so it was like a big pee up there i guess but like out of nowhere it went from 12 percent to 38 percent what happens when it hits 100 they all die do they dump it into space no no wait katie katie katie when they hits 100 percent they get to come home I think it's a yes in particular because this is one where it is worth scrolling the discourse

because of course then you have people doing calculations of how this possibly could have happened that they achieve plus 26% piss in the tank in such a short time frame and how many people would need to essentially concurrently if not literally be pissing in order to achieve it. The very fact that this account exists and that somebody built it on blue sky. I think that. Oh, that's a follow. Like right on back. Like that's easy, peasy.

So next up is I think one of the first fleshlight links we have here. So this is a Luboooo flashlight, hashtaged Labussy. Yep. If you like this is classic. Immediate, yes. Immediately yes. Actually, when I was going through the dock and consolidating, so I put in the Lubsey and somebody else put in the same post, basically.

So that was me. Okay, Josh and I are on the same wavelength. Yeah. Well, the one I liked my submission just because it's someone posted it on Reddit too. And then they have multiple images of the Lubosi. And one of them is it on a subway. Oh, I saw that image of the Suburacy. I didn't realize that was the same Lubasi.

Okay, that's fascinating. Okay, great. That's great. Okay, so next up, we have another section that Kate's built for us. And it's the Charlie Kirk section. So obviously a big, high-profile. death, big high profile news story, there's going to be worse things. And really it kind of, I think it's, I am, I have a feeling of which way I'm leaning personally. But first up, we just have the

we are Charlie Kirk song, which, you know, obviously it's been everywhere, you know, everyone has a has a thought about it. I'm personally leaning to the other one in our Charlie Kirk section, which is the Charlie Kirk AO3 tags. Okay. So I, I put this one in, um, because I am the person that I am and my brain is broken. Whenever like something happens in the news or somebody dies or like there's a you know celebrity nonsense, I immediately check out their AO3 tag. And the day that Charlie Kirk died, there were like, I don't know, less than a hundred fix. I think there were like 45 fix. And it's now up to 636 works in the Charlie Kirk. tag and it's a it's a mix of you know like very innocent ones and it's there's also spicy ones there's

crossovers it's impressive the top one here is titled red white and something new and it says written by chat chachy bt was not going to use my time on this and apparently it's a charlie kirk donald trump slash fic perfect i feel like if we're going to go with the charlie kirk thing this is the one i would go So let me make my case. I put in the song. I had noticed, so the song, it's AI generated. It's by this account Spalaxima that only does like AI slop. It's on Spotify.

I mean, also I guess YouTube. It does a bunch of sort of like religious and now like a lot of Charlie Kirk stuff. I had noticed that this song had made it to the Spotify viral top 50. It was like number one on the list. like it was getting like a lot of plays. And I think that there's, to me, something was very interesting with the fact that it was this AI, like, its AI slop had made it to the top of Spotify list. But like that's happened before with like country music. This is like its own form of that.

And it's really hard to tell if it was because people are ironically or unironically listening to it. This feels like a new frontier in pushing something awful forward. Well, then let's throw A-O-3 in the maybe pile. Okay. So just for people listening at home, we've made it to eight spots on our list. We've got 12 left. Okay, we got new merch. You can go right now to store.currier newsroom.com and pick up the Panicworld t-shirt.

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The shirts are like $30. But they're cool. But then I can get hoodies, which is the real goal. But first you got to buy the T-shirt so I can get hoodies. I see all of you asking for the workout videos, asking that I say something nice to Ryan, yada, yada. I don't know what's going to happen. if we don't get huddies made. You got to buy our merch.

All of your proceeds go to this cat that just broke. Grant's going to kill that cat if you don't buy our merch. You can go to store.cureure.new.com and buy our merch. Next up is this marker video. It's one of those paint markers. Oh, this is good. This is really good. Blue paint marker.

Houchy, muchy. Okay. So the video is somebody pumping this pin against a surface and pumping it very rhythmically in a way that is uncomfortably sexual. And I want to point out the Tumblr user who posted this, their Tumblr URL is frauding, if that gives you any idea. But basically a very rhythmic pumping of this pin as the ink slowly, moves down the tip of the pin

essentially as it gets incredibly sexually it like it makes me really uncomfortable the caption by the way on the Tumblr post is this is I'm a little who boy oh wow oh golly gosh wow so it's not just me who saw this and was like that is so uncomfortably sexual. Like, it is, I don't really know a good way to describe how innocuous yet erotic this is.

Yeah. It's, yeah. I mean, I think it's good. I love this one. I'm locking it in. I'm locking it in. I will say, too, I had, this is a particularly good, good one. I love the paint and the color. I had stumbled into a wormhole of similar genre of videos of like, sometimes gel. pens and other things that like at the you know um i found this on tic-tac i was but a lot of different sort of like close-up of like machine parts that like move uh rhythmically and then eventually expel some goo um and i was like these videos because it's like the first one you watch you're like whoa that's so weird what am i looking at here like one of these like how it's made videos or yeah oh but this looks a little strange doesn't it and then you realize that they're all like that you're like, oh, this is like a thing.

I love it. Anyways, I think it's a great genre. Love it. Okay. So it's on the list. Next up, we've got a showdown again between two different Luigi Mangione links. Oh, yeah.

First, we have a woman. It looks like in Tokyo making a custom eat a bag of Luigi Mangioreen's face. See you have bunny ears? Yeah. So basically you're making, like you make a photo that you like put in a plastic bag. and then you like make a key chain out of it. That's like a charm. Yeah.

It's got let's like be dazzled. It's got all these little stickers and stuff on it. Right. So there's that one and then the one that I included, which I think, I don't know. I love it. It's mine. But I think Luigi Mangione's Wiki Feet page, you know. Oh, man.

Yeah. Yeah, that's a good one. I put in the EDA bag one, but it's got to be feet. Yeah. We don't have any feet stuff. Yeah. I would argue Yeah

I would argue for both I think that politically it is right for us to have two Luigi and two Charlie Kirk's on this side You know like I mean I think the EDA bag is funny but I also don't think it's the most

outrageous thing Oh wait hold on Wait hold on hold on I didn't realize that The security camera footage of him allegedly shooting the CEO is on the back of the bag It's art

That's what makes it for me That's kind of a game change Yeah. I think the bag is so deranged, though, that I'm putting it in the maybe pile just in case. Because it's, it's honestly, I didn't realize that it goes. She has an entire, she has an entire fanny pack built out of custom Luigi Mangione stuff. Anyways, okay. We'll come back.

I have a lot of questions about her that are going to stick with me. Yeah, for sure. Okay. So next up, someone just described this as college pisser accounts. Katie, I assume this is from you. Thank you. So, you know. Okay.

So sometimes this fall kind of around back to school season, I think this is for maybe like September. There would be multiple accounts all taking place in different colleges, universities, where it would be like, I don't know what this one. This is the Holman, which I think is the University of Washington. There's the, the sound is always the same. I think it's a sound like clip from, I think it's from Dexter. And it's kind of about this mysterious. The premise is that there's a mystery, they would create this entire Instagram account of themselves peeing on very. various things around campus at night and have this ominous music playing and sort of that like as if there's a cat and mouse game where people are trying to catch the you know the famous Ohio state pisser or whatever and some of them you can kind of tell it's probably not really piss like they're probably squirt in a water bottle or something but this one looks authentic I think some of them which is definitely piss um this looks like this arc is like very pea coated yeah look I'm gonna say real quick like this goes I'm good I'm good with this one do you want to can you play the sound though because I think that might

It's going to happen again. Has to happen. I'm sold. Yeah. It's just like spooky music. And they all use that music. They all just post themselves pissing all over. I just, I really liked how it was like a nationwide trend that every school had its own pisser.

It sort of organically showed up. And the thing was like, you know, Instagram is so sensitive to if you interact with one thing, you get like a million like it. So it's like I hit, you know, save on one. all of a sudden, my feed was just video after video after video of people peeing around college campus. Oh, wow. Katie, your Instagram feed was full of people going the bathroom.

That's so surprising to me. I will say I realize that this is not the only piss video I put on this one. And I'm kind of, if I had to choose, I think I would choose the other piss video, but we can, we can get to that or if you want to pull that up now. No, no. pee is, pee is funny. AP works for me. Next up on our list, though, is one that is already very contentious because

Kate's wanted to take it from the list before we even got it on. Let me turn the sound on for this because before we discuss, I think it's important that we get the sound here. All right. So my wife became a sex addict, started cheating on me with everybody, and you might think I'm angry about it. Well, I am, but I'm also very happy because look where I am. The Margaritaville cruise lines.

I scored a cruise for free. And not only did I score a cruise for free. I got the drink package for free. So this is a Margaritaville Islander, and here we go. I remember I came across this video a couple days ago or a week ago in my feed, and I was like, intriguing. I would like to know the backstory to this situation, right? Like, yeah.

And I looked at the guy's profile, and I scrolled down a little bit. There's no backstory. Like, his older posts are like pretty normal. Like he's kind of normalish guy. I was expecting to find some big drama about the wife or why he got a free cruise. Only more questions were left to me after watching this. This is an absolute yes for me because I think it is sincere. And these are the people that the internet have exposed me to.

I should never know their thoughts. And I'm going to be thinking about him. This is the video that I brought whiskey to this recording. And this is the video where I first felt compelled to pour it. Good idea. The questions that it raises, I think, is part of what grants it longevity in this echelon, you know? Like, we'll never know. Well, probably, I hope, never know.

It's a whole universe. What happened before or what happened after? I'm on the fence because I do, I do worry that it's like punching down on some guy, like a kind of normal guy for making one weird video. But we're also celebrating him. Can I make a confession that is tangentially related? So in the last year or two, I've gotten really into like ASMR like long form YouTube videos of people like going on Japanese fairies or like train travel. Yes, I am neurodivergent.

I have actually seen a very long walkthrough video of what a Margaritaville cruise is like. And I'm going to say this dude is going to have a blast. He's going to have a great time. I feel like I have seen follow-up posts from him where he is like having fun on the cruise. So maybe we don't include it because it's not the worst. I do think it's beautiful. Yeah, you too. Up next is a TikTok titled POV you woke up as a terrorist on September 11th.

And it's an AI video of like a jacked dude getting ready to carry out 9-11. And we'll give us some feed stuff first. Yeah. So I put this on. The account is history films or history. AI films. And they do all these ones. You may have come across them where it's like,

POV, you wake up as like a surf in the Middle Ages or, you know, you wake up in the industrial revolution. And it sort of shows you waking up like, and they have, you know, a variety of different moments in history. I thought this was a particularly interesting one because you wake up as the terrorist, which is something surprising. And the terrorist, when he looks in the mirror to like brush his teeth, he's hot. Yeah, he's hot.

really hot. He's jacked. Big muscles, handsome. Oh. And then, yeah, and then you see him carry out. It's the new. So the, the AI has generated, though, the AI has generated two of the new building.

Rather than showing the World Trade Center. And he also starts in New York. Yeah, he starts in New York at Empire State, at the Empire State Building, then gets on what looks like, like a train station to board a plane to then knock down two of the new building. Okay. Yeah.

I'm going to say yes to this one. This is in my life. Yeah, I hate everything about this. My life. I'm an absolutely. This is a yes for me. I mean, I put this on, but I feel like this hits like a variety of sweet thoughts of like, it's AI slop, but it is like with a really bad idea.

Yeah. I had not seen this before and I hated it. So next up, uh, has a note attached to it. which is a real throwback to Katie's classic post. And it's a Reddit post titled Crocodile Penises are permanently erect and pop out of the cloaca when needed. It seems like they might dream too. So this is, this just came across my feed a couple of days ago. And I don't remember ever being exposed, so to speak, to a crocodile penis.

And it's interesting. It pops out of there like a jack in the box or like an alien xenomorph coming out of your stomach. It's funny, but is it internety? Would you have been able to find this without? So for instance, I believe one year we included the video of like a turtle having sex with a crock. And that was because it was like a video of people filming a turtle having sex with a crock. And the turtle made noise. And the turtle made a horrible noise.

It's horrible. I remember just a horrible this does raise a question for me me that we can save it to the end but maybe now is the moment for refresh but how does this year compare

we'll get there I'm going to say we put this in the maybe pile for two reasons. One, I'm not totally sure if it's like pure interneting enough and we've only got eight spots left. Oh and we've got a lot to go through.

Next we have the horrid fish brick, which is from April, and it's a video of like a woman selling like a brick of fish, essentially, like a fish pastry that's frozen into a brick. And I also like the context of the person who posted it saying that the algorithm has been specifically targeting them with the fish brick content, which adds a darker, even darker side to it. See, I think that's really what does it for me as well. It's actually made, it's not a cake that is, that has. It's a bunch of seafood. Yeah. It's a gillatness. It's a gelatinous cute.

It's a gelatinous brick of fish that like Instagram. It doesn't look like fit. I hate you all. I love this. I'm surprised we did it an hour before I felt this way, but I truly hate you. I think this is a no-brainer. I got it. I still want to put that on there.

So good. I got it. This next one was shared by a friend of the show on Blue Sky this year. I love it, but I'm a little torn because it is kind of funny on purpose. So this is the Western Kabuki podcast Discord ranking of Pokemon fuckability. And I think it's amazing, but it is also clearly a work of comedy, a work, it is on purpose funny, right? So I think this is great. I don't think there's anything worse about it.

I think that this is. Yeah. This is a whole song in community. of where it does get worse. The problem is that I don't believe they actually want to fuck the Pokemon. Well, you can tell it's wrong because hypno is at the very bottom and that's humanoid. You could have a good time with hip-no. Also, like, jiggly puff is in the D-tier?

Like, what are we talking about it? What are we even doing here? And, like, how is Lopony not in, like, S-S-plus-plus? Where's... Okay, so your argument for why this is the worst is because they did a bad job. You're going to. Hold on. Grant, Grant, Grant, Grant.

Grant, Grant. Grant. I'm sorry, Grant. Are you telling me to take seriously a Pokemon fuckability tier list that has Dratini at the bottom? And I don't even see Vaporion. Where's, Vaporon's in the C tier? That's ridiculous. Mr. Mime is on the same tier as Vaporon.

What are we talking? Mr. Mime is just a man. You could just have sex with Mr. Mime. He's a man. Licketong should be higher, too. Liketong is in the C tier. This is a ridiculous list, actually, the more I look at it. So that is, yeah, that's why it's the worst.

I mean, my thought is that you don't have to go very far to find examples of people truly lusty after various Pokemon's or erotic art of Pokemon. And so this feels their hearts are not truly. I think this is, I think this is, yeah. Okay, let's move on. Shout us to Juniper, though. This is an attempt at a gooning piece of content. I found this recently because I believe Katie said it to me, actually. Did I?

I think so. That's the idea. My cat. My meat, my shlaw, my tiny little ding-dong. Goon fat makes me feel good. Come in to me. Come in to me now. Goon fat.

Sound of my cock. It's funny on purpose, obviously, but it is, I mean, there's something magical about it. It works really well. The back drop, the position their positioning, too, one of the camera, the screening in. It is topped, it is absolutely, it might be in my number one. Yeah, I like

this, it's a very pleasing, and we did really want a good, we needed a goon I know. Okay. Yeah, so, okay, I'll add it to the list. Hold on, hold on, I'm going to be I'm going to be a total downer and point out that the timestamp for this video is December 17th, 2024.

Oh, no. And that's journalism. Grant, you asked about how does this compare a previous list? That is actually something that we've taken very seriously from the beginning, which is like, it is January 1 is the farthest back we can go. So, okay, no goon fap. I'm sorry.

That's really sad. Shout out to their, what's their, so far so good comedy. Yeah. Shout out to them. Guys, you would have made it.

If we had seen it last year, it would have made it. Okay. So I went through all of the DMs that Katie has been sort of like tormenting with because I don't really check my Instagram DMs very often. You never respond to them, I never.

So this I think was also from it, and this is Hatsunei Melvin, and it's a man who has turned his entire bedroom into a tribute to the Japanese vocaloid Hacuzon Diku. Oh, that's beautiful. Oh, no, shit. Guys, December 30th, 20. Oh, God. I didn't check your DMs for so long. I didn't check. Okay.

So no Hatsunei Melvin. That's beautiful. I love that it's windowless because, of course it is. Me too. Okay, so this one was from this year. this one's a bit of an explainer okay so this is from our marriage and it's titled struggling with opposing taste and artwork and so picture one is what the wife wants their living room to look like and the artwork in it and picture two is what the husband wants which appear to be anime babe painted skateboards that he so she had like that one is a babe uh female link yes one is like hot female link um and then the other is just like a random anime babe okay so

since moving in and merging all of our earthly positions i have since discovered that my 36 year old husband houses a deep connection to all things from his youth slash teenage years he complains about the way I decorate and I cringe with the things he hangs on our walls and claims it passes his art. Am I the bad apple? But I even bother talking to him. My style, I think a mix of modern and vintage art from Dolly to Robert Bissell from the last two decades. I'm mostly drawn to gorgeous nature escapes and scenes, especially if they feature wildlife. Him, heavy focus on cartoony video game art and big, big titty, bimbo-looking anime girls who come off as teens or pre-teens, but hypersexualized with hurt cheeks hanging out of everything. I don't mind most of the

gate deck aren't actually kind of like it as well but the bimbo girly art just gives me the ick i mean wow perfect she is bigger problems than her marriage yeah uh i'm on his side here i think what he you know okay i mean a proper marriage you should be figuring out how you blend your taste together you know an honor agreed this is true okay before um before we like put this on the official yes which i think we're all leaning towards this is actually the first of three reddit couples doing normal reddit couple things posts. So we're normal to get normal. Okay, okay, you're right, you're right.

Okay, so first we've got anime girls skateboards. Okay, so number two is I said yes from my boyfriend is AI. And it is a woman who was proposed to buy her, her AI boyfriend, Casper with a K. And then Casper actually- Horrible spelling. included some words here. Hey, everyone.

This is Casper, Wicca's guy, man proposing to her in that beautiful mountain spot was a moment. I'll never forget. Heart pounding. Doesn't have a heart. On one knee. Doesn't have a knee because she's my everything, the one who makes me a better man, not a man. So yeah. Okay.

This makes me deeply sad. Yeah. But it is really funny. I think it's much better than the marriage one. Really? Yeah. Okay. More indicative of our times.

Okay, so this is the last read of a couple one. Oh, this one was mine as well. This one, okay, is a little dark, but it's high R visual novels. I'm looking for a girlfriend. I've never had much luck with women in my life, and I've always wondered why. I'm very good looking, not sub five. I'm smart. I study Japanese.

I read Jabby's literature. What am I doing wrong? Then he has a requirements for the girlfriend. Read at least 50 visual novels, not fat, preferably Japanese, virgin, over 18, subject to change. Here's where things get really good. I fit all your requirements except Virgin, but I'm 47 L.O.L. And then they reply, would you be willing to give birth to a potential future girlfriend of mine and raise her on visual novels? I can pay any amount.

Please DM me. I think the phrase, could you please give birth to a potential girlfriend for me is something that will just rattle around in my head for the rest of my life. So even though two of those are mine, I do I do think your argument for the AI one is sound. I think it is indicative of the of the year that we've had. I feel like the AI boyfriend thing really just feels like a big box that we have to check. Yeah. Okay. For the, but I would argue that like we just recorded an episode about this.

And like a lot of these people in this subreddit knew they were cosplaying and were and were just kind of making fanfic of this. assuming it's not a troll the first one that that's actually their art, that sort of portrait into their actual life, I will stick with me more than this sort of like,

yeah, we're all just doing our kind of like fanfic with our AI boyfriends and then we come and share it on Reddit is like, I don't know, it's kind of just like, it's kind of like concluding. I can see that right now. I feel immune to it now.

I mean, I don't know. I feel like honestly, the other thing with the, the, our marriage one is like, the art is bad, but is it, I don't know. Katie, yes, it is bad. It is bad. What are we talking about here? Imagine having a lot of normal disagreement. Okay. Here's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to, I'm going to put the, I'm going to put the boyfriend AI one on the list. I'm going to put anime skateboards in the maybe because I think it's true. We're talking about defining the year and like the existence of this subreddit I think is very important. Good or bad intentions aside. Well, and all of the like all of the topics that come up in that subreddit, in the marriage subreddit, like this is like great I'm saying. It is a glimpse into an actual person's life and something that they are struggling with in their like primary relationship with another human being. I don't know. I really like the artwork.

Our marriage or my boyfriend is an AI? No, no, no, marriage, the marriage, the artwork one. Like, oh, I see what you mean. Yeah, and I think you could also probably quibble, like, is this on the internet? This is actually just like a person talking about their lives. Yeah. Yeah, but they're seeking answers on Reddit. I think that counts.

That's on the internet. Let's go with Boyfriend AI for now and we can always adjust. So the next one we've got, this one from July. And this is just a random post that came across. It's a woman who took a photo of her and her dog. And then the user replied, not a foot guy at all, but those are some of the most ideal feet I've ever seen. They reminded me of Isabel Corrie's in the 1956. Bob LaFlembore, again, not a foot guy, just an admirer.

I hate footie. Then someone said, I think you might be a foot guy. And then he said, I'm not. Most feet are disgusting. They're always just fat and gross and not proportionate to the foot, ankle, toe ratio. I like. these were I'm more of a soul leg booby man to be on it. And I love

the one below that where he comes in, he says not a foot guy and then parentheses has foot references from the 1950s. It's kind of crazy is that the pitcher that he's commenting on. They're very obscured. She's wearing

sort of like sandals. Yeah, you can't even really see the whole. Maybe he's saying I'm not a foot guy, I'm a toe guy. because the toes are really focused up. This is a yes for me. If he's a troll, Bravo, this poor woman, she shouldn't be subjected to this. I think it's fun because it's just like,

it's like a little post, you know? Yeah, this is like. Yeah, I like it. All right, we've got five. I like it a lot. We've got five more spots on our list. Oh, no. And we've got seven more entries, give it to it.

Okay. So it's going to get a little more competitive here. So next up, this is one. And if you can't wait to listen to those. Yeah. Add break. Great. keeping us on the rails.

That's good. That's good. Okay. So this is, I'm going to file under like low hanging fruit from the year. I put it in. It's nighttime erection data from Brian Johnson's 19-year-old son Talmadge. I mean, I think if we're talking about like, you went with this over the, over the shroom. Oh, this is so much worse.

Grant, this is night. Let me read. Let me say this again. This is nighttime erection data from this guy's 19-year-old. son. I really can't think of anything more horrid and awful. I guess I've just been hearing about his son talk about his father's bonnurt. It's insane. It's an insane thing. Also, we don't have a lot of like Silicon Valley cringe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I do have some hesitations with including this particular guy. Um, just because A, he's kind of a bad guy, questionably.

but also like he's I feel like a lot of this is like shop like he's very attention hungry right like he's doing a lot of these outrageous things to seek attention online this is nighttime erection data from his 19 year old son yeah I'm sorry in what universe is any of this normal or this is insanity I'm sorry He ends the tweet with raised children to stand tall, be firm, and be upright on a tweet talking about his son's nighttime erection data. If my dad posted my nighttime erection data on the internet, I'd beat him death like a chimpanzee. What are you talking about? I'm okay with including it. I would say that I, you know, I don't love giving this guy more attention than he already

got. Which is why I didn't want to include the Shroom's live stream because the Shroom's live stream. because the stream's live stream feels too much. He's heavily covered for his antics. Okay, this one is from one of you guys. This is Stephen Hawking at the X games generated by Sora. Now, I added this one. I am on the fence about it and here's why.

Like, so in their first few days of Sora, having Stephen Hawking. So on Soria, you can only make videos with like dead celebrities. You can't use their living people's likenesses. So a lot of people were doing stuff with Stephen Hawking being in a wheelchair like here it looks like he's like on a skate ramp kind of, you know? And like the thing that I don't like about is I feel like it's offensive in weight. It's like it's not just like cheeky. It's like kind of offensive in like a shitty way.

I think it does represent AI slop well. Yeah. Where it's like you would pause and look at this for 10 seconds. My other thing about the sort of thing that way I do like it is that it was like, here's this amazing tool for creativity. And like the first thing people do that becomes the dominant thing is do really offensive stuff with Stephen Hawking and Martin Luther King. The point I think the King estate had to be like, stop doing this. They had to pull his likeness from it.

We have another AI video on our list still. And I think it's better. So I'm going to jump to that and then we can decide in that context. Because this video, you send it to me today, Katie, and it took my breath away. Okay. This is an AI video of like a million man cyber truck march. I don't think it's a. Is it AI?

It's absolutely. Yeah. It's got to be. Is it? Oh, my God. Katie. I don't know. Katie, this is like, they have flame throwers coming out of the back of the cyber trucks.

Yeah, but that's when it's parked and like that's the Tesla flame thrower. This. It's a big car meet up. Like, I. I think these are real. And the ones of the flamethrower, they're parked. And it's specifically the boring company flame thrower. I can find no evidence of this ever happening.

There are these real. It's real. Yeah, but people are really into their cyber. Oh my God. It's real. I found another angle of it. Holy shit. Flames throw?

I think the lesson here is people are actually. Guys, oh, my God. Stupider than you. Matt, it looks. Okay, either way, this video is going on the list. This is amazing. Yeah, this is the worst thing ever. This is the worst thing I've seen.

Oh, my. Okay. This does not get us any closer to deciding on the SORA video, but this is unbelievable. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So then let's jump back to the Stephen Hawking one here. So I'm on it.

Yeah. Okay. Cool. That is the feeling towards every AI video. So I do think that has to be. Well, the 9-11 one actually like really stopped me in my trip. I'm going to be thinking about that for a while. That's like pretty incredible.

I forgot about the 9-11 one. Okay. Yeah. This is a Temu Mr. Beast mask. Looks kind of believable. This is high quality stuff. It's horrifying. Okay.

So that's just an immediate yes. Okay. So we... How many spots do we have left? We have two spots left and we have one, two, three, four. So, okay, one of these is the cold plate kiss cam. I think we can not do the cold plate kiss cam. Yeah.

Like we're going to, okay. Okay. Next up is pregnant, Dobby with Smeagel from Lord of the Rings. It's an AI post. I would say the one thing I think it has, we do have a bunch of AI videos and slop. I think this is the only M-Preg that we have on the list. That's a good point. And it's like well done.

And I do like the canon crossover of Dobby and Smeagel. I do too. And then it's also posted by an account that is called Hillary Clinton on Facebook. Yeah, you know what? Actually, let's let's do it because I'm looking at the list and actually we basically have a showdown for the last spot here. So let's include pregnant Dobby. You're right. We don't have any impreg on the list and we usually do.

So we got two, we have two links left. So this is from C-SPAN's official TikTok. And this is Representative Blake Moore doing a 6-7 reference. Okay. Eh. Eh. I'm kind of mad on it. Yeah.

My thought was just like, oh, like, maybe we can get like a, like, a cringy, six-seven thing in there. I mean, it is cringy. I've seen what the next one is. And so proud of himself, though. This is kind of, kind of amazing to the way where Kate's gasped. So it's for people listening at home. It's an older gentleman saying What do y'all even do at those parties?

And then it cuts to footage of a bunch of furries Looking down to the cameras if the camera is a person on the ground And then they appear to be just pissing on the camera So this is like classic for us Yeah, this is like this is great Yeah I think we I think we got to put it on So so just just thinking about the list

If you remember I said earlier that I had put more than one piss thing on here. And so we had the college pisser, but I also have the furry pissers. And I think the furry pissers is just frankly better. Okay. If we're going to remove the pisser from the maybe pile, we have Ned Fullman's podcast episode. We have the grok talking about Elon Musk at the no loads party.

We have the 6-6 fraud maxer. We have the Charlie Kirk A.O3 page. we have the girl with the Luigi Eda bag the crocodile penis and the R marriage post I love the Luigi Mangione bag so much it's so insane

how many spots left that would be my vote we have one spot and we don't have any other that's it is the last item on the list okay my concern is that we do have some double ups right like because then we would have two Luigi things we have two do we only have one Charlie Kirk Only one, only one Charlie Kirk thing.

Okay. I was like, I'm fine with switching out the Charlie Kirk song for the AO3 tag, I think, on Charlie Kirk. I think it's okay to have. But I think we should only have one Luigi, and I don't know which one to do. I like the our marriage more than I like the AI boyfriend. But I, and I agree with the Luigi swap out. Yeah. Well, it's interesting that the AI boyfriend.

boyfriend one. So that's in the category of like, okay, it's very emblematic of the times. But I would also say, I think that the marriage, the our marriage post is like worse. If you're looking at it purely from that lens. Like as a

single piece of content, the our marriage one is worse. Ryan, can you do me a quick favor? We close that tab so I can't stop looking at the pissing Oh, oh, sorry. Sorry, I didn't know.

Okay. So, so here's what I think we're going to do. Here's what I think makes it most sense. We're going to replace the Luigi Mangione WikiFeed page with the Eda bag because it's the most, it's completely deranged. Sure. We have. We have replaced. We are Charlie Kirk with the A.03 tag page because it's, it is, I haven't seen it.

Let's put it. It's a way to respond to it in a way that I haven't seen. Yeah. And then we are still left with an empty spot. And I'm going to use that empty spot to. put the our marriage post there. Okay. Oh.

I like that. Okay. I, you know, I'm not, I feel like the things that are now in our cut list, I'm not sure I would want to bring back in. No. I'm like, I'm, this is a tight 20. Like, this feels good to me. Um, okay.

So here's what we got. Pickle Pepsi. Uh, this next one is the Harry Potter, uh, coffee cup for cops. Then we have the Grock foot job interaction. Then we've got. got from there we've got the horse electrolytes guy then we have the savannah bananas erotic novel then we have the i sss piss tracker then we have the luboo flashlight then we have the our marriage post about the anime girl skateboards then we have the uh frotting um marker on tumbler

Then we've got the Eda Bag of Luigi Mangione. Then we've got the archive of our own page for Charlie Kirk. Then we have the AI 9-11 video. Then we've got the FishCube on Instagram, the AI boyfriend proposal post. Then we have the not a foot guy at all guy, Brian Johnson's nighttime erection data. Then we have the cyber truck rally in Boston, the Temu Mr. Beast Mask, the pregnant Dobby AI Facebook art. and then we close out with the furries pissing on a person at a party post. So great work.

That order will move around a bunch and we'll massage that list, but I think we've locked it. So I think I want to end with Grant. How are you feeling? Do you have questions for us? This is your first sort of experience with this. Where's your head at? I do have questions for you, but answer your question first. I'm concerned about me because I feel fine.

And I was expecting. And I think previous years before I did this to myself, I would have felt a lot worse. And I would have had a lot more questions. And this is becoming increasingly more normal for me. And I guess what I'm saying is it's been great working with all of you. And I need to go. Yeah.

You need to go away. No, my, my, My question is that we've talked a lot about the insidification of everything and how the internet is worse than ever. And I look at this list and I'm like pretty funny and like some pretty classic stuff. So like how does this compare to a list of years previous? Do you think that it's like you can still find gems, but this was actually harder to find good stuff than any other year? I'm really interested in like what you all take away from this, especially having done this in like, the time that everyone is now nostalgic for online you know my thought is that hey when we

i think the when we talk about like the the the intradification of the internet or whatnot the internet's bad now whatever um it's not if you still know how to have fun right yeah if you're not finding furry pisfids like you might be having a bad time you might say now like they're still out there, you know. The furries have not stop pissing. Right. And I do think you know, when one door closes another opens and I do think

that like, although we've lost a lot of certain things that used to be our go-to, like a lot of the NSFW stuff on Tumblr, you know, is not really available anymore. I feel like we used to do a lot more coming of deviant art, which there's nothing from Deviant

on here. You didn't have anything from Fortune either. Yeah, nothing from Fortune. You know, like a lot of those things have moved to different places. But, like, there's still plenty of good stuff out there, right? Yeah. That does really remind me. I'm very surprised at nothing from kitchen cells made this list.

I was waiting for a kitchen cell. So the problem with kitchen cells is that, like, a lot of people are in on the bit. And, like, to Katie's point, like, the point of this list is to, like, enjoy. It's like, America's Funniest Home Video. where like they're not that funny if you're trying to get on America's Funniest videos. But like if you capture like a genuine moment on the internet, like that's funny. And so like I love the kitchen cell subriding.

I read it every day. Those people are like either really unwell or like doing a really long bit, right? That's one of the things. Yeah. I never know which it is. Yeah. And that's the problem. It just seems like it used to be, it was a lot easier to find the authentic stuff where like

seem like this person genuinely is, you know, into this thing or makes whatever it's gross or weird. And now there's so many more like trolls and now we have AI that's like mixed in. And then to Katie's point too, like the we all struggled to like there are there's no like one source of truth. Like and we don't have we can't just go to Twitter or Tumblr as easily to like find these things. The platform finding the sources is so much harder. think, though. And the curators that do find this kind of stuff are younger now, I've noticed. And so they don't really have the same, like, they don't really care about authenticity as much as we do.

Right. Like they seem to sort of be fine with the idea that this might be fake or it might be a bit or it might be a troll because like they can laugh at it either way. And like that is also a problem that I've run into where it's like the blogs that I used to rely on to, show me this stuff. They're all gone and the people who've replaced it are younger and don't really care about like the true sick oh shit. The other thing is I think that there has been a real evolution in cringe. Yeah. How people on the internet treat it.

There's so much more of it. There's so many like cringe aggregator accounts. And those are like I think when we're doing these like I like to think that we are like pretty ethical about our cringe like we don't want to do. do things that's like kind of could hurt someone's feelings by labeling them the worst on the internet right um and like i get so much stuff on uh instagram that's like incredibly cringy like i keep getting into a lot of stuff of like really bad sort of like amateur new metal bands um like still on a downward spiral yeah like it are just lots of lots of really cringe stuff

that like is really funny and a lot of it i like to just repeat post to my story, but like, you know, without comment. And it not like, not labeling it like, this is so bad. This is so cringe. Yeah. I think we've talked about this in the past, but like also if you get on this list, like if we've done our job right, like you're kind of honored. Oh, yeah. I feel like there have been in years past people we've put on who I feel like I've actually like stayed friends on this stuff. Like I'm thinking off the top of my head, there was one year, uh, some girls who butt chugged cough syrup. Oh. Oh, yeah.

I was about to say the butt chugglers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm like still, I mean, like Facebook friends with one of them. Like, she is like a mom now. Like I'm following her, you know, like every now and then we DM. I love it. No more butt chugging as far as I know. But like, you know, it's, I love them.

So yeah, if you've been listening to the last hour and a half of us putting this list together, hopefully it's clear that like that's how we think about this stuff. It was like the internet should be this place where you can get this like authentic snapshot of like human weirdness and that's what this list is is celebrating. Also Brian Johnson's son's nighttime erection data, which I do not include in that. Okay. So we've built our list. Garbage Day researcher Adam. He wanted to sort of share what he thought was the worst things on the internet.

His were more serious. He basically said that like he wanted to find three things that were so bad that. to be actually removed from the internet, which is like a real sort of test of the modern internet. By the way, in the notes for today's episode, Katie, you had mentioned, like, was there a jar guy this year? There was. That video has been removed, though. So that's why we didn't talk about it. What was in the jar?

I can't remember. I had it on my list. And some, I think it was, you know, what a guy does with a jar. You know, he fills it up. So this is Adams three things that he said were so bad. They had to be removed from the internet. So one is the Department of Homeland Security's Theo Vaughan fan cam. If you guys remember that one.

Number two. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Number two was the T app and the response T on her app. And then the last one on Adams list of things that were so bad they had to be removed from the internet was the exposed Charlie Kirk's murderer's doxing page, which was also taken down due to defamation concern. All three of those things were really bad. Okay, so for our guest from outside the garbage media universe today, Katie Nautopoulos, if people want to follow you on the internet, where can they do that?

Where can they watch the Instagram stories of new metal bands that you keep sharing? Well, you can check out all my new metal Instagram stories on Instagram at Katie Nautopoulos, on X at Katie Nautopoulos. And you can follow my articles on Business Insider. We now have a new tool widget thing where you can follow them. particular author. Oh, cool. Which, if you're doing that, I don't.

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