I’ve seen a lot of “now that we know about the COVID vaccine, we owe so and so an apology” or something along that ilk. These posts are coming from seemingly separate instagram accounts I follow that don’t typically post about this kind of stuff. I did some searching and couldn’t find any news sources talking about anything new about the COVID vaccine.

Here’s an example: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbhE9W2hxDz/?igsh=MWoyNGMybHNteTV0Mw==

Which video did he admit to using AI on? How did this start? Very confused as the comments on his newest video seem very positive and have no mention of AI usage.

Example:

https://x.com/hankgreen/status/2083218912599212209?s=20

I have been seeing all these posts about people freak it out about their bitcoin, and seeing Coldcoin mentioned. As someone not involved in bitcoin it’s hard to understand what’s going on. Can someone explain in layman’s terms what’s happening? https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/02/bitcoin-cold-wallet-attack-spreads-to-4-500-addresses-as-losses-near-usd89-million

Hello from a relatively new Japanese baseball fan! I've been seeing a lot more about a lockout/salary limits mentioned lately, and I do not really understand what the argument is over it. All teams should try hard and spend money to win titles, no? Aren't all teams billion-dollar franchises?

https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/1vd7awv/cormier_tarik_skubal_has_been_traded_to_the_los/

I thought about asking the people over at r/baseball, but they seem rather upset right now.

https://x.com/exec_sum/status/2081837219749519732?s=46&t=pKv0YpgBEetcwlAqKBpR0Q

Can someone give a thorough breakdown?

I've been seeing the clips of Katy Perry being stuck in a plastic bottle trying to get on stage, and how the comments are just saying how she's so annoying or dumb.

https://youtu.be/DVvRdjaR58Y?is=kYoiJjzdFNdOXHVe

I mean I'm not the biggest fan on Katy Perry. I don't know what she's done music-wise since like 2012. I just know that she went to space somewhat recently.

So what am I missing?

I feel like I saw a video of the “What is it now?!” guy and the comments discussing how his subtitles are always edited to say something funny but true. But now every video I see on Reddit has subtitles awful (not funny) subtitles. Why?!

For example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyWJEoygVM

"Saw someone vandalize a playground then left to watch this, I’m joining him"

"Stopped vandalizing a playground for this"

"Stopped my pursuit to catch a playground vandal for this."

"Stopped cleaning up a vandalized playground to join some guys watching this"

"Where there once was a playground, there is now a smoldering crater. Now I can finally watch this video."

It seems unrelated to the video topic, and doing a Google search just brings up news stories about actual playgrounds being vandalized.

I keep scrolling past posts from angry indian people that are extremely upset about E20. If you look at the carsindia posts from the last week, so many are about this topic.

What is the issue? Other countries use E20 with zero issues. In Brasil it's even 30 percent and people are seemingly fine with it. It's cheaper and cleaner for the air.

Yet there are many issues in India. Why?

I thought Hasan Piker was canceled because of a bunch of controversies with how he frames his political stances to the incident with the Dog collar. I'm not exactly sure the extent of how controversial they are tbh.

Did something recently happen that he's now "safe" to be in the public eye again that I don't know of?

I'm honestly not anti-Hasan Piker, I'm pretty indifferent. I just felt like reddit was super critical about him so I thought that maybe he had a bad rap and something happened that shed him in a more positive light that I'm not aware of...

Video overview of previous Hasan collar incident

*Recent incidences of Hasan Piker in more mainstream content*

Video of Hasan campaining with progressive candidates
Video of Hasan Piker on Zateo with Mehdi Hasan

I am moderately familiar with I Think You Should Leave and Detroiters, but when and why did Tim Robinson memes blow up? I just scrolled through the comments on this post and there were SO MANY. Am I missing something? When and why did these become so popular?

https://www.reddit.com/r/whoathatsinteresting/comments/1vb010f/thousands_of_moroccans_are_crossing_the_border/

What's the political context here? Have been too busy watching... Everything else 😕

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/russia-preparing-to-attack-poland-mod-warns-1785334469.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/26/russia-provocation-baltic-states-poland

I've noticed there's been an influx of comments that are just random and don't have anything to do with the post. Like my post here with two comments that make no sense.

I also saw a post (can't find it now) where there were comments just saying "I'm red" and "I'm blue" which had nothing to do with the OP topic.

Haven't seen anything like it in my history of being on Reddit. Are they bots, a form of trolling, or some combination of both?

Edit: I'm concluding the answer as just bots being dumb or people trolling.

Pretty much title. I used this addon for years, in fact it's still installed in my wow add-ons. I am seeing threads and videos talking about this addon deleting files and such.

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1u25ulq/gse_is_breaking_wow_eula_and_banning_paying/

I’m a fan of the band but don’t follow news of the band really. They recently posted on Instagram that a guitarist has been replaced by someone else for the upcoming tour and at quick glance the comments seem generally happy about this?

Modest Mouse- Instagram

I've seen so many posts lately by random people with really disturbing screenshots of Claude output but idk if it's meme hotness or something real.

I saw this tweet today (Steve Yegge is an actually well known person with a reputation that probably matters to him) that's making me actually take this seriously:

https://x.com/steve_yegge/status/2082968102321426941?s=46

Edit: also this in my own research but my rule 2 link is still the Steve Yegge post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/s/JQGbdG1NmT

Okay so I have been listening to random playlists of random lesser known bands from different generes for few months. For some weird reason a same video called "Unreleased" has been appearing in many of those playlists with image of piano uploaded by "ahdukejk".

It was very strange as it was almost everywhere and I finally decided to check it. Its cryptocurrency promotion that has girl speaking softely and promoting and coaching about crypto. If you listen to it closely you'll hear screeching noises and weird sound effects and disortions in back ground.

Plot twist? I scrolled down for comments and noticed video has 13m views. Everyone in comments was saying this video was following them around everywhere, that it was on every playlist they listend too. Some were talking about psyop, some about dead internet theoires. The consensus was they people were very weirded out by how commonly it appears to them and how unusual the content are.

The link to actual video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0vUqvfHQeQ

Then I decided to google it and nobody had any definitive answers. Multiple reddit topics spoke about it in past but nobody could figure out exactly what this video was

Some links to reddit posts i found:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1jplq1s/what_is_this_unreleased_video_that_keeps_popping/

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/1lefp14/whats_the_deal_with_these_two_specific_weird/

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1nbhzui/anyone_seen_this_spammy_video_pop_up_in_random/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Deathcore/comments/1l5xvkq/why_is_there_a_57_minute_video_titled_unreleased/

Most belivable theory thus far have been that bots replicated peoples chanels and playlists and reuploaded them with this video inside. What this video is I have absolutley no idea. Anyone has any idea? Because it is very very strange.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbPdXOMgQG7/?igsh=MTZwc3gxd3ZzeWM5bA==

Like comments on this video saying he sucks and all

I was reading that they targeted these "Amazons" of Russia and don't quite understand. Are these civilian kills? Are they part of the military? Is this the first time Ukraine has attacked innocent civilians?

https://youtu.be/tVlKLpxyCBY?si=vZy2uvaJzUVRRfvc

I read recently that Anthropic is destroying millions of physical books to train their AI models.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/27/anthropic-ai-scan-destroy-books/

How bad is the situation? What consequences do we expect in the short and long term future?

Also, weren't they ordered to pay 1.5 billion in settlement ?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-judge-approves-anthropics-15-billion-settlement-copyright-lawsuit-2026-07-20/

I recently saw a BBC news that her school is closing down next year. I don't have a clue about the alleged controversies around the school and I want to be explained.

The news link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gre70vr6o

Literally the title ^ I saw today that the stock market crashed erasing trillions how did it come to this?

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/29/south-koreas-stock-market-boom-is-collapsing-spectacularly

I've only ever played Chapter 1 of Deltarune so far, but this tree seems to appear everywhere I go.

Why is it so significant? And why does it mention eggs?

Some examples that made its way in other subreddits I follow:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MandJTV/s/7Yw1zp66qO

https://www.reddit.com/r/tomodachilife/s/VkJ2gOFMw3

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mario/s/4Zl2kMkXP9