Delete the Metadata, Glass Bridge Slop, KFC Leak
October 2025 (Week 1)
The internet is like a constant flow of information diarrhea. The job of this newsletter is to sort through the muck and condense it into one solid turd that can easily pass through your system. I’m essentially providing some much-needed fiber to your digital media diet.
Anyway, there was a ton of crap to sort through this week—so let’s get into it!
Delete the metadata off this photo. I’m so serious
Attention All Internet Users: new meme just dropped.
Last week, twitter user David AttenBruh (@AlHenfiddy) quote-tweeted a photo of a “melanistic cougar,” an extremely rare black cougar, begging the original poster to “Delete the metadata off this photo. I’m so serious,” seemingly to protect the animal from potential poachers.
Lucky for him, metadata (information embedded into an image file such as camera settings and GPS location) is automatically stripped from any photo uploaded to twitter, but also—lucky or unlucky—his words have officially become a meme.
People all over the world are now cheekily warning people to “delete the metadata off this photo” whenever there’s something rare or cool they don’t want poached.
We’ve had better memes, but this one is fine!
Samsung Ring Fumble
Ever had a product produced by a major corporation malfunction so badly that you were practically guaranteed a massive settlement? If so, hopefully you were smarter than this guy, Daniel (@ZONEofTECH):
Apparently, the internal battery on Daniel’s Samsung Galaxy ring expanded so much it got stuck on his finger and had to be removed at the hospital. He was also denied boarding and forced to miss his flight.
Anyone unfamiliar with how dangerous swollen lithium batteries are, let me just say the airline was 100% correct to not let this man board. Not only can swollen lithium batteries leak toxic chemicals, the buildup of gases can cause a hard-to-extinguish fiery explosion.
In another update, Daniel stated that Samsung reached out directly and refunded him for his hotel, booked a car to get home and collected the ring from him for further investigation.
Yeah, I bet they fucking did!! Next time you have a slam dunk lawsuit in the literal palm of your hand, please don’t give the evidence back to the company who immediately flew out their lawyers to retrieve it.
Biometric wearables are hit or miss but I’d suggest avoiding this particular ring of death.
Gwenyth Paltrow IG Comment
Can we all just bask in this Instagram comment by Gwenyth Paltrow.
She’s so real.
Glass bridge slop
It’s official—Ai companies have finally stopped pretending they’re trying to cure cancer and have officially pivoted to serving up short-form slop in order to show us more ads. Growing up, we thought the future meant flying cars, but instead we got refrigerators that record our private conversations and police robot “dogs” that can hunt us. Cool…
This past week, Meta rolled out ‘Vibes,’ an endless scroll of AI-generated videos, submitted by creators and launched on the Meta AI app and website. If you’re under 70-years-old and have half a functioning brain you’re likely in the majority of people who think this product fucking sucks.
It should piss all of us off that Mark Zuckerberg and his Meta goons are sucking up all our water and investing HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS in an Ai that can only produce groundbreaking technology like this:
If you’re lucky enough to not recognize this image, just know there’s a whole genre of Vibes (god that’s such a stupid name it hurts to even type it out) that is essentially “fat old woman smashes glass and kills a bunch of people.”
The above video continues on with the Ai woman smashing and killing everyone on the bridge, with the exception of a child who survives the fall into a river and is saved by a golden retriever puppy… Compelling stuff….
There’s several variations of different Ai women with big rocks intentionally smashing China’s Zhangjiajie Glass Bridge and killing everybody on it. There’s also one of a grandma taking a sledgehammer to the side of a rooftop pool and all the swimmers spilling out over the side to their deaths. There’s another one of an old lady smashing open the shark tank at an aquarium.
Part of me wonders if this new genre of “fake mass death for entertainment” is a result of the Ai’s training data (because let’s be serious, the past few years have produced a lot of death onto our feeds) or if it’s an intentional and nefarious attempt at numbing us all towards the real mass death we see on social media. Short form video already fries our attention spans, but it’s increasingly looking like it’s also aiming to destroy what’s left of our collective empathy.
But who really knows? Everything sucks!
KFC leaks
KFC is famous for their proprietary spice blend consisting of 11 herbs and spices. It’s such a cornerstone of their identity, their official twitter account only follows 11 users: six random guys named ‘Herb’ and the five original Spice Girls. (pretty cheeky!)
Well, one nephew of the real Colonel Sanders has had ENOUGH of KFC’s sassy bullshit and, after being blocked by the company’s official accounts, he responded by posting their secret chicken recipe to his TikTok account.
He states in the video:
“They blocked me for calling out their advertising team as ‘weird, disrespectful and disgusting.’ Over the last decade, they have sexualized my uncle for marketing purposes.”
The boy isn’t wrong! He posts receipts:
And then he drops the hammer.
“I cannot and will not support a company that does that. My response to Kentucky Fried Chicken blocking me is: do you want to know how to make their chicken?”
And then he posts the recipe:
Sounds delicious. Carry on, KFC king!
Nicole Kidman Divorce
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have announced their split after 19 years of marriage and the internet responded with the same care and sympathy they always do: jokes.
We are so unserious, but it’s one of our best collective qualities.
Before I Go…
Since it’s officially the spooky season and this got a good chuckle out of me, I thought I’d share:
That’s it! We survived.
See you next week and happy scrolling! - Ally