JSo Jon Ossoff used to produce anti-corruption documentaries, and the Washington Post tried to make that sound shady.
N"Shady" how? Making movies about corruption is... exposing corruption.
JThat's what Dan Froomkin over on Bluesky is saying. The Post's phrasing was that Ossoff "honed viral messaging techniques."
NOh no. He learned how to get people to pay attention to corruption. What a scandal.
JJill Lawrence linked the full piece. It digs into his leadership of a company that produced these documentaries.
NI read the gift link. The throughline is pretty clear: he investigates corruption and knows how to make it go viral. That's not a liability.
JAnd look, Ossoff has been criticized for a thin résumé before Congress. This is the opposite of that.
NRight? Before he was a senator, he ran a documentary company. That's a real career.
JThe Post piece tries to frame it as a little too slick. A little too good at messaging.
NFor a paper that lives and dies by viral headlines, that's rich.
JAlright, different corner of the internet entirely. Tyla doing the viral Chanel dance.
NOn her one-year "Chanel-versary," apparently? That's what one account is saying.
JI saw the clip. She's doing the choreography from the Chanel commercial. It's fun, it's cute.
NBut I couldn't actually find a specific anniversary event matching that. The dance itself was already viral back in July.
JSo the "one year" framing might just be fan invention. Doesn't change the fact that she's great in that clip.
NNo, it's a fun clip. The original commercial already made the dance iconic, and she's loving it.
JSpeaking of things that are better than they have any right to be... Ryan Estrada on Bluesky asks: remember when an entire episode was a line-by-line recreation of Orson Welles reading a frozen peas commercial?
NThe Critic! That was Jon Lovitz's show, and they did the whole bootleg cassette thing.
JYes. The 1970s outtakes of Welles halfheartedly narrating a frozen peas ad. It's real, it's on Wikipedia.
NAnd The Critic literally recreated it line by line. Welles grumbling about "garden-fresh peas."
JIt's one of those things that sounds like a fever dream but it actually happened.
NThe bootleg is legendary. Orson Welles, one of the greatest directors alive, reading copy for peas and hating every second.
JAnd the outtakes leaked because of course they did. That's the internet before the internet.
NYou can still find the audio online. His voice is pure butter, but he's so checked out.
JThe episode of The Critic is from the nineties, and honestly? It might be the most faithful adaptation ever made.
NIt's a perfect time capsule. Prestige actor, dumb commercial, and the bootleg that made it immortal.
JNow we've got a resurfaced Blueface video. His ex Nevaeh tells him she's not his girlfriend, just the mother of his baby.
NAnd then she goes all in when he kisses her? That's a rollercoaster in one clip.
JThe posts are all saying the same thing: they were proud of her for a second, then...
NThen reality hits. She sets the boundary, he ignores it, she melts. It's a very human mess.
JBut this is an old clip being circulated again. People are reacting like it's brand new.
NIt's the internet recycling content and relitigating a relationship that's years old. Blueface's whole thing is drama.
JAnd the commentary is honestly kind of cruel. "Was proud of her for a sec" — like she's a character, not a person.
NThis is why I don't love these resurfaced clips. It's not commentary, it's just piling on someone's old moment.
JBut the clip itself is also maybe a sad look at how hard it is to leave a toxic situation.
NExactly. That's not funny. That's a woman struggling with a boundary and losing.
JThe internet made it a joke. I'm not sure it is one.
NIt's a good reminder that what's viral isn't always what's right.