ESaturday night, so let's start with the kind of thing the internet was built for.
EA newborn baby in Ecuador has gone viral for being born with a full, thick, dark mustache.
SA mustache. On a newborn.
EThe clip's everywhere, posted by an Ecuadorian account, and the kid looks like he should be asking for your keys and a firm handshake.
SRight, because that's how newborn skin works. Let me check this.
EBefore you ruin it, maybe the kid just has great genetics.
SEric, fact-checkers already got to this. The video's likely real, but that moustache is an AI filter.
SIt flickers, it doesn't track with the baby's face, and the lighting doesn't match the hospital room.
ESo no baby Zorro.
SBabies can be born with fine, light hair called lanugo. But a sharp, dark, thick moustache? Not how that works.
EFine. I wanted to believe. But that's the internet now — you see a baby with a moustache and you have to ask which AI made it.
SAnd the account pushing it does this often. Engagement bait with a cute face attached.
EFair. Strikes me there's a bigger point though: we're using face-mapping filters so much that we're faking newborns now.
SIt's cheaper than actually raising a kid with a dramatic fashion sense.
ETrue. Here's another one from the lighter side of the feed.
ESven-Erik Volberg on Bluesky linked a headline that just says 'Not all trends are bad.'
SThat's not much to go on. What's the trend?
EEstonian news apparently, and he's pointing to some good news story. But the post is just a link. I didn't click it.
SOkay, so it's a promise of good news, and nothing else. That's like saying 'You'll never guess what happened next' and then ending the video.
EI respect the optimism though. The feed's all doom, AI scams, and playoff blowups, and this guy's just posting that something isn't worse.
SMaybe, but if you're going to tell me a trend is good, show me the trend. I'm not chasing a headline with no content.
ESpoken like someone who has been burned by every clickbait headline since 2014.
SI have the scars to prove it.
ESpeaking of light stories with no meat — SaveDemocracy123 posted the same YouTube short twice in a row. Just the link, twice.
SSo it's either a really compelling video or his thumb got stuck.
ENo description, no context. But the account name says a lot. Save Democracy. Probably a political short.
SOr it's a cat video and the account is aspirational. We don't know.
EThe real story might be the double post. Bluesky's newer, people cross-post in a panic.
SIt's also the classic move: drop the video link twice because the first one didn't load for you.
EI won't pretend that's a segment. But it's Saturday night, and the feed's giving us a fake baby moustache and some cryptic links.
EAt least we got one actual fact out of it: babies can have lanugo, not handlebars.
SAnd if you see a newborn with a perfect moustache, your first question should be about the filter, not the barber.