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From the V&A to the Stranger Things finale, the pop icon still looms large – but with lower streaming figures than his peers, how many new listeners are discovering his music?

Since the end of December, 2025, X’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has responded to many users’ requests to undress real people by turning photos of the people into sexually explicit material. After people began using the feature, the social platform company faced global scrutiny for enabling users to generate nonconsensual…

"Nothing in my professional training as an X-ray astronomer had prepared me for something like this."

From blunt honesty to everyday habits that would raise eyebrows elsewhere, these responses highlight just how relative “normal” really is. What’s polite in one country can be downright rude in another, and this thread offers a fascinating reminder that cultural context shapes far more than we realize.

"We are not user-friendly... there is nothing special about me"

Three women did Fukubukuro shopping to celebrate the new year at a Coach store. They ended up with at least $1,250 worth of Coach bags, yet they paid only $500, something that shocked many viewers on TikTok who had never heard of the custom before. 

""Madonna always does weird stuff!"

Even shoe leather looks more appetizing.

“To even entertain the conversation of freezing your eggs with an 11-year-old is ludicrous,” a listener wrote.