Daily Dot Newsletter: Sharp surprise in your chicken wrap (2025)

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Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here.Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr.

Here’s thelatest trending internet culture storiestoday: A woman’ssharp discovery in her chicken wrapfrom a local cafe, why the Democratic party hasdeclared war on social media against Pete Hegseth, an expert revealing why he’savoiding cruise ships this year, and a trend online where woman are sharing their dream homes (that include dungeons for their husbands).

After that, we’ve got a “Decoding Fandom” column from our Assistant Newsletter EditorKirathat explores why the reaction to an upcoming Marvel moviediffers depending on the social media platform.

Also, don’t forget to check out what themost popular storyon the Daily Dot was yesterday in our “Hot on the Dot” section at the bottom of the newsletter.

See you tomorrow!

— A.W.

⚡ Today in Internet Culture

🐔 WTF?!
‘I thought it was a carrot’: Woman buys chicken wrap from local cafe. Then she learns the hard way what’s inside

A woman saysher recent trip to a cafe almost ended in tragedywhenshe found a knife lodged in her wrap.

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💬 VIRAL POLITICS
Democrats go hard on Hegseth over SignalGate 2.0

TheDemocratic Party’s official X accounthas declared war against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

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🚢 THE MORE YOU KNOW
‘I just cancelled my cruise vacation this year’: Expert reveals he will be avoiding cruise ships in 2025. Then he exposes the shocking reason why

An immunologist tellsprospective cruise ship vacationerstoconsider this health concern before booking their trip.

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🏠 TRENDS
‘God forbid a girl be an architect’: The dream home trend where girls just want a big sink, a cat room, and a dungeon for men

Women on TikTok aresharing aspirational images of their dream homesthatinclude rooms with cages and torture chambers“for their husbands.”

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ByKira Deshler
Assistant Newsletter Editor

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🕸️ Crawling the Web

Here is what else is happening across the ‘net.

👩‍🦰 Adermatologistsharedwhat ingredients you should look forif you aretrying to combat hair losswith shampoo.

🛒 ThisInstacart driverhelpedherself to the client’s goods. The thing is, even if she was in stealth mode,she likely still would have gotten caught.

🗒️ A woman spotted anote left behind by another Hobby Lobby shopper, informing other shoppersthat they can get the same decorations cheaperat Dollar Tree.

🍕 IsPizza Hut getting rid of delivery drivers? A part-time Pizza Hut driver sayshis store has offloaded deliveries to popular applicationslikeDoorDashandUberEats.

💸 Rent isn’t cheap, but some landlordsare still finding ways to squeeze extra moneyout of tenants.

📝 Question of the Day

Everyone’s got opinions, andwe want to know yours. Justclick a button belowto answer the question, and tomorrowwe will let you knowhow fellow web crawlers like you answered.

ARE YOU THINKING OFGOING ON A CRUISETHIS YEAR?

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🔥 Hot on the Dot

This was themost read storyon the Daily Dot yesterday:

➤‘Nissan knew who they were marketing to’: Man sits in driver’s seat of Altima. Then he realizes it has this unprecedented feature

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