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🧃 Belle Gibson enters Mel’s comments section

In one of the most unexpectedly cursed timeline moments of the year, Mel gets fact-checked by Belle Gibson — yes, that Belle Gibson — after she jumps into Mel’s Instagram comments to correct something she said. A wellness grifter policing accuracy is peak internet irony and a reminder that sometimes the comments section really is the wild west. No green juice was harmed but Mel’s disbelief absolutely was.

🐊 The internet’s first viral earworm (thanks, Schnappi)

Before TikTok, before YouTube ads, before your sanity… there was a dancing cartoon crocodile singing in German. We revisit Schnappi, the accidental global hit that proved the internet could launch nonsense into the stratosphere — and never look back.

🎧 Boomer ASMR: guess that nostalgic sound

From dial-up tones to Windows error dings, we play the most chaotic game imaginable — identifying tech and pop culture relics by sound alone. It’s soothing, triggering and wildly humbling for everyone involved.

⚛️ Did we almost create a black hole?

Remember when the world briefly panicked that a particle collider might end existence as we know it? Same. We revisit the week science headlines went full apocalypse and somehow lived to tell the tale.

💔 Delta, Brian McFadden and peak tabloid side-eye

A sharp rewind to the moment Australian pop culture turned extremely judgmental, as Delta Goodrem found herself unfairly labelled a homewrecker. A reminder that 2005 tabloids had absolutely no chill.

🕊️ A pope dies, smoke rises and the world watches

White smoke, black smoke and global anticipation as the Vatican farewells Pope John Paul II. A rare moment when the entire planet paused to watch a chimney.

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