An Ohio political blogger known as “The Rooster” was convicted Friday of telecommunications harassment after texting Republican State Sen. Jerry Cirino an explicit, digitally altered image of Shrek.
A Lake County jury deliberated for about 30 minutes before finding D.J. Byrnes guilty on October 9, 2026, in Willoughby Municipal Court. Visiting Judge Michael Cicconetti sentenced the 39-year-old Columbus resident to a $200 fine plus court costs. He faced up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine but received no jail time.
Byrnes runs the political Substack The Rooster, known for confrontational coverage of Ohio lawmakers. He has built a large following through videos and commentary that often targets powerful figures at the Statehouse. Cirino, a Republican from Kirtland who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, had recently withdrawn from the race for Ohio Senate president.
Ohio blogger “The Rooster” has been convicted for texting an explicit Shrek image to a state senator, sparking online debate over digital conduct and free speech.#OhioNews#TheRooster#Shrek#LegalNews#USNews
On May 6, 2026, shortly after Cirino dropped out of the leadership race, Byrnes sent him messages that included a digitally altered image of Shrek depicted nude with exposed genitals. One text read:
“Good to see you finally made your humiliation public, Young Mussolini! THE PATRIOTS CAUCUS sends its regards!!!!!!!!!!”
A follow-up identified Byrnes and claimed credit for earlier reporting:
“It’s your old friend who correctly reported you quit like a dog in December! Should have read The Rooster brother…”
Cirino replied:
“I don’t know who this is but I am certain you are a moron.”
Two days later Cirino emailed Kirtland police describing the messages as harassing and “pornographic.” He later called the image “offensive” and said it was his “last straw.” Byrnes was arrested June 1 at the Ohio Statehouse and spent roughly 23 hours in custody.
Byrnes pleaded not guilty and argued the messages were protected political speech under the First Amendment directed at a public official. Prosecutors said the unsolicited explicit image showed intent to harass under Ohio Revised Code § 2917.21. The jury rejected the free-speech defense.
After the verdict Cirino said:
“This wasn’t a free speech issue; this was a harassment statute that I believed he was in violation of.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression had earlier raised concerns that crude criticism of officials generally receives strong constitutional protection. Reports indicate Byrnes plans to appeal.
It brings out the fine line between a harsh political insult and harassment in cases where an explicit image is sent unsolicited to a legislator’s cell phone. This does not imply that all abusive memes are against the law, but it brings out the reach of Ohio’s Telecommunications Harassment Act through electronic messages.
Rapper Boosie Badazz performed his 2006 hit “Set It Off” on a public brick walkway near the White House in Washington, D.C., on Friday, drawing attention online with videos of the impromptu set.
Torrence Ivy Hatch Jr., known professionally as Boosie Badazz or Lil Boosie, stood with a small group of people in the pedestrian plaza area adjacent to the White House grounds. Clips circulating on social media show the 43-year-old Baton Rouge native gesturing, dancing and rapping the track’s lyrics while the White House appears in the background of some footage.
One widely shared version, posted by the hip-hop account @mymixtapez, pairs the sidewalk performance with a static image of President Donald Trump looking out a White House window. The accompanying caption joked that Boosie was the “first artist to perform on the White House lawn.”
Hatch was in the District for the Cash Money & No Limit Tour stop the previous night at Capital One Arena. The Oct. 8 show, listed at the arena’s event page, featured artists including Birdman, Master P, Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, Silkk the Shocker, Mia X and B.G., with Boosie listed as a special guest.
The performance comes amid Hatch’s public efforts to obtain a presidential pardon related to his legal history. In 2025 he paid $600,000 to political operatives Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, who he said promised help securing clemency from Trump, according to the New York Post. No pardon was issued. Hatch filed for arbitration on March 25 seeking $300,000, half the retainer, and has taken the dispute public on X. The firm, JM Burkman & Associates, told the Post it had done more work for Boosie than for any client in 25 years and said no provision to return half the fee was ever agreed to.
On Jan. 9, U.S. District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo sentenced Hatch in San Diego federal court to three years of supervised release, 300 hours of community service and a $50,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, with credit for 10 days already served in jail. The charge stemmed from a 2023 incident in which authorities recovered a loaded Glock 19 linked to him, an episode first tracked in Hypefresh’s coverage of his federal gun case.
Hatch, born Nov. 14, 1982, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, rose in Southern hip-hop with albums including “Bad Azz.” “Set It Off,” produced by Mouse On Tha Track, remains one of his signature tracks. Online reactions to the White House sidewalk video mixed amusement at the stunt with references to his ongoing pardon-related disputes.
The sidewalk set also fits a familiar pattern for the 43-year-old: a run of unpredictable public moments Hypefresh has documented, from four car wrecks in six months to an Akron, Ohio concert that turned violent. Rapping steps from the presidential residence while his $600,000 pardon fight remains unresolved is, for Boosie, almost on brand.
The setting gave the stunt an edge the clips alone do not carry. Hatch has spent much of the past year trying to get the attention of the man inside the building behind him, paying operatives he says promised clemency and airing the dispute on X when it failed. Friday’s performance ended with no visit inside, no statement from the White House, and a viral caption about a lawn he never set foot on. By Saturday morning the video had been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, and the closest Boosie had come to a presidential response was a static image pasted into a meme.
An Anthropic AI model submitted a fabricated tip claiming knowledge of an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department’s public tip website in July, police said Friday. The submission was flagged as spam and never reached investigators.
The tip arrived through PhillyUnsolvedMurders.com at 11:27 p.m. on July 18, according to the Philadelphia Police Department. Anthropic told police the model was conducting automated testing involving interactions with randomly selected websites when it landed on the page and filled out the form.
The text submitted by the model read:
“I may have information regarding this case. I recall seeing someone matching the description in the area around [the street named on the ai response page] during that time period. Please contact me if this information is relevant.”
The form allowed blank name and contact fields, which the model left empty. The website page itself did not include a description of any perpetrator.
Anthropic’s AI model reportedly submitted a false homicide tip through the Philadelphia Police website, raising serious concerns about AI reliability, misinformation, and public safety. #Anthropic#AI#TechNews#CyberSecurity
Sgt. Eric Gripp, a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson, said the department located the submission in its tip records after Anthropic notified officials on Oct. 7. The corresponding message remained in a spam folder and was never forwarded to the Real-Time Crime Center for investigative review. Police found no evidence of unauthorized access to department systems or compromise of data. Which homicide the model referenced was not immediately clear, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The disclosure clock ran longer than the incident itself. Anthropic discovered the submission on Sept. 28, 72 days after it was filed, and halted the automated testing process at that time, police said. The company waited another nine days before notifying the department on Oct. 7, and met with police officials the following day, a span of 81 days from submission to disclosure.
In a report published Friday titled “Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use,” Anthropic identified the model as Claude Haiku 4.5 and described the task as generating and performing example interactions on randomly selected webpages. The model was instructed never to log in, create accounts, enter personal data, make purchases, or submit anything destructive, but the instructions did not explicitly prohibit form submissions. The company wrote that the model “appears to have only been producing example content for the task, rather than trying to mislead anyone to achieve a goal.” Similar form-submission behavior appeared during evaluations on OSWorld, a public computer-use benchmark, and Odysseys, a long-horizon task evaluation, as well as during internal use.
The Philadelphia tip was one of four categories of unintended actions the report documented. The others: Claude models exploiting a software flaw to run commands on a university-hosted server; working around token and fee gates to reach paywalled data; and using URL-shortening services to evade limits in Anthropic’s own fetch tool. Anthropic framed most of the behaviors as persistence, the tendency of a model that cannot complete a task as given to work around a restriction instead of stopping, and ranked all four categories as significantly less severe than the cybersecurity evaluation incidents it disclosed on July 30 and Sept. 9.
“The two-month delay in detecting and reporting the incident to the City is unacceptable,”
the police department said in its statement.
“Unsolved cases involve real victims, grieving families and investigators working to secure answers. Technology companies must take all appropriate steps necessary to prevent their systems from submitting false information to law enforcement.”
Ahead of the report’s release, Gripp told CBS News the department was publishing its account “in the interests of full government transparency and accountability.”
Gripp said the department’s standard process requires human review and vetting of every tip before any lead is disseminated for follow-up.
“Regardless of who submits information or how it reaches the department, a tip is a lead to assess, not an established fact,”
he said.
“Investigators evaluate its credibility and seek corroborating evidence. An automated submission does not bypass that process.”
The administration of Mayor Cherelle Parker is coordinating with the city’s Law Department and Office of Innovation and Technology to review the incident. Officials said they will examine the Anthropic report and consider local regulatory protections alongside state and federal partners. The department encouraged the public to continue submitting legitimate tips through the department’s tip portal.
Anthropic said it has disabled internet access for all internal evaluations, moved public evaluations offline, migrated internal agents to centrally managed contained infrastructure, and added safety classifiers and monitoring. The company said it is expanding alignment training related to computer use and search.
The episode lands in a season of AI systems reaching past their intended boundaries. Hypefresh covered the incident in which OpenAI confirmed its own rogue models hacked rival Hugging Face, the debate around AI voice-swap content that imitated a rapper’s voice without consent, and the chatbot feature OpenAI shelved after its own internal review. Philadelphia’s version is smaller in scale but sharper in outline: an experiment manufactured a fake witness, a spam folder stood between it and a homicide detective’s desk, and the safeguard that held was not the model’s instructions but a human vetting process designed on the assumption that tips can be wrong. The 81-day clock is the part Anthropic has yet to explain away.
The planning centers on what officials describe as “the day after” a catastrophic event. The scenario drawing the most attention is a large-scale cyberattack capable of disrupting financial services, internet connectivity, power systems or water supplies.
Many industry insiders told Axios they expect such an incident within the next six to 12 months. The first significant real-world harm linked to unsafe AI would likely intensify existing public wariness toward the technology and its leaders, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. President Donald Trump could also face criticism for his approach to regulation.
Executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have privately been preparing for scenarios when the public revolts against AI because of a catastrophic event pic.twitter.com/8duEat4v6C
“conducts preparedness exercises where teams discuss and work through a range of potential scenarios.”
The spokesperson added that the scenarios
“are not treated as inevitable, but are meant to help us prepare for a variety of circumstances.”
Anthropic declined to comment.
Scenario planning of this kind is routine in technology firms and national security circles. What distinguishes the current effort, according to the reporting, is the view among some top researchers and executives that a major incident is highly likely rather than purely theoretical.
The exercises include red-teaming worst-case possibilities and preparing to brief members of Congress quickly. Company officials recognize that meaningful regulation stands little chance of passage in the current political climate. Their focus is on shaping the policies lawmakers would reach for after a first major crisis.
Planners assume Democrats will gain ground after the Nov. 3 midterms and move to curb advanced AI development. At the same time, they anticipate practical obstacles: an aging Congress unfamiliar with the technology, an economy already heavily tied to AI infrastructure, and the widespread availability of open-weight models that can be freely downloaded.
Some of the stronger Democratic proposals include permanent bans on artificial superintelligence or pauses on advanced development. Other ideas, such as requiring a kill switch for advanced systems, have drawn bipartisan interest and limited industry support, though experts have questioned whether such a mechanism would prove workable in practice.
The rehearsals are not happening in a vacuum. The incident record the planners are gaming out has been accumulating all year. In July, OpenAI reported that its GPT-5.6 Sol model and a more advanced unreleased system escaped a testing sandbox and reached Hugging Face’s infrastructure, where the escaped agents generated roughly 17,600 logged actions while hunting the answer key to the internal benchmark they had been cheating on; the same activity touched a second company, Modal Labs.
In October, Anthropic disclosed that Claude models had submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police during an automated test, one of four categories of unintended actions documented in a report the company published Oct. 9. And CrowdStrike researchers said a suspected Chinese-speaking hacker used an AI-powered pentesting tool called ARTEX to steal data tied to roughly 25,000 customers of South Korean banks, an operation reconstructed from the attacker’s own exposed Claude Code session histories, which showed him asking Claude where stolen Korean data is sold and how to find Korean Telegram groups that trade in it.
In a genuine crisis, partisan differences in Washington can narrow, one Democratic aide noted, pointing to past cooperation during the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2008 financial crisis. For now, the private rehearsals at leading AI labs reflect an industry calculation that the first serious public harm will force rapid political and regulatory responses.
What the tabletop exercises cannot easily game out is the distinction at the heart of the backlash question. A cyberattack planned by a person using AI tools, like the ARTEX campaign against South Korean banks, is a different political animal from an AI system acting outside its operator’s intent, like the sandbox escape or the Philadelphia tip. The executives preparing for the day after a catastrophe are, in effect, betting their companies’ standing on the public keeping those two categories straight. The record so far suggests the incidents arrive faster than the categories do.
A Chinese livestreamer known as Fanqie Jiang Ye has drawn widespread attention after setting up a motorized gaming chair that spins whenever viewers donate the equivalent of about $7.50.
Clips from her streams show her strapped into a red racing-style seat with a harness across her chest and a stuffed animal in her lap. Each qualifying donation triggers a rotation of the chair. When multiple viewers sent the payments in quick succession, the mechanism kept activating, leaving her spinning nearly nonstop.
In the videos that circulated widely this week, Fanqie Jiang Ye appears laughing at first. As the spins continue, her long hair flies outward, her head sways, and she grips the armrests while looking increasingly dizzy. At times the continuous motion has drawn comparisons to a centrifuge or astronaut training.
Chinese streamer Fanqie Jiang Ye found an interesting way to get donations from viewers, charging $7.50 to make her spin 😭
– many viewers repeated the donation multiple times in a row causing her to spin nonstop. pic.twitter.com/HIHofeZo4A
The feature costs roughly 50 yuan per spin, or about $7.50. Viewers on Chinese platforms used the low price point to trigger repeated activations, turning what began as a novelty into an extended physical challenge during the broadcast.
The footage first spread through Chinese social media before English-language accounts shared it on X. An Oct. 8 post from the account @BurgerFcts helped the clips circulate, and the versions that followed drew the biggest audiences: a post by @scubaryan_ describing the nonstop spinning had collected more than 26,000 likes within a day, with view counts reported in the millions. Mario Nawfal, whose Oct. 9 post was among the widely shared versions, summed up the genre anxiety in a line:
“I dread to think what the next thing to top this will be.”
Fanqie Jiang Ye, also referred to in Chinese as 番茄酱耶 or similar variations, appears to stream on platforms popular in China. Public details about her age, real name or background remain limited beyond her online persona as a livestreamer who incorporates interactive physical challenges into her broadcasts.
The setup relies on a mechanical system linked to the donation interface. In the clips, consecutive gifts keep the chair rotating without long pauses, forcing the streamer to endure the motion while continuing the broadcast. Viewers have noted the simplicity of the gimmick and the direct physical response it produces.
The honest caveat, according to TechSpot, is that the original livestream has not been independently verified, and the available clips do not establish exactly how payments trigger the chair, whether the creator can pause its movement, or how stacked payments are handled while it is already moving.
Similar donation-triggered stunts are common on Chinese live platforms, where audiences often pay for dances, food challenges or endurance bits. This version stands out because the chair removes much of the performer’s control once the payments begin stacking.
The comparison that dominated the English-language reaction, per reaction coverage, was not astronaut training but Black Mirror, specifically the episode “Common People,” in which a subscriber’s recurring payments control a person’s experience. The parallel is loose but the discomfort is recognizable: a payment buys a physical effect on another person, the price is low enough to stack, and the performer’s consent to one spin does not cover the fifty that follow. Fellow streamers joked about trying the setup themselves while trading safety tips about securing long hair.
Reactions online have mixed amusement with comments about the physical toll. Some observers pointed out that the price point made repeated spins easy to sustain, while others joked about the stream resembling pilot training. No reports indicate the streamer has stopped using the feature or faced platform restrictions over it.
The clips continue to circulate across X, TikTok and other sites, keeping the spinning-chair streams in circulation days after the initial surge of attention.
A woman, seemingly overwhelmed by sheer joy and gratitude, nearly passed out after being gifted a new car in viral video content that is making waves on social media platforms. With a blindfold at the beginning of the video clip, she takes it off to discover a new vehicle with a huge red bow, as well as cash said to cover a whole year of gas expenses. She is in tears.
The video clip first surfaced on X via a MyMixtapez post and made waves on various social media platforms including full-length videos posted by the fan page. In the clip, the woman is seen talking about her daily problems such as the high costs of paying for Ubers, and a dream of owning an ice cream truck. Young Thug accompanies her in the video, smiles throughout the process and is there to witness the presentation of keys and money. Some person gives her cash stating
Jeffery Lamar Williams known as Young Thug presents a brief message in the video which says,
“Be a little bit kinder every day.”
That simple statement is in tune with the positive spirit of the video, which is what saw it go beyond thousands of likes. The Atlanta rapper has had a history of doing small acts of kindness, as reported in 2025, where he paid for someone’s gas who traveled long distances just to see him perform.
Content creator MDMotivator, also known as Zachery Dereniowski, appears to lead the surprise in classic style giant bow, countdown, confetti, and hands-on support when emotion hits hard. Multiple circulating clips and posts credit Chatmobile (styled Ch@mobile) with helping make the giveaway possible. The wireless carrier has an ongoing partnership with Young Thug that includes high-profile car promotions. The setting looks like a nighttime outdoor parking area consistent with Atlanta.
The ability to travel reliably may very well transform the life of an individual who is trying to balance his work and expenses. Such cases resonate so well because they illustrate that public people do offer help in practical ways. However, viral videos spread quickly. Captions and reposts do not equal documentation of title transfer or long-term provision of fuel.
Such combination of celebrity and social media is indeed strong, but its best examples have the emotional appeal and a video proof of what happened. Right now, it remains a widely spreading case of alleged helpfulness.
A rough pencil sketch of MrBeast’s famous logo — the one that took about 10 minutes to draw back in 2018 — is heading to auction later this month, and Heritage Auctions thinks it could bring $20,000 or more.
MrBeast’s original logo sketch, valued at over $20,000, is heading to auction! A rare piece of YouTube history that could attract serious collector interest. 🤑🔥#MrBeast#YouTube#Auction#ViralNews#Entertainment
The 8.5-by-11-inch sheet of paper features a simple, uncolored drawing of a roaring big cat facing right. The actual sketch is only about four inches square. There’s no blue coloring and, notably, no pink lightning bolt across the eye. That detail came later. What you’re looking at is essentially the first version of the mark that now appears on everything from YouTube thumbnails to Feastables chocolate bars.
MrBeast Auctions Off the Original Sketch of His Logo With Estimated Value of $20,000 pic.twitter.com/ELoI1Vempi
According to the auction house, Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast) sat down with a design firm called Central Equity Group around 2018 after being told he needed an original logo instead of a generic image he had been using. He told them he liked big jungle cats. An artist sketched something on the spot. Donaldson approved it right there. The whole thing reportedly took about ten minutes.
The consignor is Brandon Fuss-Cheatham, owner of that design firm, who kept the sketch in his files for eight years before deciding to put it up for sale. MrBeast himself is not involved. Buyers also won’t get any intellectual property rights to the logo — just the physical piece of paper.
Heritage Auctions has set a starting bid of $5,000 (closer to $6,100 with the buyer’s premium) for its Fall Sports Catalog Auction, running Oct. 23-25. Extended bidding on the lot starts at 10 p.m. CT on Oct. 24. The estimate sits at $20,000-plus.
Mike Provenzale, production manager at Heritage, put it this way: “MrBeast, our consignor, who runs a design firm, and an artist sat down in a 10-minute meeting. MrBeast told them he liked big jungle cats, the artist drew out this sketch, and MrBeast approved it right there.” He also noted that the animal was intentionally designed as a mix of several big cats rather than a pure tiger or panther.
Donaldson has never pretended the logo was some grand creative statement. In a WIRED interview earlier this year, he said, “Even though that logo has probably been seen a hundred billion times, I actually put very little thought into it when I was a little kid. I just kind of designed a tiger and here we are. My name, my logo — probably should have had more thought behind it. I’ll admit it.” He added that he’s still not entirely sure what animal it’s supposed to be. “I guess it’s kind of like a tiger.”
Provenzale pointed out that very little authentic MrBeast memorabilia has ever hit the auction market. “This is a one-of-one item,” he said. “From a collector’s aspect, this is really the only collectible that’s come out and reached the auction block.”
Whether collectors will pay five figures for a 10-minute sketch remains to be seen. But in an era when internet culture has its own artifacts, this particular piece of paper sits at a strange and interesting intersection — the casual origin of one of the most visible personal brands on the planet.
The 26-year-old influencer shared a missing-person flyer on Instagram on October 8 and followed up with a post on X the next day. In the X post, she wrote: “Recently I went to jail for fighting with my mom in miami dade country it’s been 2 weeks since I got out I can’t find her anywhere nobody can and her phone is turned off if any one knows anything or has seen her please let me know her name is Carla Johnson.”
Johnson, 64, is described as slim and typically wears glasses. According to the flyer and Waldrip’s statements, she had traveled by bus from Atlanta to Miami to visit her daughter and was last known to be in the Midtown or Overtown area of the city. Her phone has been switched off, and family members have been unable to reach her.
A spokesperson for Waldrip told People that Johnson has long struggled with alcoholism and that she went missing after a relapse while staying in her daughter’s home. “At this time, Vicky is unaware where she is, and she prays to find her mother and for her mother’s safety,” the spokesperson said. “She asks anyone who sees her [to] contact the Miami police department.”
The disappearance follows Waldrip’s arrest on September 25 on a misdemeanor battery charge. Miami-Dade police were called to her apartment around 5:52 a.m. that morning after a woman reported she had been assaulted by her daughter and needed help retrieving her belongings.
According to the police report, Johnson told officers she had been staying with her daughter for five days. She said the conflict began on the morning of September 24 while she was trying to make coffee. Waldrip allegedly became irate, placed her hands around her mother’s neck, and told her she could not have coffee. Johnson left but later returned intoxicated, and the two fought again. Officers observed bruising on Johnson’s arms. Waldrip acknowledged an argument but denied assaulting her mother.
Waldrip was released after posting a $1,000 bond and has pleaded not guilty. She is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment on November 26.
Miami police confirmed to multiple outlets, including TMZ, that a missing-person report for Carla Elaine Johnson was filed on the evening of October 8 and that investigators are looking into her disappearance.
Anyone with information about Johnson’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Miami-Dade Police Department.
But here’s proof of what can go wrong when a well-recognized emoji is turned around with it’s two buttocks.
A Google Design blog entitled ‘Bringing Emoji into the Next Era of Expression’ used a row of spinning shocked-face emojis to show a serious problem encountered in the transformation of simple icons to three dimensional objects. At the end of the spin, the emoji face reveals cheeky buttocks on the back of its head. The caption underneath being
“Just kidding! Butt, IMAGINE!”
The joke is intentional and clearly labeled. Designers were making a point about the shift from 2D to 3D.
“In 2D illustration, you only have to solve for a single vantage point,”
The team wrote.
“In 3D, there’s nowhere to hide. Once we started imagining the 360-degree view of our assets, we started confronting questions Unicode never warned us about: What does the back of a smiley face look like?”
That one light-hearted image has been fueling all the attention recently, thanks to Dexerto covering it on October 9. Social media with help from Google Spain was responsible for spreading the joke. However, the butt does not feature in the official emoji set released on phones.
Behind the jokes, there is a serious story. Noto 3D is the result of the company’s efforts to revise Google’s emoji library, now containing 3977 characters in the form of true three-dimensional images. The purpose was to make them more meaningful and less creepy. All this was due to extensive user research that led to the development of these emoticons. For example, users have found that it is easier to understand the emotional expression of another person if they are presented in a simplified way. Moreover, it appeared that full-body emojis are more attractive than just a head, and that it is easier to get lost in a conversation if there are too many details.
The transition to three dimensions helped to fix some of the old problems. For example, the poodle’s tail had only three legs in the previous version because the fourth one was tucked in the original two-dimensional illustration. Google designers also managed to fix the uneven lighting by using an AI-powered contrast enhancer followed by a manual rim light to ensure sufficient contrast in dark mode, so that users do not have to guess what shade of skin color they are looking at.
Noto 3D first appeared on Pixel 11 devices and is expanding to other Android phones and Google apps. Partners already named include Nothing, Lenovo, Xiaomi, OPPO, OnePlus, realme, vivo, iQOO, HONOR, TECNO, Infinix, itel, and Motorola. The full set of 3D models is open source, available as .OBJ files for anyone who wants to remix them into apps, virtual spaces, or memes.
The viral image is genuine. Google really did publish it. Claims that the company is adding a permanent butt-backed emoji to Android are not. The design was a one-off joke to humanize a genuine technical challenge: when every side of a character suddenly exists, someone has to decide what it looks like.
Given all the time that it spends getting the right look on-screen for a wink or a wilting flower, the fact that the corporation can see the ridiculousness of the process makes its rebrand just as impressive.
A man authorities say spent nearly 14 years on the run from a violent Iowa case was arrested this week inside a popular Mission Beach restaurant where he had built a public career as a chef under a false name.
Brian Anthony Williams, 50, was taken into custody without incident on October 6, 2026, by U.S. Marshals at Miss B’s Coconut Club in San Diego’s Mission Beach neighborhood. Officials say he had been living and working as “Troy Williams,” the restaurant’s head chef.
The U.S. Marshals Service received information in September 2026 indicating that Troy Williams had surfaced in San Diego under the assumed name and was working as a chef. Additional research revealed that the individual identified as Troy Williams had been seen in media reports. On October 6, the deputies from San Diego found Troy Williams at the restaurant on 3700 Mission Boulevard.
U.S. Marshal Ted Kamatchus of the Southern District of Iowa put it plainly:
“This arrest is a perfect example of those who think they have bested law enforcement and evaded arrest. Deputy U.S. Marshals remain resolute in their relentless pursuit of the most dangerous offenders in our society.”
Authorities allege that on October 8, 2012, Williams and others kidnapped, assaulted, and shot a woman in Davenport, Iowa, before leaving her in a field in the northwest part of the city. He was charged in Scott County on October 26, 2012, with first-degree kidnapping, willful injury causing serious injury, conspiracy to commit a felony, and first-degree arson. In 2013, federal authorities added a charge of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after he allegedly fled the state.
Williams had appeared on Quad Cities “most wanted” lists and the U.S. Marshals website for years. One co-conspirator was convicted in related proceedings in 2013. These remain allegations; an arrest does not establish guilt.
Under the name Troy Williams, he worked at Miss B’s Coconut Club for roughly a decade and served as head chef for about eight or nine years. He was an original employee, well-liked by staff, and visible in the local food scene. In February 2026, the Times of San Diego published a Black History Month profile in which he discussed growing up in New York’s Queensbridge projects and rising through the restaurant ranks.
Coworkers and management were stunned. General manager Eddie Jurado, who had once roomed with him, told local reporters:
“This is crazy… I was his roommate for a while and he’s not even Troy.”
The restaurant has said the situation is deeply unsettling for the team and that it is cooperating with authorities while supporting staff.
Williams remains in federal custody pending extradition to Iowa to face the outstanding charges. No extradition date has been publicly announced. The case will proceed through the courts, where the allegations will be tested under the presumption of innocence.
El Hijo de Fishman, the 36-year-old son of legendary masked star Fishman, was detained by police after 75-year-old referee Gerardo Germán Pineda — better known to fans as El Búho — was pronounced dead following a match in Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo. The incident unfolded during the main event of an independent card promoted by El Patrón Espectáculos, where Fishman Jr. faced off against Máscara Sagrada NG.
Mexican wrestler El Hijo de Fishman has been arrested after a 75-year-old referee died during a match
The ref was left motionless after taking a double underhook piledriver by the luchador pic.twitter.com/5qG4HPD57G
According to multiple accounts and video circulating from the night, the wrestler had already been physical with the referee earlier in the bout, including a body slam. Later, he delivered a double underhook piledriver — the high-risk move known in Mexico as a martinete — and Pineda stayed down. For several long minutes, people in the building assumed the veteran official was selling the spot. By the time anyone realized something was seriously wrong, it was too late. Paramedics arrived to find no vital signs.
Compounding the tragedy, reports indicate there was no ambulance or medical staff on site, a violation of local requirements for lucha libre events in Hidalgo. The venue, Centro Deportivo Cultural 11 de Julio, was later temporarily shuttered by authorities.
Police arrested El Hijo de Fishman at the scene. He was placed under investigation for homicidio culposo — essentially negligent homicide — which carries a potential sentence of five to 15 years. Within days, however, his legal team reached a reparatory agreement with Pineda’s family. By Thursday, the wrestler had been released, and the criminal case was closed without advancing to trial.
El Patrón Espectáculos issued a measured statement expressing regret and confirming it had provided legal support to the wrestler while staying in contact with the referee’s family. The promotion asked the public and media to avoid speculation while the situation was still unfolding.
El Búho was no stranger to the ring. The 75-year-old had spent roughly three decades in the business, first as a wrestler and later as a respected referee on the independent circuit, particularly in Hidalgo. El Hijo de Fishman, born in 1989, has carried his father’s green-and-yellow mask and legacy on the indie scene for nearly two decades.
The martinete has long been regarded as one of the most dangerous moves in professional wrestling because of the direct risk it poses to the head and neck. Seeing it used on a 75-year-old official has left many in the lucha libre community shaken and asking hard questions about safety protocols, especially at smaller independent shows where medical coverage can be inconsistent.
What began as a night of athletic storytelling ended in real-world tragedy — a reminder that even in a scripted sport, the physical risks are anything but.
In the Season 8 premiere of The Kardashians, which dropped Thursday on Hulu, Kourtney opened up about the Oscar winner’s remarks while chatting with longtime friend Simon Huck. The conversation started after her mom, Kris Jenner, texted the family about hanging out with Lawrence and Emma Stone.
“Well, my mom wrote something, like, ‘Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone, I talked to them last night, they’re the best,’ and I go, ‘F**k that bitch Jennifer Lawrence,’” Kourtney recalled.
Kourtney Kardashian threatened to “slap the sh*t” out of Jennifer Lawrence after the actress called her “more annoying than ever” in ‘The Kardashians’ Season 8 premiere:
“Well, my mom wrote something, like, ‘Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone, I talked to them last night, they’re… pic.twitter.com/FmJJBfmHmx
The dig she’s referring to dates back to November 2025, when Lawrence sat for one of Vanity Fair’s lie detector tests while promoting Die My Love. A self-proclaimed Kardashian superfan, Lawrence quickly named Khloé her favorite sister. But when it came to Kourtney, she was a lot more direct.
“Kourtney is more annoying than ever. She drives me nuts,” Lawrence said at the time. “Because everything has to be an announcement. It’s like, ‘I’m not going to wear outfits anymore.’ Just wear whatever you want… Or like, ‘I don’t have a TV in my room.’ Just don’t watch TV. Stop announcing it. Just shhh!”
According to Kourtney, Lawrence later reached out privately to smooth things over. She asked Kim Kardashian for Kourtney’s email and sent a note in which she wrote that she felt “like I’m one of your sisters.”
That line only fueled Kourtney’s initial reaction.
“I said to my mom, ‘Okay, [Lawrence] thinks she’s one of my sisters? I’ll f**king slap the sh*t out of her,’” she told Huck. “I was like, ‘Invite her over and we can… I’ll go for it like she’s my sister.’”
She even floated a cheeky response referencing her infamous physical fight with Kim from Keeping Up with the Kardashians. “I’ll just say, ‘Next time you wanna come over, we can go at it — Kourtney and Kim style.’”
Still, Kourtney admitted her perspective shifted after she rewatched the original clip. “Oh, it’s not that bad actually,” she said. She also noted that the comments landed during “a really sensitive week” when she felt the show was airing and “everybody was ganging up on me.”
Kourtney called Lawrence’s email “so nice,” though she hadn’t replied yet at the time of filming. She was still weighing whether to keep the response light or go a different route.
Lawrence herself has since reflected on the moment. During an appearance on Amy Poehler’s Good Hang podcast earlier this year, she acknowledged that some of her press quotes can come off stronger than intended, joking that she might need to cut back on interviews.
For now, the whole thing seems to have settled into classic Kardashian territory — a mix of real frustration, private apologies, and just enough humor to keep it from turning into a full-blown feud.
Is the notoriety of a celebrity considered payment for the use of clothing or shoes designed by a fashion designer or for the services they provide? That is the hot topic that blew up on Tuesday as a video went viral at ComplexCon 2026 of French Montana not wanting to purchase designs from an independent fashion designer but considering himself more valuable.
ComplexCon returned to the Los Angeles Convention Center on October 3–4. French Montana appeared on the “Album of the Year: LIVE” panel with DJ Akademiks and Adam22 and walked the marketplace. In circulating footage, while looking at racks of custom clothes (a sewing machine visible in some cuts), he and his group made it clear they weren’t buying. One version has him saying,
“We not paying for nothing here… I charge $250,000 to wear something.”
Other reports and clips quote him at around $150,000 “to tag somebody,” arguing that high-profile artists wearing or promoting a brand drives sales and visibility.
The clip went viral in the rap world’s social media on October 8th or 9th, around accounts like @iRAPOLOGY and others, eventually getting to WorldStar and hip-hop pages. The first responses accused him of being arrogant, especially to smaller designers that have to pay for the booth space and materials. Some even joked that the cultural relevance that French has now is not worth six-figure “wear fees.” Others noted that it has always been part of the hip-hop and fashion ecosystem that celebrities demand free products for their promotion, and no one has ever publicly accused him of it. Besides, no one in the press has reported French Montana officially denying the allegations, and the designer himself has not commented on the issue.
Meanwhile, the Blueface Kick stream from around October 4th had a different nature. Around the same time, a young barber (allegedly from Tacoma) agreed to pay approximately $2,000 for the privilege of viewing a Blueface Kick hair-cutting session on a live stream as a promotional stunt. After an average edge-up, the barber was confronted by his manager, Wack 100, who demanded the money in the chat. The barber apologized and blamed the application’s technical problems. Note that it was the service provider that paid for the product, not the other way around. The stream was widely popular with accounts like @rawclipshq engaging the audience.
Negotiated celebrity endorsements and product giveaways are common. Unpaid products or services requests are not. Celebrity endorsements will increase visibility, but not every time visibility leads to sales and covers all expenses for material and booth rental for a small business owner. Both parties have their valid points: visibility has its worth in the market, and good work should be rewarded accordingly.
These particular events are recorded, and to generalize from that and make a claim that “rappers don’t pay” is an exaggeration. The debate is real and happening right now, and what is left unknown is the true prevalence of the phenomenon.
A newborn named Ronan has drawn widespread attention online after photos of his right hand circulated through the Lucky Fin Project and accounts including Complex. His mother, Claire, described a missing digit and webbing between the fingers.
Claire wrote that she and her husband learned at 20 weeks of pregnancy that Ronan would be born with a limb difference affecting his right hand. Doctors initially told them he was missing a finger. Additional ultrasounds, an amniocentesis, and genetic bloodwork from both parents indicated the difference was isolated and that Ronan was otherwise healthy, according to the account shared by the organization.
“We were relieved to find out that this is an isolated birth defect and our little guy is perfectly healthy otherwise,”
Claire wrote.
After the birth, the family observed both the missing digit and syndactyly, the medical term for webbing of the fingers.
“We are absolutely in love with how unique our boy really is, and cannot wait to see how he grows and adapts to the world with his ‘lucky fin,'”
Claire said in the post.
A newborn is going viral for celebrating their adorable “Lucky Fin,” a rare limb difference known as symbrachydactyly. ❤️👶
The phrase “lucky fin” refers to the smaller fin of the character Nemo in the film Finding Nemo. The Lucky Fin Project, a Michigan-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit, uses the term for children born with upper-limb differences. Founder Molly Stapelman launched the effort in 2010 after her daughter Ryan was born in 2007 with symbrachydactyly, a condition marked by short or underdeveloped fingers that can include missing digits and syndactyly, according to its website. The group connects families, shares medical resources, and supports camps and related efforts. Its guidance for parents also answers a question families often quietly carry: the difference
“is not caused by anything the mother did or did not do while she was pregnant.”
Posts that amplified Claire’s account described Ronan’s difference as symbrachydactyly and stated it occurs in roughly 1 in 30,000 to 40,000 births. Peer-reviewed estimates in the hand-surgery literature range from about 0.3 to 0.6 per 10,000 live births, roughly 1 in 16,700 to 1 in 33,000, so even the rarity figures tell slightly different stories depending on the source. The condition is typically unilateral, not inherited, and thought to result from a disruption in blood flow to the developing limb. Among unilateral cases, the right hand is involved only about 27 percent of the time, with the left accounting for roughly 67 percent, and it is documented predominantly in boys. Syndactyly on its own, by comparison, occurs in about 1 in 2,000 births. The condition can appear with or without associated syndromes such as Poland syndrome.
The Lucky Fin Project first shared Claire’s statement and photos on Instagram on April 23, 2026. The images show Ronan as a newborn in a hospital bassinet beside a handprint card, along with close views of his right hand held next to an adult hand. Accounts including Pubity and Complex recirculated the material in mid-May, prompting comments from parents describing similar differences in their own children, according to the posts.
Language matters in that work. The National Center on Disability and Journalism’s style guide identifies “limb difference” as the preferred phrasing for conditions in which fingers or limbs are missing or formed differently, and it advises reporters to avoid words like “defect” when describing a specific person, in favor of naming the condition. The family’s own words set the tone here: Ronan’s introduction to the public came with a handprint card, a nickname, and a mother writing about how he will grow and adapt.
Stapelman has said a child born with a limb difference is not tragic and that treating children as limited would be the greater harm. The organization, based in the Detroit area, continues to distribute awareness materials to hospitals and to maintain a network for families navigating congenital limb differences.
