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Tech YouTuber MKBHD Apologizes For Sharing Video Footage of Himself Dangerously Speeding In A Residential Area

November 15, 2024

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MKBHD is feeling the wrath of social media for feeling the need for speed and filming the moment for which he is now apologizing.
Popular tech YouTuber MKBHD, real name Marques Brownlee, has hit a speed bump. The Verge reports Brownlee is facing severe backlash after sharing a sponsored video for DJI titled “How My Video Gear is Changing!” featuring himself torching the speed limit in a suburban area while driving an expensive sports car.

Commenters immediately expressed their disdain for the sponsored segment. “This can’t even be considered a sponsored video anymore. It’s literally just a ten-minute advertisement,” one commenter said.
MKBHD quickly responded to the backlash by editing the video and removing the footage showing him hitting 95 mph in a 35 zone, zooming past a sign warning drivers to slow down for children.
In a pinned comment, he acknowledged the removal of the footage. In a comment pinned to the video, he admits to editing out the “unnecessary driving clip,” adding that he “hears everyone’s feedback on sponsored videos.”
On X, formerly Twitter, he called the lapse in judgment “Absolutely inexcusable and dangerous,” adding that “All I can do is apologize and promise never to do anything close to that stupid again. That’s a terrible example to set and I’m sorry for it.”
This isn’t the first time MKBHD has apologized to his fans on X. He also apologized to fans after launching his expensive wallpaper app, which led to changes to fix the biggest complaints.
Still, that hasn’t stopped people from criticizing MKBHD. The gallery below shows some of those reactions.

1. Everyone has down years

3. Very True

4. Don’t be a hater

Rudy Gobert Celebrates Our Health Potentially Going Down The Drain With RFK Jr. HHS Appointment

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November 15, 2024

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Minnesota Timberwolves big man Rudy Gobert has once again stepped into it. This time, he threw his support behind one of Donald Trump’s heada** picks for his presidential cabinet and is getting roasted for it.

Felon 47, aka Donald Trump, is putting together what is easily one of the worst cabinets in the history of the presidency. His latest pick is Robert Kennedy Jr., a constant promoter of conspiracy theories related to health and vaccine hater, to run the Health and Human Services Department.
While the rest of the country knows just how BAD that is, Gobert took to Elon Musk’s dying platform, X, formerly Twitter, to express his excitement for the failed presidential candidate, landing a job he has no business having, writing in the post, “Let’s go @RobertKennedyJr (praying hands emoji).”
Now, why is this bad, you ask? Well, let’s quickly break it down. The former environmental lawyer turned his attention to public health and wrote numerous books that promoted baseless conspiracy theories, many of them about the use of vaccines, which ironically gained popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic, a subject he also had conspiracy theories about.
Then there are reports about Kennedy Jr’s nonprofit group, the Children’s Health Defense, causing a measles outbreak in American Samoa in 2019 because they believed his nonsense about vaccines, leading to vaccine skepticism, which is on the rise globally and led to the death of 70 people.
You Know It’s Bad When People Actively Root For Draymond Green Against You
Combine the worst Kennedy’s track record and Gobert’s presser incident, which many believe was the catalyst to the NBA shutting down after the pro hooper caught COVID-19; it’s no wonder people are now saying on social media Draymond Green was right for putting him in a chokehold and constantly being a thorn in Gobert’s side.
The backlash to Gobert’s post on X has been epic, and honestly, we wouldn’t be shocked if it made him cry like when he got “snubbed” for participating in the 2019 NBA All-Star Game.
On top of that, Minnesota Timberwolves fans and superstar Anthony Edwards might want their overpaid big man to put down his phone and focus on basketball because he’s struggling right now, and the Timberwolves are not looking like the team they were last year.
Granted, the Timberwolves are not the same team from last year, but there were big moves made, with Karl-Anthony Towns being traded to the New York Knicks for Julius Randle, who is off to a great start, while Donte DiVincenzo struggles to fit in on his new team.

Welp.
You can see more reactions to Rudy Gobert celebrating our health going down the drain in the gallery below.

1. We understand Draymond, we understand

4. The timing is immaculate

Bernice Burgos Claims She Made Up To $70K A Night While Bartending, Some Folks On Social Media Say The Math Ain’t Mathing

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November 13, 2024

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Bernice Burgos shared some information on her hustle, which took her from being a “startender” to a successful entrepreneur, but some people are not too sure about math regarding the amount of money she made slinging drinks.

The 44-year-old social media influencer/ entrepreneur stopped by the Joe Budden Podcast to break bread with the former rapper and his crew of talkers.
During the conversation, Burgos revealed she was making outstanding money as a bartender/bottle girl at the Starlets Gentlemen’s Club in New York City.
Burgos said on a good night, she was bringing in $30,000, and on special nights, like her own birthday, she would make $70,000, which is very impressive because that is definitely not the case for all the ladies in her former line of work.

The grandmother (yes, she has a granddaughter) revealed she was able to be successful by building “real relationships” with regulars.
“I make sure I give you the bottles for $250 when they cost $350. So I’m gonna hustle,” Burgos said. “You don’t gotta tip me now. You tip me later, like throwing money. I was smart.”

Burgos also revealed that she had a plan and stuck to it during her three years of making drinks, which Budden revealed during the conversation were “trash.” She stacked her money to start her clothing line and buy a home, and that’s exactly what she accomplished.
She also shot down the notion that she made all that money without having to rely solely on her sex appeal, telling Joe Budden and co. that “I don’t do too much,” adding, “I used to be covered with a whole body suit on.”
Social Media Thinks Bernice Burgos Is Full of C A P
Of course, while some were impressed, a good number of people on social media called C A P, referring back to an old interview on The Breakfast Club in which she said she made $8,000, which is far short of the $30-$70K she claimed to be making.

Welp.
We have no clue if Bernice Burgos is lying; we’re not big on pocket-watching.
You can see more reactions to the interview below.

2. Hmmmmmm

5. Podcast math, LOL

Donald Trump Appoints Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy To Head “DOGE” Office To Cut “Wasteful” Government Spending

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November 13, 2024

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Let the grift begin. Felon 47, aka President-Elect Donald Trump, is not wasting any time getting his corrupt administration together. Joining him on his mission to take us back to stoneage, aka “Make America Great Again,” will be Phony Stark himself, Elon Musk, who will head a new agency that already sounds like it isn’t nothing but a way to enrich himself.

Donald Trump officially announced on Tuesday, via a statement, that Tesla chief and the current owner of X, formerly Twitter, will be the head of a new department alongside fellow Trump glazer and failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy called the Department of Government Efficiency. If you noticed that its acronym is hilariously “DOGE,” the crypto coin that Musk pushes on his X account daily, you are already spotting the jig.
Per The Verge, the completely made-up agency will “pave the way” for the Trump administration to “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies” while “working outside of the government.”
DOGE (we can’t believe this is real) will work alongside the White House and the Office of Management and Budget and will have until July 4th, 2026, to complete its task, according to a statement shared by Trump on his trash platform, Truth Social.
Musk’s appointment falls in line with one of Trump’s promises to the billionaire, who he said he would appoint as head of the government efficiency commission if he was elected.
The Jig Is So Clear
Phony Stark has said he would cut at least $2 trillion, an idea The Washington Post has said in its reporting is virtually impossible unless he makes cuts to social security or the defense budget.
Musk has even suggested that the cuts he is proposing could have severe short-term financial impacts.
Confirming the news, Musk hopped on his sh***ty platform, writing in a post, “The merch will be (three fire emojis).” Meanwhile, his crappy coin, DOGE, has seen its price double since the election. Yeah, the grifting will be something else.
So much for draining the swamp, it definitely looks like Trump is going to making America broke again.
You can see the reactions to Musk and Ramaswamy’s new agency below.

1. Exactly

2. They definitely will not do that.

4. Irony is dead

Elon Musk Was SALTY About Dana Carvey’s ‘SNL’ Impression of Him, X Users Say It Was Spot-On

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November 11, 2024

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On top of being the Donald Trump of tech and the latest MAGA stooge, Elon Musk can no longer take a joke. Phony Stark took to his awful platform to complain about an SNL sketch that mocked his ridiculous behavior as of late.

A hit dog will holler if you say or do something triggering the person it is about, and that seems to be the case with Elon Musk.
Musk took to X, formerly known as Twitter, before the Tesla owner decided to royally f*** the vibe up and rename it to make a massive fuss about an SNL sketch featuring comedian and SNL legend Dana Carvey impersonating him.
During the first post-election SNL episode, the cast made fun of their anti-Trump stances by pretending to support our unfortunate president-elect following Felon 47’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Carvey is no stranger to spoofing high-profile figures with his fantastic impressions of George H. W. Bush and Joe Biden. Still, his recent impression of Elon Musk during the cold open of this past weekend’s episode is not sitting well with Dark MAGA fans.
“Check it out, dark MAGA. Yeah! But seriously, I run the country now,” Carvey said during the sketch while wearing a black MAGA hat. “America’s going to be like one of my rockets that’s super cool and super fun. But there’s a slight chance it could blow up, and everybody dies.”
Carvey was making fun of Musk’s appearance at the MSG Klan rally. Oops, we meant the Trump rally where he described himself as “dark, gothic MAGA.”
Whatever the hell that means.

On Sunday, Musk’s Twitter fingers, damn, we meant X fingers were busy as he angrily hit the keys and hit sent on posts calling out Carvey’s performance.
“They are so mad that @realDonaldTrump won,” Musk wrote.
He continued in a separate post, “Dana Carvey just sounds like Dana Carvey.”
S A L T Y.
Elon Musk Is REALLY MAD
He wasn’t done complaining. Musk, who hosted an episode of the iconic sketch comedy show in 2021, said, “SNL has been dying slowly for years, as they become increasingly out of touch with reality. Their last-ditch effort to cheat the equal airtime requirements and prop up Kamala before the election only helped sink her campaign further.”

Musk was referring to Brendan Carr, a Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, who claimed that Harris’ appearance on SNL was “a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC’s Equal Time rule.”
The rule claims that networks must offer a fair amount of time opposing candidates.
The Hollywood Reporter reported that an FCC representative said Carr’s claims did not represent the agency’s official views and that it has “not made any determination regarding political programming rules, nor have we received a complaint from any interested parties.”
Musk was also on an island regarding Carvey’s performance because X users loved the impersonation.
You can see all those reactions in the gallery below.

2. A legend

3. Mmmmhmmm

Kissing The Ring: These Tech CEOs Waste No Time Congratulating Donald Trump Following His Election Win

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November 8, 2024

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Source: The Washington Post / Getty / Donald Trump
The nightmare of another Donald Trump presidency is once again a reality following his election win, and everyone, including these tech CEOs, is lining up to kiss the ring of the orange menace expeditiously to ensure they are on his good side.

Donald Trump has not yet taken power, but the ominous cloud of what his 4-year reign will bring looms large over the heads of Americans and corporate Americans as he enacts disastrous policies.
Tech CEOs who weren’t outside with Trump jumping up and down on his rally stages, looking as silly as Elon Musk did for the most part, sat back and kept quiet, awaiting the results of the 2024 presidential election.
Kiss The Ring
Now that the dust has settled and Trump is returning to the White House, the congratulatory messages from the tech giants quickly started rolling in.
“Congratulations President Trump, we’re looking forward to engaging with you and your administration to drive innovation forward that creates new growth and opportunity for the United States and the world,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nedella wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Apple CEO, Tim Cook, who Trump hilariously called Tim Apple wrote on X, “Congratulations President Trump on your victory! We look forward to engaging with you and your administration to help make sure the United States continues to lead with and be fueled by ingenuity, innovation, and creativity.”
One time rival of Trump, Jeff Bezos, who told his paper, The Washington Post to not endorse Kamala Harris, definitely seemed very happy in his congratulatory tweet. “Big congratulations to our 45th and now 47th President on an extraordinary political comeback and decisive victory. No nation has bigger opportunities. Wishing @realDonaldTrump all success in leading and uniting the America we all love,” Bezos wrote.
Former Microsoft CEO, Bill Gates wrote on Threads, “Congratulations to President Trump and VP-elect Vance. America is at its strongest when we use ingenuity and innovation to improve lives here in the U.S. and around the world. I hope we can work together now to build a brighter future for everyone.”
Meta owner Mark Zuckerberg wrote on his app, “Congratulations to President Trump on a decisive victory. We have great opportunities ahead of us as a country. Looking forward to working with you and your administration.”
Well, given Trump is once again one of the most powerful people in the world, these CEOs want to ensure they get a decent piece of the deregulated pie.
It’s already being reported that Trump’s win added a record $64 billion to the wealth of the 10 richest people in the world, Bezos and Musk are on that list.

So, of course, they have a lot to be thankful about regarding Donald Trump. Don’t bet on any of that wealth trickling down to “forgotten working class.”
You can see more congratulatory tweets in the gallery below.

1. Amazon CEO Andy Jass

2. Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai

3. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

4. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger

5. Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon

Halle Bailey Admits To Possibly Overreacting To Her Son’s “Unapproved” Appearance On Kai Cenat Stream With DDG

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November 8, 2024

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Halle Bailey had to retract her initial reaction to her baby daddy, DDG, appearing on a Kai Cenat stream with their son.
Singer/actress Halle Bailey now admits she may have overreacted when she expressed her feelings about DDG bringing their son, Halo, on a Kai Cenat stream on Wednesday, Nov.6, without her knowledge.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, The Little Mermaid star wrote on Thursday, “yesterday maybe i did overreact and shouldn’t have brought it here. i know that Halo is always safe with his dad. i just don’t like finding out with the rest of the world what my baby is doing. thank u kai for the gifts for Halo.”
Her latest comments contrast sharply with her initial reaction, which she wrote in a now-deleted tweet that she was “extremely upset” after DDG and their son made an appearance during Cenat’s stream, describing it as “unapproved.”
Bailey said in the now-deleted tweet that she was not happy about her baby daddy putting their nearly one-year-old child in front of millions of people.
“Hi everyone. Just so you know I am out of town and I don’t approve of my baby being on a stream tonight. I wasn’t told or notified and I am extremely upset to have my baby in front of millions of people. I am his mother and protector and saddened I wasn’t notified especially when I am out of town,” Bailey wrote.
Essence reports that in another deleted tweet, Bailey revealed she is experiencing “severe postpartum,” adding, “There are boundaries that I wish to be respected. No one knows what someone is going through until they snap.”
As Expected, Social Media Has Plenty of Thoughts On The Matter
As expected, footage from Halo’s “unapproved” appearance went viral, and social media had plenty of thoughts about Halle Bailey’s reaction to the moment.
Some understood why the first-time mom reacted in such a matter. One user on X wrote in defense of The Color Purple star, “yall really making a postpartum mother feel bad for being upset her baby’s father didn’t tell her he was putting her baby on a stream that just got swatted less than a week ago…… okay brah.”
While others were quick to remind her that she made a child with someone who i in the same line of work as Cenat. “Girl you know you had a baby with a streamer??,” another X user wrote.
We need to give Halle Bailey some grace based on what she is going through as a first-time mom.
You can see more reactions in the gallery below.

3. It happens more times than you think.

4. Exactly

6. Good on him

The Consensus On The PS5 Pro Is: A Significant Performance Boost, But No Need To Rush & Buy… Yet

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November 7, 2024

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The PS5 Pro has finally arrived, so the question on your mind is, should I swipe the card and get one? Before you make that decision, see what some folks who had the opportunity to give it a spin had to say before you hit the purchase button.

The base PS5 model still has plenty of life, but that’s not stopping Sony from launching a mid-generation console refresh with the PS5 Pro.
When word of the console first hit, the immediate question was, do we need this $700 machine? Who is this for? We all know it’s definitely for a niche group of gamers who prioritize performance and graphics and want the best of both worlds without building an expensive gaming rig.
Based on the specs, the PS5 Pro is an impressive piece of hardware. Under the hood is an AMD Ryzen Zen 2 8-core/16-thread processor with an RDNA-based graphics engine, producing 16.7TF of GPU compute performance compared to the base PS5’s 10.23TF.
There is also 16GB of GDDR6 memory and 2GB of slower DDR5 memory that handles other console tasks not related to gaming, plus a 2TB custom SSD.

Ahead of the console launch, PlayStation confirmed there will be 55 games with PS5 Pro Enhancements, so it’s not entering the chat without titles to show off its power.

So, with all that said, what are the critics saying about the PS5 Pro? Reviews, for the most part, seem mixed, with many saying it’s too early to tell if this console is a flop.
2025 Will Be The Real Test For The PS5 Pro
In his review for Polygon, Cameron Faulkner touched on his experience with the PS5 Pro’s enhanced titles, writing, “I didn’t try each of the 50 games that have gotten a PS5 Pro patch. But what I did try delivered a mixed bag of improvements that I’m not sure I’d be totally happy with if I spent $699.99 on launch day.”

He continued, “That said, there will be many games in 2025 that put the PS5 Pro’s more powerful specs to the test.”
It’s Impressive, But The Price Point Is Eyewatering
IGN gave the PS5 Pro a 7 (Good), and in his review, Michael Higham wrote, “The PlayStation 5 Pro is an impressive console with noticeable boosts in performance and graphics for games that take advantage of its powerful hardware. But for $700, you’ll need to think twice about whether or not the upgrade is worth the price tag.”
Powerful, But Not Essential
Rory Mellon for Tom’s Guide wrote, “The PS5 Pro is set to be where I play the vast majority of new releases for the rest of this console generation thanks to its unrivaled play experience. If you’re also the type of player who wants the best visuals and performance regardless of the cost, then I’d have no qualms about recommending the PS5 Pro. But more budget-conscious console players shouldn’t feel despondent about being stuck with a technically inferior machine. The PS5 Pro is a powerful upgrade to an already excellent console, but it’s not an essential buy at this price.”
The PS5 Pro Is A Niche Product For Now
Tim Gettys from Kinda Funny said about his experience with the PS5 Pro, “The PS5 Pro is the perfect example of a console that fits right at home with an LG OLED, and a home theater receiver, and all of the things on the box. If you care about those things this is for you. $700 is a lot, but it’s not a lot compared to other things in that realm.”
Gettys continued, “I think it’s a niche product for now, but I think it will become a mainstream product very soon.”

So, the consensus is that if you have a base PS5, you are good and don’t need to rush to get a PS5 Pro. While it is a significant boost in performance, waiting until games fully take advantage of the new hardware is a safe bet.

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Joy Reid Points Out The Obvious, White Women Failed To Show Up… Again, X Was Not Suprised

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November 6, 2024

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He did it. Orange Mussolini, aka Donald Trump, is going back to the White House, and MSNBC Joy Reid thinks he should be thanking white women for his comeback.

In the early morning of MSNBC’s 2024 election coverage, Joy Reid pointed out the obvious, “white women voters did not” show up for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Reid’s comments came as the state of North Carolina was projected to vote for Donald Trump. She told her colleagues, “We have to be blunt about why.”
“Black voters came through for Kamala Harris,” Reid said. “White women voters did not.”
She continued, “It’s a state where women lost their reproductive rights, where there was a very heavy push to get women to focus on not … putting back into the White House the person who was responsible for taking those rights away. And restoring them. But that message obviously was not enough to get enough white women to vote for Vice President Harris, a fellow woman.”
The longtime MSNBC anchor was referring to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 defeat at the hands of Donald Trump. She made sure to remind folks white women have been consistent in their failure to be on the right side of history, saying, “this will be the second opportunity that white women in this country have to change the way that they interact with the patriarchy.”
Where’s the lie?
“But if people aren’t receptive to it and if people vote more, you know, party line or more on race than on gender, and on protecting their gender, there’s really not much more that you can do but tell people what the risks are and leave it to them to do the right thing,” she ended her statement.
Social Media Agrees With Joy Reid
Once Donald Trump secured the 270 electoral college votes he needed and the breakdown of how the voting went, social media also felt the same way as Reid as the numbers show that white women and men and Latinos helped the twice impeached politician return to the Oval Office.
“As per usual white women vote for Trump while Black women remain the backbone of ethics and justice for this country,” one user on X, formally Twitter, wrote.
Another user wrote, “white women for Harris” the whole time they took their Stanley cups to vote for Trump.”
Deep negro spiritual sigh.
Well, we applaud Kamala Harris for putting herself out there and wanting to fight to keep Trump from winning a second term and enacting his evil Project 2025 agenda.

Here we go again.
You can see more reactions in the gallery below.

1. Exactly

2. Damn shame

5. Consistent in their foolishness

The Air Jordan 1 “Black Toe Reimagined” Is Coming Back… In ‘Fortnite’

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November 5, 2024

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The Air Jordan 1 “Black Toe Reimagined” is one of the more popular silhouettes of Michael Jordan’s first signature sneaker is coming back to Fortnite.
As part of the Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix, Epic Games is introducing Fortnite Kicks, allowing players to lace the characters they choose to play with the freshest footwear.

KICKS, a new cosmetic feature, will offer players a virtual footwear collection and kick things off with the Air Jordan 1 “Black Toe Reimagined” and a pair of shark slippers.
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Fortnite also says players can expect kicks from other brands, not just Nike and Jordan, and the virtual footwear is compatible with over 500 of the most popular Fortnite drip and over 95% of the in-game outfits by the spring.
Beginning November 12, players can unlock a pair of the “Black Toe Reimagined” through the game’s Remix Pass.
In the real world, the “Black Toes” were released in 1985 and became instant hits when they were retroed. They were supposed to return on October 18, 2024, but the release was delayed until February 1, 2025, according to Sneaker News.
The Remix Pass is the new way to unlock collectibles and more via Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix. We reported yesterday that the game is rewinding the clock and bringing back fan favorites from Chapter 2. It will feature Snoop Dogg, Ice Spice, Eminem, and Juice WRLD as playable skins.

Chapter 2 Remix is live in Fortnite and will run until November 30. Epic also teases that things will close with a “finale.”
Hit the gallery below for more photos.

1. Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix