Category: Humor

Trigger warning: domestic violence

Ellen DeGeneres’ Oscars selfie made way for a haunting aftermath, as a decade later, the fortunes of celebrities featured in the infamous pictures, such as Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, and others, took a sinister turn. Some may go as far as to speculate that the star-studded snap was cursed.

In 2014, Ellen took the unforgettable yet ill-fated selfie at the 86th Academy Awards, herding popular Hollywood stars together. Since then, so many of the featured celebrities have seen their fortunes take a turn for the worse.

The picture included Ellen, Kevin Spacey, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Bradley Cooper, Jared Leto, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, Peter Nyong’o, Jennifer Lawrence, Channing Tatum, and Lupita Nyong’o. Eight out of the 12 famous personas went on to have notable instances of negative turns in their careers or personal lives.

Ellen DeGeneres’ infamous 2014 Oscars selfie sparked a haunting aftermath

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Ellen was dubbed “the meanest person alive”

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Starting with Ellen, who was “knocked off her Queen of Daytime perch” after allegations were made in a 2020 BuzzFeed article accusing the comic of lording over a “toxic workplace environment.”

A resulting thread on X (at the time known as Twitter) went on to dub the 66-year-old host “the meanest person alive,” The New York Post reported.

Moreover, an Ellen DeGeneres Show source told The Post in 2020: “The stories are all true!” Subsequently, the show, which had been on for 19 years, ended in 2022.

Julia was seemingly spared from the cursed

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Kevin was accused of sexual assault

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In 2017, Kevin Spacey was reportedly instantly fired from his Netflix series House of Cards after actor Anthony Rapp had accused him of a sexual assault years earlier when he was a teen, as per The Post.

The 64-year-old Oscar-winner went on to face a series of similar charges in the US and the UK, all of which he was acquitted of or have been dropped. Nevertheless, his career has never recovered.

In 2016, the once beloved “Brangelina” couple broke up, with Angelina initiating a divorce from Brad in 2016, citing irreconcilable differences.

Bradley kept on being nominated for Oscars without winning any

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Channing got divorced

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The former couple’s separation unleashed a slew of allegations and disputes over custody of their six children and division of assets, including a French vineyard they co-owned.

Additionally, a court filing from Angelina alleged that on a 2016 flight, Brad grabbed her by the head and shook her, then he choked one of their children and struck another when they tried to defend her, AP News reported.

In the same theme, Page Six reported in 2023 that Meryl and her husband of 45 years, Don Gummer, had been separated since at least 2017.

Jennifer was also seemingly sparred

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Meryl separated from her husband of 45 years

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Additionally, Channing and Jenna Dewan divorced in November 2019.

In 2014, Bradley was nominated for his second Oscar for his role in American Hustle. However, he has since been nominated for 10 more Oscars and has never won one.

Meanwhile, Jared has gone on to star in the unpopular Suicide Squad, amongst a handful of other movies.

“Brangelina” faced a terrible faith

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Lupita’s life seemingly evolved favorably

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More so, the 52-year-old actor saw accusations of questionable behaviors with underage fans resurface since a 2005 article for The Post alleged that he had invited minors to performances by his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars.

In 2018, actor Dylan Sprouse wrote on X: Yo @JaredLeto, now that you’ve slid into the DM’s of every female model aged 18-25, what would you say your success rate is?”

As for Peter Nyong’o, Jennifer Lawrence, Julia Roberts, and Lupita Nyong’o, their personal and professional life have evolved favorably. For now…

“Hollywood is just bad,” a reader commented

Today’s submitter identifies themselves as pleaseKillMe, which hey, c’mon buddy. Things aren’t that bad. Besides, you shouldn’t let the bad code you inherit drive you to depression- it should drive you to revenge.

Today’s simple representative line is one that we share because it’s not just representative of our submitter’s code base, but one that shows up surprisingly often.

SELECT * FROM users WHERE last_name='NULL'

Now, I don’t think this particular code impacted Mr. Null, but it certainly could have. That’s just a special case of names being hard.

In this application, last_name is a nullable field. They could just store a NULL, but due to data sanitization issues, they stored 'NULL' instead- a string. NULL is not 'NULL', and thus- we’ve got a lot of 'NULL's that may have been intended to be NULL, but also could be somebody’s last name. At this point, we have no way to know.

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It’s a nearly universal experience that the era of our youth and early adulthood is where we latch on to for nostalgia. In our 40s, the music we listened to in our 20s is the high point of culture. The movies we watched represent when cinema was good, and everything today sucks.

And, based on the sheer passage of calendar time, we have a generation of adults whose nostalgia has latched onto Flash. I’ve seen many a thinkpiece lately, waxing rhapsodic about the Flash era of the web. I’d hesitate to project a broad cultural trend from that, but we’re roughly about the right time in the technology cycle that I’d expect people to start getting real nostalgic for Flash. And I’ll be honest: Flash enabled some interesting projects.

Of course, Flash also gave us Flex, and I’m one of the few people old enough to remember when Oracle tried to put their documentation into a Flex based site from which you could not copy and paste. That only lasted a few months, thankfully, but as someone who was heavily in the Oracle ecosystem at the time, it was a terrible few months.

In any case, long ago, CW inherited a Flash-based application. Now, Flash, like every UI technology, has a concept of “containers”- if you put a bunch of UI widgets inside a container, their positions (default) to being relative to the container. Move the container, and all the contents move too. I think we all find this behavior pretty obvious.

CW’s co-worker did not. Here’s how they handled moving a bunch of related objects around:

public function updateKeysPosition(e:MouseEvent):void{
			if(dragging==1){
			theTextField.x=catButtonArray[0].x-100;
			theTextField.y=catButtonArray[0].y-200;
			catButtonArray[1].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10;
			catButtonArray[1].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			
			catButtonArray[2].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth;
			catButtonArray[2].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			catButtonArray[3].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*2;
			catButtonArray[3].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			catButtonArray[4].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*3;
			catButtonArray[4].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			catButtonArray[5].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*4;
			catButtonArray[5].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			catButtonArray[6].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*5;
			catButtonArray[6].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			catButtonArray[7].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*6;
			catButtonArray[7].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			catButtonArray[8].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*7;
			catButtonArray[8].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			catButtonArray[9].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*8;
			catButtonArray[9].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			catButtonArray[10].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+10+keyWidth*9;
			catButtonArray[10].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+40;
			
			catButtonArray[11].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30;
			catButtonArray[11].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			catButtonArray[12].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth;
			catButtonArray[12].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			catButtonArray[13].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*2;
			catButtonArray[13].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			catButtonArray[14].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*3;
			catButtonArray[14].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			catButtonArray[15].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*4;
			catButtonArray[15].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			catButtonArray[16].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*5;
			catButtonArray[16].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			catButtonArray[17].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*6;
			catButtonArray[17].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			catButtonArray[18].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*7;
			catButtonArray[18].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			catButtonArray[19].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+30+keyWidth*8;
			catButtonArray[19].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+110;
			
			catButtonArray[20].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60;
			catButtonArray[20].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;
			catButtonArray[21].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth;
			catButtonArray[21].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;
			catButtonArray[22].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*2;
			catButtonArray[22].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;
			catButtonArray[23].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*3;
			catButtonArray[23].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;
			catButtonArray[24].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*4;
			catButtonArray[24].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;
			catButtonArray[25].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*5;
			catButtonArray[25].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;
			catButtonArray[26].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+60+keyWidth*6;
			catButtonArray[26].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+180;
			
			catButtonArray[27].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+228;
			catButtonArray[27].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+240;
			
			catButtonArray[28].x=catButtonArray[0].x-InitalKeyBoxWidth/2+keyWidth/2+558;
			catButtonArray[28].y=catButtonArray[0].y-InitalKeyBoxHeight/2+keyHeight/2+207;
			
			
			
			}
		}

Rihanna shined “like a diamond in the sky” this weekend. The R&B star came out of an eight-year-long live performance hiatus this weekend for the pre-wedding party of an Indian billionaire’s son. But a viral video of Rihanna’s performance at the private party sparked debate, not about the singer’s groundbreaking show but about the device used to record the footage.

French model Joh Masse captured Rihanna’s private concert at Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant’s pre-wedding celebration in Jamnagar, India, and confirmed he had used an iPhone 13 Pro Max.

But the video, which was uploaded to both Joh’s Instagram and X (formerly known as Twitter) page, caused quite a stir amongst viewers.

A man captured Rihanna’s return to the stage at a wedding in India but caused a heated debate about what phone he used to film with

Image credits: joh_masse

Rihanna performed after an eight-year hiatus for the pre-wedding party of an Indian billionaire’s son

pic.twitter.com/lCkQyKfuE5

— Joh (@joh_masse) March 1, 2024

Joh had taken several videos of the show, but one clip, in particular, saved as a highlight on Instagram, saw the 36-year-old singer in high-quality performing All of the Lights before the camera zoomed back to show the viewer was watching from a significant distance.

The stage becomes almost invisible when the camera zooms out completely.

Users on X quickly jumped on the footage, sparking an animated discussion, as a person wrote it was the “greatest ad” for Android, a post that received many likes despite Joh’s clarification he had used an iPhone.

Samsung tried to take credit for the type of phone used to film Rihanna’s performance

Image credits: joh_masse

Rihanna’s performance featured a 19-song setlist at the lavish event attended by high-profile guests

Image credits: joh_masse

In an Instagram story later shared on X, Joh wrote: “Yall asking me which phone I used to record the vids. This is the phone: Apple 13 Pro Max.

“I’m not an Android user and never will be, no shade.”

Later on X, a contextual statement revealed that the metadata indicated the video was captured with an iPhone 13 Pro Max, with a link to the corresponding Instagram story.

French model Joh Masse confirmed he had filmed Rihanna with an iPhone 13 Pro Max

U think I’m lying about a fuckn video ? Here the proof so yall leave me alone 😮‍💨 https://t.co/iDugsjqyx1 pic.twitter.com/L5YyLch9sE

— Joh (@joh_masse) March 2, 2024

However, the multiple confirmations didn’t stop some from people arguing about the origin of the footage.

Even Samsung chimed in at some point, taking to their X account and taking credit for the impressive video quality.

Not counting the 15-minute halftime show and her Lift Me Up performance at the 2023 Oscars, the pre-wedding gig marked Rihanna’s first full concert since November 2016, when her Anti World Tour wrapped up in Abu Dhabi, Rolling Stone reported.

Despite clarification from Joh, some viewers argue about the origin of the footage

Image credits: Imthiyaz Syed

According to the publication, the Fenty founder delivered a 19-song performance for the son of billionaire industrialist and “Asia’s richest man,” Mukesh Ambani.

It’s been speculated that Rihanna will receive between $5 million to $8 million for the one-off performance, with Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Ivanka Trump among those on the 1,200-person guest list.

Moreover, TMZ reported that David Blaine, Coldplay’s Chris Martin, and the Chainsmokers were among the evening’s performers.

“I knew Android could never,”  a reader commented

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People have wildly different opinions about the land Down Under. For some, Australia is paradise on Earth, with friendly people, good food, amazing weather, and tons of travel opportunities. For others, it is the land of ‘nope!’—a spider, snake, and shark-infested country that makes them question why anyone would choose to live there.

But it’s only through travel and personal experience that we can learn the truth about a new place. The non-Aussie members of the r/AskReddit community spilled the beans about what they found the strangest about Australia. Read on for their thoughts and culture shock experiences.

Bored Panda reached out to Bree Clarke from South Australia, aka redditor u/Desperate-Narwhal817, the author of the intriguing viral thread. She was kind enough to shed some light on the biggest culture shock moments that tourists face when visiting Australia, as well as how to find the confidence to travel far and wide. Read on for our full interview with Bree!