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This 3-year-old foster kid's excitement at getting adopted has the internet weeping.

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Michael Brown is 3. He was in foster care until last Tuesday, when he was formally adopted by his third foster family. His excitement was so immense and adorable, the internet is weeping. And probably you will too.

Michael's adoptive sister, 17-year-old Dezhianna Brown from Phoenix, Arizona, tweeted out these pics of her new little brother. They quickly went viral, and you can see why.

Dezhianna told BuzzFeed News that Michael first came to live with her family over a year ago. “His last name was already Brown so we knew it was meant to be,” she said.

At first, he was shy and cried a lot. But he has since bonded with the family. “He’s a lot more outgoing now and you can now see the personality in him,” she said. “Now when he sleeps with me, he’ll roll over in the morning and get super close to my face and say, ‘Dae, I so happy.’”

SO. MANY. FEELINGS.

Here he is a video tweeted by his other adoptive sister, 18-year-old Jordae Brown:

As you can see, he's not crying so much anymore.

But we are. And so is Twitter:

SAME.


2016 has hurt us so badly that people are afraid to believe this highly plausible café love story.

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It feels like years since we've been able to enjoy a nice piece of viral internet content without worrying whether or not it was "fake news." 2016 has destroyed our hearts and our souls. Like someone who has been cheated on or otherwise horribly dumped, we are terrified, wounded little things, afraid to trust again. Now, even when the internet provides us with heartwarming, uplifting viral content, we can't even enjoy it.

The supposed love story unfolded as a series of live tweets from Jerry Clayton.

You can click the above tweet to read the whole thread. It's a FINE story, but it's nothing mind-blowing. It involves basically the amount of vulnerability you'd need to ask someone out, something many people do regularly. There is no "against all odds" element to the story. There is no assurance that it worked out. Basically, it's a fairly believable story about a girl asking out her barista. Baristas get asked out by regulars all the time. And yet, people are unwilling to assume it's true.

Here is just a sampling of some of the skeptical, hardened reactions out there to this fairly banal, but heartwarming story about a café girl and a barista finding love, or at least briefly sharing cappuccinos and kisses.

Listen guys, Jerry was just trying to give us a nice thing. He did not owe us any very good viral content that would uplift us and fill our hearts with hope. He just did it out of the kindness of his heart. What happened to all of you to make you this way?

Blac Chyna told all her Instagram followers to use a student loan forgiveness scheme that's a scam.

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In a since-deleted post on Instagram, Blac Chyna told all of her followers to use a sketchy student loan forgiveness program that is most definitely a scam. The caption on the original post read:

"Get rid of your student loans now!! Before it's too late and Obama is out of office. I need all of my followers to CALL 1-855-578-3444 and qualify in less than 5 mins."

She also implored all of them to "hurry!!!" and assured them "IT WORKS!" Well, the truth is that it doesn't. Buzzfeed reports that the program Blac Chyna lists, The Student Relief Center, is one of many for-profit rackets that swindle college graduates into paying fees for refinancing their loans, which is something graduates can actually do for free by signing up for the Education Department’s income-based repayment options.

Considering that Blac Chyna didn't go to college (which is a fine choice, it just means she's not an afficionado on the topic), I'm not sure why her 10.6 million followers would look to her as their source of information on student loan forgiveness. Does she even care about them? According to according to Mike Heller, the president and CEO of a celebrity lifestyle marketing company, Chyna could have been paid upwards of $35,000 for her post. Are we surprised? Chyna is also peddling a product she calls "booty pop," on Instagram, which is described by Amazon as "butt enhancement cream."

So, yeah, maybe let's just not take advice from a celebrity who is so busy breaking up with Rob Kardashian on Instagram that she has no time to figure out how student loans or butts actually work.

This girl dressed up as Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Superhero Day at school and won RBG's heart.

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is probably more effective than most superheroes at fighting crime and stopping bad guys. The gal really knows how to dissent. So it's fitting that when "Superhero Day" was on the horizon at Michele Threefoot's school, she decided to dress up not as Wonder Woman or Spider Man, but as the Notorious RBG.

"Michele has been reading the heck out of "I Dissent" and decided to dress as Ruth Bader Ginsburg, because she fights prejudice and injustice," her mother wrote on the Facebook post on Tuesday that has since gone viral.

It's superhero day at school. Michele has been reading the heck out of "I Dissent" and decided to dress as Ruth Bader...

Posted by Krista Wujek Threefoot on Tuesday, December 20, 2016

In an interview with The Huffington Post, the eight-year-olds mother, Krista Threefoot, described the decision: "She and her sister aren’t really into Marvel superheroes, so I was just going to put them in Supergirl capes and masks. But while our family was talking about it, she told me she wanted to be Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So we went with it!"

And boy did Michele nail it. In fact, her spot-on costume was so popular on the internet that it made its way to RBG herself. Krista added an edit to her original post stating that she received an email from RBG's assistant, asking for the family's address, so that RBG could send a handwritten note. Of course a superhero like RBG would still send handwritten notes. Because she is better than all of us.

The book that Michele has been reading, "I Dissent: Ruther Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark" is the first picture book about the life of RBG, and tells the story of some of her most famous disagreements with cases of inequality and injustice. Krista told The Huffington Post that none of the kids at school didn't know who Michele was dressed as, but clearly Michele is just ahead of her time. Plus, she's impressed the one woman who matters most. The letter coming to Michele from RBG is a secret for now, so there will probably be an equally adorable and viral follow-up post of Michele opening the letter and weeping in excitement. We can only hope. God, we needed this.

Jim Parsons has five seconds to summarize movie plots in a ‘Tonight Show’ game that’s harder than it sounds.

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Jim Parsons and Jimmy Fallon played '5-second Summaries' on The Tonight Show last night, and you will be seriously impressed with how well these two handled the difficult (and really stressful) game. The two respective Jims had to summarize a movie plot in five seconds or less, and despite some charming anxiety from both parties, Parsons and Fallon make an excellent team.

BAZINGA. I'm sorry, I had to.

Parsons, who plays Sheldon on The Big Bang Theory, was so good at the game that we may be able to find it in our hearts to forgive him for thinking that Shaquille O'Neal was in Space Jam. Maybe.

Avril Lavigne defends her ex against 'bullying' Mark Zuckerberg's bad Nickelback joke.

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Avril Lavigne is not happy with Mark Zuckerberg, and here's the part where you make some sort of he's-no-skater-boy! joke.

On Tuesday, Lavigne defended her estranged husband, Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger, over Twitter (itself a pretty sneaky diss to the guy who founded Facebook) after Zuckerberg made a pretty basic "Nickelbacksucks" joke.

Can you imagine speaking out every time someone called Nickelback a terrible band?

Earlier this week, Facebook founder and robotic human Mark Zuckerberg made a proof of concept video for his home AI helper, Jarvis. Jarvis is just like Siri, but it controls your house.

Seriously, does anyone else remember the movie Smart House? Self-aware mansions never end well!

In the video, Zuckerberg made all sorts of corny jokes, and at one point, he asks his robot house to: "Play us some good Nickelback songs."

After a year of coding, here's Jarvis.

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, December 20, 2016

"I'm sorry Mark, I'm afraid I can't do that," says the Facebook founder's automated house, while some terrifying ambient noise blares over the video and everything slows down inexplicably.

Wait for it. Wait for it.

"There are no good Nickelback songs." says Jarvis.

"Good, that was actually a test!"

Lavigne called this an old joke, which it is. She pointed out that Nickelback has sold over 50 million albums, which is crazy, and called Zuckerberg a bully. Does one joke about a band really make you a bully?

Well, he's certainly no Skater B—never mind, we're done here.

The Rockettes are performing at Trump's inauguration whether they want to or not. (They don't.)

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President-elect Donald Trump has been having a tough time finding anybody to perform at his inauguration January in Washingon, D.C. As of now, there are only three confirmed performers—the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, America's Got Talent alumna Jackie Evancho, and the Radio City Rockettes, who apparently have no choice in the matter despite at least some of the women reportedly being "appalled."

James Dolan, the executive chairman of The Madison Square Garden Company (which owns the Rockettes dancers), issued the following statement confirming their appearance:

The Radio City Rockettes, an original American brand, have performed at Radio City Music Hall since 1932 and, as treasured American icons, have taken part in some of the nation’s most illustrious events such as Super Bowl halftime shows, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades and presidential inaugurations, including in 2001 and 2005. We are honored that the Rockettes have again been asked to perform in the upcoming inauguration festivities.

But clearly not all the Rockettes are on board. Rockette Phoebe Pearl posted an Instagram photo of the Rockettes dancing (which can no longer be viewed since she's made her account private), with a caption about her dislike of Donald Trump, reading,

I usually don’t use social media to make a political stand but I feel overwhelmed with emotion. Finding out that it has been decided for us that Rockettes will be performing at the Presidential inauguration makes me feel embarrassed and disappointed. The women I work with are intelligent and are full of love and the decision of performing for a man that stands for everything we’re against is appalling. I am speaking for just myself but please know that after we found out this news, we have been performing with tears in our eyes and heavy hearts #notmypresident

A source told PerezHilton,

It's been leaked that AGVA, the union who represents the Rockettes told the group of girls who contracted to do ALL promo events, that if they don't perform in the Trump inauguration, they will be sued/and or fired.

And according to Broadway World, an email was sent to all the Rockettes concerning their performance at Donald Trump's inauguration, reading,

Everyone is entitled to her own political beliefs, but there is no room for this in the workplace. . . If you are not full time, you do not have to sign up to do this work. If you are full time, you are obligated. Doing the best performance to reflect an American Institution which has been here for over 90 years is your job.

Sad!

Jimmy Fallon reads #NewChristmasCarols that will make you Ho Ho Ho.

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Christmas carols are usually so saccharine that they don't accurately reflect the season for what it is—stress-inducing eating marathon where you sneak shots of alcohol behind your family's back just to maintain your sanity. For this reason and others, Jimmy Fallon asked his viewers to tweet him some new Christmas carols that better represent these modern times, and the disaster that was 2016.

Now imagine slur-singing these new Christmas carols after 3-5 glasses of eggnog. Merry Christmas, indeed.


The top 41 tweets of the week, as picked by someone who loves good tweets.

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The news this week was dominated by Ivanka Trump, Lena Dunham, and theKardashians. Relax with jokes about dogs, millennials, captchas, and more, in the top 41 tweets of the week!

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Chrissy Teigen claps back at Trump's whiney tweet about celebrities.

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Nobody wants to go to Donald Trump's party, and America's First Child President is pulling a classic "Uh, yeah?! Well, I didn't want you anyway!"

On Thursday night, he tweeted (what else would he do?),

This is a SAD! lie, because everyone knows how much celebrities mean to him. Trump literally spent years looking for a celebrity apprentice.

A-lister Chrissy Teigen was unamused that the President-elect is using his precious time whining about A-listers and humbly reminded us that celebrities are people too. Plus, Trump can't afford to alienate a big chunk of people—he'll be the president of the United States of America, not the United People Who Were Successfully Duped By Him.

And for the knife-twister:

In case you were confused, a fact-checker clarified that the latter tweet is, in fact, a joke.

If Lil Banana were a real act, Mike Pence would probably veto it because bananas are phallic, anyway.

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Vin Diesel won't stop hitting on 'f***ing sexy' reporter in severely uncomfortable interview.

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During an interview with Brazilian journalist and YouTuber Carol Moreira, Vin Diesel stopped talking about his once-mentor Tom Hanksand instead turned his muscular eyeballs to his interviewer.

"He told me what it was going to be like to be a movie star," said Diesel, reminiscing about getting to know Hanks on the set of Saving Private Ryan."And before that, I didn't know any movie stars, but Tom Hanks was the first one. And he—God you're so beautiful."

Sorry, what?

"My god, she's so beautiful, man," said Diesel, turning to talk to someone off-camera. "Am I right or wrong? Look at her. How am I supposed to do this interview? Look at this woman."

The nightmare begins around the 4:50 mark:

"Tell me your story," says the Brazilian journalist, Carol Moreira, trying to get back on track.

"She's so beautiful!" continues Diesel. "Talk to me, baby. Tell me your story."

In her brief introduction, Moreira calls the video you're about to watch "uncomfortable," according to the Evening Standard. "I was laughing, completely uncomfortable."

"Let's get out of here, let's go. Let's go have lunch," continued Diesel. "My god I love her, look how beautiful she is."

"Thank you," said Moreira.

"God, wow. Man."

"So, Tom Hanks."

After talking about The Fast and the Furious for a while and generally keeping it together (besides describing himself as a "saga visionary,") the interview turns cringeworthy again.

"I found out you were a nerd like me, you love Dungeons and Dragons," asks Moreira.

"I'm anything like you, because I love you," responds Diesel, like a creep.

"I'm anything like you because I love you," he repeats, again looking off-camera to what we can only assume is a team of publicists begging him to stop.

"Guys, really? Look at how beautiful she is. You guys think this is a joke. How am I supposed to sit over here when I'm looking at such beauty? Come on guys, she's so beautiful. I'm in love."

Diesel then breaks into a quick rendition of that song that goes,
"I'm in love with the coco"(a song about cocaine), changing the the lyrics to "I'm in love with the interviewer." It's terrible.

Can you boycott a movie you were never going to see?

By the end, Diesel's completely unhinged. When Moreira asks him to say "I am Groot" in Portuguese, he does, but then he also says:"I love you, I love her, man, she's so fucking sexy I can't do this interview.

"Look at her," he says, pointing to her, the only other person on camera.

"Does anyone say this? Guys! What's wrong? Am I the only one that's saying that—look at her! She's so fucking beautiful, it's like you can't even do an interview with her because you're just like 'da da da da da,'" says Diesel, CRAWLING ON HIS KNEES TOWARDS HER.

"Right or wrong? Oh my god, someone save me. When did this turn into beautiful world? When did this turn into the most gorgeous girl in Brazil? When did this turn into 'I love you!'"

Dr. Pimple Popper posted the final part of her favorite cysts of the year.

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It's the end of the year, which means Dr. Pimple Popper (real name Dr. Sandra Lee) is posting all her favorite cysts, lipomas, and blackheads. There's so much nasty goo in the cyst category that she's broken the Top 10 Cysts into three separate videos. We've already written up part one and part two, and now here's part three, for your viewing pleasure/disgust.

Ricky Gervais and Seth Rogen had a hilariously immature Twitter conversation about their sausages.

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Seth Rogen and Ricky Gervais had a priceless twitter exchange that will make you giggle if you have the humor of a middle schooler (sort of like Seth Rogen and Ricky Gervais). The British comedian uploaded a picture of a streaming service featuring his movie, David Brent: Life on the Road placed precariously next to Rogen's animated film Sausage Party in the "Recently Added Movies" ​section. Well as they say, location is everything.

"*Not actual size" wrote Gervais. Hopefully his sausage doesn't have a goofy grinning face, either.

Well, Rogen responded to the hilarious picture with an equally hilarious response that will make you yearn for a Rogen/Gervais Netflix special.

Aw. How sweet! It's always "uplifting" to see two randoms celebrities having delightful interactions on social media. Looks like being two pudgy white guys isn't the only things Gervais and Rogen have in common— they are also both good for classic ol' dick joke.

Airline unwittingly gives three women a ‘rock star’ experience after their flight got delayed.

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Three friends got to live the dream of flying on a private jet —for the price of a coach seat.

Laura Stevens and her friends Sarah Hunt and Laurie-Lin Waller got to experience the lap of luxury thanks to a delay and some anxious would-be passengers.

Mashablereports that because the women had gotten word that their British Airways flight was delayed, the turned up to the airport later. By then, all of the other passengers on their Gibraltar to London Heathrow flight had been bumped up to earlier flights, leaving them to live out their rock star fantasies.

The crew got to take pictures with their own personal crew.

She gave a tour MTV Cribs-style.

And the friends even got to rock it in the cockpit.

Because the plane was fully stocked for a flight of 150, the women got bumped up to business class and treated to a champagne toast and a three-course meal.

Party like a rock star.

"It was an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experience that we'll never forget," Stevens told Telegraph.

"We felt like celebrities, especially when we were given Champagne – it was the best Christmas present ever, we couldn't believe how kind and lovely everyone was."


Woman gets surprise Christmas miracle when she runs out to the ATM.

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A woman named Jemma was out shopping for gifts with her son at Lush cosmetics when her card was declined twice. When she left her items behind the counter to run ten minutes away to an ATM, she came back to this surprise.

Hi my names Jemma I'd just like to make an appeal to say thank you to some one who done something very generous. I was...

Posted by Zara Chowdhury on Wednesday, December 21, 2016

A mystery angel named Bethany became filled with the holiday spirit and paid for Jemma's gifts, writing on the receipt,"I know how stressful this time of year can be! Have a great Christmas! Bethany xxx."

Wow, there are still good people in the world.

Unable to find the woman behind her Christmas miracle, Jemma posted her story to Facebook to try to thank Bethany personally.

Hi my names Jemma I'd just like to make an appeal to say thank you to some one who done something very generous. I was out shopping at Trafford centre with my son getting a few gifts from LUSH when I was ready to be served my card declined so I waited 10 minutes to try again but unfortunately it declined again so I told the woman behind the till to leave the stuff behind the till whilst I go cash machine which was 10 minutes from the store by the time I come back the woman come from behind the till with a bag which had the stuff I was going to buy in it she said some one has brought it for you and left a note!!! I was in shock and asked her who the woman was I went round looking for her which I couldn't find her I just wanted to say thank you and I really appreticate what she has done!! Goes to show there are some really nice people in the world xxx CAN EVERYONE PLEASE SHARE SO I CAN FIND OUT WHO SHE IS AS WOULD LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU PERSONALLY XXX SHES CALLED BETHANY BY THE WAY #readthenote

Bethany's beautiful gesture was so touching that strangers shared Jemma's story over 11,000 times.

Hey, Bethany, this time of year is stressful for us, too. We'll meet you at Sephora. ;)

Hotel manager shares crazy story of naked woman and her boyfriend trying to extort him.

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A hotel manager has come forward on Imgur with a truly bizarre story of a couple who tried to extort him out of $500 by threatening to frame him for rape. But they didn't quite think everything through, and wound up revealing the whole scheme to the cops.

We had a customer earlier today who complained about his room, so we moved him to a different room. This is a common occurrence, normally it happens because of poor Wi-Fi reception in some rooms so we didn't think much of it. Well, the guy failed to take everything of his to his new room, namely his girlfriend who he left in the old room. I was not made aware of this until I did my rounds and checked in on the room - we always do this after a person switches rooms to make sure the room is fit to rent. But it's our slow season so everything follows a leisurely pace - which is a fancy way of saying I couldn't be bothered to check it any quicker because I didn't really care enough to...

Anyways, I opened the door and this lady is standing there - butt naked, screaming at me. So I panic and quickly - managing to get out a meek "Sorry, I'm the manager!" Then I realize that this room should be empty. So I knock on the door again. After a few minutes, she opens the door and starts to go absolutely apeshit on me. She goes on to say how she is in fear of her life and that I am a rapist. Now that last part strikes me a bit weird, this is not the only time this has happened - this has happened four times under different circumstances since I've started working here, "fears of rape" were cited before and I don't exactly blame them for feeling threatened by me opening a door unexpectedly - I'm a big guy, some people get scared when they see me unexpectedly...

What struck me as odd here though was she was stated it very "matter-of-factly" not with any emotion. And then comes the big reveal, she points to a video camera in the corner. She says she was recording when I burst into the room and she's going to show the video to the police and claim that I raped her. Logically, this makes no sense - but I wasn't thinking that at the time. Obviously I didn't rape her, we didn't have sex, a recording wouldn't mean a damn thing unless it was altered heavily, and (she didn't know this) but I am the absolutely most flaming of homosexuals. So I panic a bit and she adds to her rant "We can just avoid all of this if you give me $500."

And now the panic drains from me. This isn't some crazy lady who I've scared, she's just a bitch who wants money. "I don't have $500." Which is true, I fucking don't have $500. She replies "Well we have a problem then."

So I go back to the office, luckily I know better than to say anything beyond this point - although the true lunacy of what she was doing hadn't dawned on me yet. In the office, I call the non-emergency line for the police and tell them I need an officer for an issue with a customer. I've got good rapport with dispatch since I've had to call them fairly often over the years, so they sent an officer straight over.

As I'm waiting for the officer, it starts to hit me how ridiculous this whole situation is. "Is this lady just crazy?" But there's still that bit of panic because ultimately the truth doesn't matter as much as the officer's interpretation of the situation, and then all the Hollywood style revenge scenarios of cop showing up - who thinks I kinda look like the guy who killed his whole family in the 1990s, sparking him to pursue a career in law enforcement to find his family's killer. I imagine him seeing the situation, dragging me off behind the building and shooting me in the head. And here I am, in the dark place of my brain wrecked with anxiety and near tears when the officer shows up.

The buzzer rings to the office. The cop is standing outside, it's a woman. A new Hollywood scenario runs through my head, of a sex-trafficked avenger lady cop - out to stick it to the menfolk who done her wrong. More anxiety... I buzz her in and explain the situation as it happened - including the camera, the demand for $500, and the rape allegation. She says "Ok well lets go talk to the lady, lead the way." I'm walking in front of her now, Hollywood scenarios are still very active in my brain - despite her seeming completely calm and reasonable.

We get to the room and the lady says I raped her, she's in fucking tears while she's saying it - running mascara and puffy eyes. "Oh fuck" my brain says, "You're SO gonna die!" Anxiety is just climbing higher and higher, doing quick breathing exercises, realizing it makes me look absolutely guilty . Then she gets to the video camera. The cop immediately asks "You have a recording, may I see it?" She shows the cop the recording of me opening the door and her screaming, but doesn't pause the video after it. Before she realizes this, the cop has taken the camera out of her hands, pulled the camera out of the lady's reach and is watching as the recording continued. Including the part where she presumably got dressed, opened the door, and proceeded to extort me.

Lady cop has this look on her face, the "Are you fucking kidding me?" look... after a minute she makes this point clear by actually saying "Are you fucking kidding me?" Bitch-lady has no more tears, just a shocked look on her face and she realizes that mistakes have been made. Miranda rights followed, the lady was arrested for extortion. We tried to talk to her boyfriend, but he was not in the room he was supposed to move in to (My guess is that he got a general idea of the crazy he was dealing with and bolted) Lady cop is my new hero, admittedly because she didn't go all "Kill Bill vol. 2" on me. After a quick google search on the penal code, she's likely going to face 2-8 years in prison... so that's nice. After a few cigarettes I've calmed down and am ready to finish out with double-shift with optimism. Tomorrow will be a better day, or there will be another anxiety attack, who knows?

Even though women are often accused of falsifying rape allegations for personal gain, in reality that almost never happens. But rare examples like this one are pretty heinous, so it's nice that these two scammers didn't get away with it. Especially because their own boneheadedness was responsible.

'Proud robosexual' built her own fiancé.

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It's Christmastime, when we're remind that "love actually is all around"—including between a woman and a robot she 3D printed herself (Before you judge, c'mon, like you've never found yourself attracted to C-3PO before? So tall! So shiny!).

In this modern day, apparently real "Pygmalion," Lilly is a woman in France in a committed relationship with InMoovator, a robot of her creation, and she plans to marry him "when human-robot marriage is legalised in France." (Not if, when.)

“I’m really and only attracted by the robots,” she told news.com.au,“My only two relationships with men have confirmed my love orientation, because I dislike really physical contact with human flesh.”

According to The Daily Mail, Lilly's family and friends are accepting of her relationship, perhaps because it means they won't have in laws of his side of the family to have to deal with.

She's training to be a roboticst in order to feel the same passion in her work life, too.

The Daily Mail reports that at a recent conference in London, Dr. David Levy, author of Love and Sex with Robots,

Stay tuned for the HBO Drama and/or TLC Original Series.

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Sinbad says he'll make that genie movie 'Shazaam' that many people are wrongly convinced already exists.

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The movie's called Shazaam. Or, well, it would be if it actually existed.

In a feature published by The New Statesman this week, writer Amelia Tate uncovers a group of Redditors who are convinced that a movie called Shazaam, starring Sinbad, existed. Yet, they can't find any trace of it. And no, they aren't talking about Kazaam, a different (yet similar) genie movie starring Shaquille O'neal. Well, one thing is for sure, Sinbad doesn't think he made this movie.

You can imagine that Sinbad is probably very confused about this phenomenon, which has been going on for years at this point.

These people are so convinced that they have seen this movie that they have highly specific memories of it, including an account from a video rental employee who swears they had two copies they lent out year after year. Another guy specifically remembers the person he was engaged to, and that he was in graduate school at the time, which was his method of verifying that the movie definitely came out before Shaq's Kazaam. Tate's feature is an interesting meditation on false and collective consciousness. These types of memories have become such a popular phenomenon (beyond the movie, to other historic incidents as well), that there is an entire subreddit about what they now call the Mandela Effect.

So, after years of hearing about this and it finally picking up steam this fall, Sinbad has decided to put the whole thing to rest...by making this dang genie movie once and for all.

Thank you Sinbad. We are driving ourselves insane and we need your help.

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