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Kids who grew up filthy rich pinpoint the moment that 'real life' hit them.

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If you didn't grow up in the lap of luxury, you probably envied someone who did. And since the invent of social media, things have only gotten worse, because now kids can flaunt their wealth on Instagram and Twitter, which is not only annoying, but let's face it, makes you jealous as hell.

Self-identifying "former spoiled rotten kids" of Reddit shared the exact moment when they realized that life is tougher than they thought. Reading about their rude awakenings makes their status a little less enviable.

Redditor niteninjas recalls how going bankrupt changed everything for the family overnight.

About 2nd grade. That's when my family went bankrupt (my dad got fucked over by his business partner) and we went from new cars, games, eating out constantly, and computers, to filling water bottles at the library, pooling baths, and having variations of pasta for weeks for dinner, in the course of months. We're still on the climb back to full middle-upper class. I'm very fortunate to have great parents that do their best :).

Things turned around for vixiecat upon accepting a life-changing job as a camp counselor.

I was a spoiled rotten child and also into my teen years. My parents bought me a brand new red convertible for my 16th birthday. I threw a fit over it because what I actually wanted was my brother's old car (that we still had) which was dark blue in colour. I was so shallow and a horrible person back then..

So what really turned me around? That next summer I took a job as a camp counselor at a local day camp. I did not have to work but I was bored and sounded like something easy to do. God, I was so wrong. This day camp was specifically geared to the lower classes who could not afford child care during the summer. We served them breakfast, lunch, and an afternoon snack. For a lot of the camp kids this was all they would eat that day and on Friday's they would beg for extra food/snacks to take home for themselves and/or their siblings because they may not get to eat again until Monday. This really hit me hard but the part that got me the most..

This one kid (around 5-6) would refuse to take their shoes and socks off, even if we were going to the public pool that day. I couldn't understand why until one day he came in limping, like his feet were causing him so much pain. I convinced him to let me help him get his shoes and socks so I could see what might be bothering him. Once I did, it took everything in me not to break down right there. His socks were covered in blood. His poor tiny little feet were covered in sores and his toes seemed to curl under a bit. He was in so much pain from the state of his feet. As it turns out, he had been wearing shoes about 3 sizes too small. His family couldn't afford new shoes. I took my lunch break and went out to buy him new socks and a few pairs of shoes.

This broke me..which I definitely needed. It changed my way of thinking forever.

Roryshah's family went from having many fancy cars to having one sensible car.

When my Dad was sued and we went from having 3 Mercedes, a Lamborghini, and a Ferrari to having a Toyota Sequoia.

But sometimes, getting your privilege checked could be funny. Just ask eraser_dust.

I grew up in Indonesia, a 3rd world country where you'd definitely have maids if you're posting on reddit. I grew up thinking it's common to have multiple maids.

Moved to Singapore, a 1st world country where people still have maids, but it's more of an upper-middle class & above thing. Got assigned to sweep the floors by the teachers, and that was my first time holding a broom.

Swept it back and forth like in cartoons, and everyone was looking at me going, "Er, what the fuck are you doing?"

Turns out I was just creating a dust cloud around me. You have to sweep in one direction and gather all the dust into the dust pan.

Mind blown.

Yeah, don't sweep like this.

cloudwitch not only lost a comfortable lifestyle, but they learned an uncomfortable truth about their father.

Grew up in a fancy home, more rooms than you could ever need on a large property in a pretty rural area. I got everything I wanted whenever I wanted; huge plasma tv, dslr camera, motorbike, pony etc. I never knew what my parents really did for a living, I remember kids always asking what my parents did as a job in the playground and I never really knew how to respond.

I soon figured out what my parents did when my dad was arrested for drug trafficking and the house, cars and everything else was repossessed by the government as profits of crime. I now live in a shitty house that barely stands in a dodgy area of town, it definitely was a shock to the system but I'm adjusting just fine I guess.

d_ippy came clean about her dirty little dry cleaning secret.

When I was 16 my parents left for a week vacation and gave me money for the week. Since I didn't know how to do laundry (never even seen it done) I took all my clothes to the dry cleaner. Even my panties. The cleaners asked 3 times if I was sure I wanted them dry cleaned. I said yes. 2 days later I got 8 pair of panties safety pinned to individual hangers. My "laundry" cost about $90 that week. I just assumed this was all normal.

Yeah, definitely not normal.

Just_Four_More acknowledges that being spoiled as a kid made becoming an adult even harder.

I was raised by my great grandmother. She was well to do, active well into her 80's and her world revolved around me. Ballet, gymnastics, all the music classes I could fit in my schedule. I had a menagerie of pets. Christmases were obscene. She catered to my every whim as a child.

Now that I'm an adult and my wonderful Gram has passed, I've learned that what I had was really unique. The world does not wait on me, I'm not special to everyone. I struggle with entitlement and narcissistic tendencies. It's isolating at times and I miss her.

HeatheryLeathery fell on hard times not once, but twice.

My parents went bankrupt. Twice. Went from private school to having cars and the house repossessed. Yay.

Yay?

ermerly didn't realize how lucky she was until she compared her childhood with her husband's.

At 20, when I started dating my now husband. He was raised by a single mom who worked three jobs and they still barely got by, while my mom was a SAHM and my dad was/is a successful in his line of work.

Husband and I went to high school together. At the beginning of every school year my parents would easily drop $15k on me and my sister for school clothes; my husband would go with our HS secretary to get clothes that were paid for by the school district. I didn't even know that was a thing....

Edit: Yes, I am aware and I agree that this is a stupid amount of money to spend on clothing. To clarify, a large portion of that amount was spent on designer items/accessories.

One simple task served as Jaeshin's wakeup call.

Military bootcamp. Wanted to eat an orange, didn't know how to peel one. Slyly waited for someone else to start peeling before emulating him. End up with a badly squashed, untidily peeled orange ball that tasted like sour reality. BOOM. Evolved.

So it wasn't the military that did the trick. It was an orange.

Bluestar280 still has money, but tries not to be a jerk about it.

Not sure if this is a serious question, but here's a serious answer.

When I moved out of my hometown for college, it was an absolute culture shock. I met other students who couldn't go to their dream schools because of how much it cost so they had to go in-state. They didn't eat out every other day. They bought secondhand clothes. Some had never travelled out of the country, some never even out of the state. Some were driving their parents' first cars. That shit blew my mind. This is how the rest of the 99% of the country lives.

I come from a filthy rich background, but I work hard to hide it so that you can't tell. I dress normally, I don't really talk about my background, I try to buy stuff on sale.

Sometimes it shows in ways that I can't help. I'd never seen shitty cars before going to college. I don't know how to drive cars with poor handling, and I always forget to turn off the headlights because I've never driven a car without automatic lights. I don't know how much anything costs because it doesn't matter. I'll still buy it anyway. I also don't really value money. $100 just isn't a big deal to me, but I know it means a lot to others, so I don't mind giving it to friends who are in need. But if you don't look too closely at my habits, you can't tell. And that was a conscious decision that I've made.

I'm grateful for never having to worry about money, and I likely never will. But I don't want to go back to my hometown because I think the lifestyle is unhealthy. There's so much entitlement, and the worst part is how rich people think that money defines your worth. I've seen them look at people with less money with such disdain, like their value as a person is less since they don't have as much money. It's disgusting. And I don't want to be associated with that kind of person.

I also loathe the comments that come with it like "if I were rich like you..." and I put an end to those immediately if they come up. I don't like being treated differently because of how much money I have, and I won't treat you differently for how much money you have. We are both people, and we are both worth something.

And all tobadiah_stane needed was little tough love to keep themselves in check.

Getting told "You're a very rude person." by an instructor at music summer camp after 11th grade. It was a huge reality check for me and really changed how I interacted with people.

It's hard to hear that you're a jerk, but it could be the thing that stops you from being a jerk.

Kim Kardashian revealed how she greets Kanye West after every show. It's extremely Kanye.

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (TM) want you to believe their post-show ritual is essentially a designer clothing advertisement, and you know what? I'm more than ready to believe them.

On her locked-to-the-public website KimKardashianWest.com, people who actually pay for access say that Kim Kardashian revealed the two things Kanye West wants from her after each show.

"After every show," says Kim Kardashian-West, "I always greet Kanye with a black Versace towel and a glass of water in a Versace glass. And there was a fun slushy machine in the friends and family room."

What a missed opportunity to plug Versace water. And is it a Versace slushy? Is it made of designer ice and designer jeans and leather designer jackets so fine they need 10 seconds in a blender to become a healthy, nutritional Versace vitamincrust you can inject by IV?

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have reached true self-parody, and for that I congratulate them. Enjoy your time in the White House. See you in 2020.

Blac Chyna blasts Tyga in intense Snapchat rant over child support.

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The East Coast woke up Wednesday morning to Blac Chyna spilling tea as they sipped their coffee. Blac Chyna, ex-fiancé of Rob Kardashian, went off on Tyga, current boyfriend of Kylie Jenner, and father of her son, King Cairo.

What a family. Let's dive in.

(We don't know who Terrell and Heather are yet but are excited to find out.)

Blac Chyna is accusing Tyga of not paying child support, telling him to run to her almost-sister-in-law.

Ironically, Blac Chyna is pulling a Kim Kardashian, using a Snapchat story to expose someone like Kim did with Taylor Swift.

The blog The Inquisitorseems to think Chyna is accusing Tyga of cheating on Kylie Jenner, although it's not clear why.

In any case, Blac Chyna tells Tyga to “stop running to your money,” which fans are interpreting is his pet name for Kylie Jenner.

The Snapchat story ends with the address "16101 Ventura Blvd 215."

Context would suggest is Tyga's place, but like a true Kardashian businesswoman, is actually just her makeup store.

Blac Chyna is trending just behind #Brexit on Twitter, likely enraging her would-be mother-in-law Kris Jenner by giving the world some juicy drama she won't get to profit off of.

Twitter is mostly along for the ride, but rightfully calls out Blac Chyna for calling Tyga "f**," a homophobic slur.

Stay tuned to see how Tyga and Kylie Jenner react, because it almost certainly won't be in private.

Donald Trump is trying to make it impossible for people to sue him.

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Now that Donald Trump is president of this great nation, he's worried he might not have time to deal with small matters like civil lawsuits. In fact, he's so worried that he's bringing the matter to court.

TMZ reports that Trump's lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, filed court documents in New York arguing that former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos' defamation lawsuit against the president should be dismissed, since it could distract the president from his public duties and subsequently hurt the country.

Zervos is suing Trump for defamation after he allegedly ruined her good name by calling her a liar for her sexual assault claims against him.

Kasowitz is citing the Constitution's supremacy clause to back up his claim that the sitting president can't be sued in state court while in office. He claims that the Supreme Court left this particular issue undecided when they ruled against Bill Clinton in the '90s. (The Supreme Court did firmly decide that he sitting president is not immune to private litigation, however.)

Zervos' lawyer, Gloria Allread, isn't buying it. Allread said on Tuesday that "no man is above the law and that includes the president of the United States."

Donald Trump may not have time for defamation lawsuits, but don't worry. He still has plenty of time for weekend golf vacations.

School's sexist flyer on what prom dress a 'good girl' should wear is enraging the internet.

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Administrators at Stanton College Prep High School in Jacksonville, Florida are struggling to put out a firestorm of controversy over some very ill-advised flyers advising "good girls" on how they should dress at next week's prom. An image of the flyers was shared on Twitter by student Lily Willingham, where it's been getting a lot of attention. And not the good kind.

In less than two days, Willingham's post has been retweeted almost 2,000 times. Hundreds of fellow students and strangers of like are giving her their support, while simultaneously ripping this flyer apart for apparently time-traveling from the 1950s.

Once the school administration was informed, they knew they were in trouble. They took down the flyers, releasing a statement to apologize and explain that they were the work of some rogue administrator who was not following school policy. And while they didn't sell that body-shamer out by name, they did basically throw them under the bus.

Here's DCPS's full statement:

The display of prom dress photos pertaining to recommended attire at Stanton College Preparatory School is not an approved policy by the school or Duval County Public Schools. The displayed images were immediately removed by school leadership on Monday. Both students and staff have been informed this was not acceptable or appropriate guidance for prom dress attire.

At least this story has a satisfying ending. But the true battle won't be won until no one uses the phrase "good girl" ever again.

Mike Pence has two bizarre rules for being around any woman besides his wife.

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The Washington Post released an illuminating profile about Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence and apparently "one of Trump's staunchest defenders overall." Besides featuring a hilarious photograph of Mike Pence holding a massive umbrella and sporting an all-denim suit, the piece is worth a read for this intriguing nugget about their marriage:

In 2002, Mike Pence told the Hill that he never eats alone with a woman other than his wife and that he won’t attend events featuring alcohol without her by his side, either.

The Hill article isn't currently available on the newspaper's website, so we have precious little context for the anecdote. But at face value, the revelation about Mike Pence's "Mother" (Mike Pence calls his wife "Mother") seems to confirm the very male Trump administration's lack of self-control around women. At the very least, it exhibits Pence's very old-fashioned, sign-legislation-about-women-without-a-woman-in-the-room world view.

This makes Mike Pence look like a man so uncomfortable with women that he can't even have dinner or a drink with a friend before it crosses a personal moral boundary. Is the man capable of any platonic relationships with the opposite sex? Or does he live his entire life as overused comedy premise?

This has led to some hilarious, and some not-so-hilarious, ideas about Mike Pence.

Dr. Pimple Popper pops out this 'horn' cyst from a patient's scalp.

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A pilar cyst (also known as a trichilemmal cyst), according to Dr. Pimple Popper's YouTube page, is basically the same as an epidermoid cyst, only slightly firmer and more "mobile." And ninety percent of them occur on the scalp, which is just where this cyst that Dr. Sandra Lee (the internet-famous dermatologist who goes by Dr. Pimple Popper) removed was located.

Dr. Pimple Popper's patient reveals that he's had the cyst for about 10 years, but since he's got thick hair, it's not terribly noticeable. In fact, it's his wife who wanted him to get it removed.

Dr. Pimple Popper debates whether or not to try to remove the pilar cyst whole or squeeze it, since she wants to keep the incision as small as possible. She ends up cutting it open because it's just too big to pull out whole. Horn no more!

Mom goes viral with terrifying story about being followed around by two men at IKEA.

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Mom-of-three Diandra Toyos has gone viral with her terrifying story of being followed around at IKEA by two strangers who she suspects were targeting her kids for human trafficking.

As she described in a Facebook post, during a recent trip to IKEA with her mom and three kids, the Southern California mom noticed a "well dressed, middle-aged man" who was "circling the area, getting closer to me and the kids." She says at one point he even came right up to her and her kids: "Instinctively I put myself between he and my mobile son," she writes. "I had a bad feeling."

Eventually, the stranger was joined by "another man dressed more casually and in his 20s," she writes, who also circled her and her family, while, as Toyos put it, seemingly pretending to shop.

At this point, a frightened Toyos and her mom decided to stop and sit in one of those little display rooms to wait for the men to move on. But weirdly, the men didn't move away from them.

She writes:

So we sat in one of the little display rooms. For close to 30 minutes. And they sat too. They sat down on one of the couches on the display floor that faced us. That was when we knew our gut feeling was right and something was off.

Then, after they got up, the men got up, too and continued to follow them.

At this point, Toyos says she and her mom kept the three kids very close to them, and after they "got through the maze of IKEA," they reported the men to security. Toyos believes she and her kids were targets of human trafficking.

"This is happening all over," she wrote. "Including the United States. It's in our backyards. I'm reading more and more about these experiences and it's terrifying. If not that, something else shady was obviously going on. Either way, as parents, we NEED to be aware."

You can read the whole creepy story here:

I wanted to share this again publicly in case any of you want to share with your mom friends... I've added some details...

Posted by Diandra Toyos on Thursday, March 23, 2017

Toyos says she wanted to share her story so that other parents would be reminded to take precautions and stay aware when with their kids in public. "When you're in a public place with your kids, please be aware and present so that you don't become a victim," she wrote. "Trust your gut. It's there for a reason."

However, not everyone is convinced at Diandra Toyos ' read on the situation. According to Snopes.com, a myth-debunking web site, viral stories from parents about "near misses" with human trafficking are quite common on social media. And according to David Finkelhor, head of the Crimes Against Children Research Center, "child abduction rarely occurs in a crowded public venue like that, where help would be easy to muster." Just FYI.

Toyo and her kids safe and sound.

Nevertheless, her post has already been shared over 100,000 times, and wracked up thousands of comments from other parents thanking her.

Regardless of what could have happened in this one mom's scenario, it's never a bad idea to trust your gut when something doesn't feel right and stay aware of where your kids are at all time. Especially at literal human maze IKEA.


Twitter is side-eyeing Melania Trump's speech about women's empowerment.

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First Lady Melania Trump emerged from her literal golden tower to present awards for the International Women of Courage. It was brave of her to appear at such an event, when her husband Donald Trump's administration is so committed against both internationals and women.

The First Lady made it through her speech, which has yet to be exposed as Michelle Obama's.

As Melania is married to (and is a mouthpiece for) President Trump, when many people take into account the Donald's words and deeds, Melania's "advocacy for women" rings hollow.

Twitter did not hold back in their reactions.

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Single mom says she was 'forbidden' from attending a school dance for this baffling reason.

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Given the different forms families can take, it seems pretty normal that single moms and dads sometimes stand in for each other at school events that specify "mom" or "dad." However, some schools still adhere to rigid rules about this, for no apparent reason. A perfect example of this is single mom Amy Peterson in Georgia, who was planning on taking her 6-year-old daughter to her school's father-daughter dance. She dressed up in men's clothes and even painted on a beard, only to be told via phone call an hour before the dance that she would be unwelcome. As in, not even allowed in.

Speaking to WSB-TV, Amy Peterson said, “To me, I’ve identified myself as her father and her mother because that’s what I’ve done for six years." When she found out that there would be a father-daughter dance at her daughter's school, she didn't want her to miss out, so she figured she'd go with her daughter instead.

To make sure it was all right, Peterson filled out paperwork a full month before the dance letting the school know her plans. All seemed fine, but just an hour before the dance, the school's principal called Peterson to tell her, in no uncertain terms, not to come.

“She said, ‘No. I forbid you to come and if you show up we will turn you away,’” Peterson told WSB-TV. She continued, “How do you explain that to a 6-year-old? You can’t go to a dance because you don’t have a male role model in your life. I think they handled it poorly. They shouldn’t have turned any parent away.”

The Henry County School District issued a statement explaining that they'd told other mothers the same thing (as if that somehow makes it acceptable). The statement read, in part:

It was explained that the dance announcement indicated that in lieu of a dad being available to attend, any family or friend father-figure could attend. There are three different dance events the school hosts throughout the year to include everyone. There is a mother-son dance, a father-daughter dance, and sweetheart dance that includes students and anyone they wish to bring.

The school is cognizant that different dynamics exist across households in our school system. Anyone with a question as to the requirements or specifics of any school extracurricular event is encouraged to reach out to a school official or teacher. There are multiple parent engagement events and opportunities to participate with their kids annually at this school in an effort to make that connection and build school spirit.

Um, okay, whatever. Hopefully incidents like this will be fewer and fewer, as more schools learn to accept the fact that families don't always have moms and dads, and kids shouldn't be punished for that. The schools should be happy when parents are involved enough in their children's lives to attend a school dance in the first place.

The cast of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' reunited and they all look immortal.

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Ready to feel old? Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been around for two whole decades. And on this, the 20-year anniversary of the series premiere, the cast of Buffy reunited for a fancy photo shoot and interview with Entertainment Weekly. It was their first joint interview in over a decade.

“For the most part, this is like a high school reunion but much worse because they all still look really great. I was hoping some of them would puff out a bit," director Joss Whedon said of the reunion. "But that did not take place.”

He's not kidding. Truly, the cast looks so good, we're pretty sure they're actually immortal.

When they weren't posing for badass photos of pretty people, the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer reminisced about their days on set and talked about why the series became so popular.

“It’s the ultimate metaphor: horrors of adolescence manifesting through these actual monsters,” star Sarah Michelle Gellar said of the show.

“When you’re going through a really horrible part of your life, like your teenage years, you feel alone. And Buffy was a way to tell the audience you’re not alone,” her co-star David Boreanaz, who played Angel, added.

So, wait. They're not going to announce a Buffy sequel series? No! Wait, this reunion can't be all we get! Buffy, come back!

One of my biggest concerns about Brexit is still not understanding what it is.

The White House is selling golden Easter eggs on their website, but don't be so quick to judge.

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This year, the White House is selling golden Easter eggs to commemorate the annual White House Easter Egg Roll.

Given our current President, it seems pretty fitting, right?

And at the low price of $14.95, you don't even need a golden goose to get one (although Veruca Salt does remind us of a certain US President).

"I want it NOW!!!!"

Of course, Twitter immediately blamed the manufacturing of this garish keepsake on Trump's obsession with all things gold.

But not so fast! Although this egg is probably as fragile as Trump's ego, he is not the first president to sell the gilded souvenirs.

Yep! According to Twitchy, President Obama had his own golden Easter eggs just last year.

Seriously, if Trump wanted to leave his mark on this year's Easter Egg Roll, he would have made the egg orange with some Easter grass on top.

Plus, the egg isn't actually made of gold. It is comprised of wood and pained gold. Bummer.

Still, you have to admit that it does look like something they would serve for breakfast in Trump Tower.

Oh well, looks like we will have to just settle for getting mad over things that actually matter!

Generous Craigslist dude is willing to let you run a 5K so he can win $100. You get nothing.

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In the latest gem from Craigslist, a dude bet his friend $100 that he couldn't run a 5K. Obviously, he took the bet—$100 is $100 right? Oh, but then he realized he didn't want to run a 5K.

My best friend bet me $100 that I can't run a 5K (metric measurement) in less than 22 minutes. He didn't expect me to actually say yes, but guess what? Challenge accepted!

Unfortunately, I don't run at all. I'd rather do almost anything--get the measles, stick my hand in an alligator's mouth or write a thank you letter. Plus, we set August 1 as the date I have to do it by, so I don't have time to train.

But his mistake is your gain! It's a once in a lifetime offer! You get to dress like a stranger, wear a black mask, and try to trick that stranger's friend into giving him $100!

Are you a runner? I could use your help. Just pretend to be me and run this 5K (not sure how many miles). It doesn't really matter what you look like because there's a nighttime, ninja-themed 5K (Googled it, 3.1 miles) coming up. I figure you can dress in an all black costume that only shows your eyes. No one will be able to tell you're not me!

Glad this guy figured out the amount of miles in a 5K between sentence one and sentence two. Anyway—what do you get for the trouble of committing fraud in a ninja themed race? Well, that's the best part of the deal. You get nothing! The post is tagged "no pay."

I'll pay your race fee, unless you take longer than 22 minutes to finish the race. In that case, you'll need to give me something...an apology!!!

We'll swap places after the race. It should be easy. You'll just go into the bathroom and I'll sneak up on my friend (like ninjas do) and collect my $100. Feel free to use the bathroom if you need to.

What a great deal.

A true genius built a robot to literally burn Trump where it hurts him the most.

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An anonymous modern day hero has invented a robot that prints and burns Donald Trump's tweets. Finally! Every day I have had to print out every single tweet on my ancient printer that takes an hour to turn on. Then I have to burn them individually and, frankly, I'm exhausted. And now I can rest.

The robot made its first appearance on Twitter yesterday morning, in response to Trump tweeting this:

Enter robot:

Isn't it enchanting? It's like art in motion. I could watch this robot work for hours. And it seems like I might have to. Because Donald Trump keeps tweeting. And the robot keeps burning them.

That's right, this heroic, tireless robot is burning every single Trump tweet.

But that's not all it does! Sometimes it tweets at comedians.

This robot is like an overeager college grad that can't stop giving out their resume at inappropriate times, and you have to admire its ambition. Get out there, young robot that prints and burns Trump's tweets. The world is yours.


Divorced mom goes viral with post about why she still takes family photos with her ex.

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Victoria Baldwin and her husband Adam may have gotten divorced, but they want to assure that their son knows that they are still a family.

Victoria Baldwin shared the family portraits with Love What Matters.

"The top two photos were taken when Adam and I were married. The bottom two, taken nearly one year and over two years after our divorce was finalized. We are not in love, we don't always agree, we're not best friends, sometimes we don't even like one another. But you know what we are? We are forever connected because of our beautiful, smart, kind, compassionate, funny son," she writes.

While the poses in the pictures may have changed over the years, their commitment to their son has not.

"The top two photos were taken when Adam and I were married. The bottom two, taken nearly one year and over two years...

Posted by Love What Matters on Monday, March 27, 2017

They're smiling and happy in the photos, it isn't always that easy.

"We RESPECT one another. We remember that neither of our roles as parents take precedence over the other - neither one of us are any more important to the life of our son. We BOTH need to be there, we BOTH deserve quality time and quality memories with him. Neither of us blame one another for the direction our relationship took. We do not place blame on one another, and we certainly don't place blame in the presence of our son," she continues.

For many families, is a portrait goes beyond Facebook likes—it's a symbol of togetherness, something you can point to and say "this is us."

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(Got that show on my mind—I'm in need of a good cry.)

Baldwin says because they're divorced parents, its all the more important to have these representations of what it means to be a family.

“We still have a family portrait taken, and I still pay good money to have the images printed, framed, and placed in our son’s bedroom; he may not grow up with parents who live in the same house… but he will grow up to see respect, kindness, empathy, compassion, perseverance, flexibility, and even sacrifice being modeled by both of his parents and he will know it is possible to fall out of love but never fall apart,” Baldwin explains.

“Kids may not always listen to what you say, but they will watch what you do, and that can make all the difference," she says.

A picture is worth a thousand words. And at least 100 "Likes."

Guy totally cracks under the pressure when Tinder match asks him to impress her.

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Online dating is hard. Making a first impression over text is never easy. But it's important to be able to maintain your composure. This Tinder user learned that the hard way.

A Reddit user known as Zanester98 posted this screenshot of a recent conversation he had with a Tinder match. The woman he matched with told him he had three messages to impress her.

Our boy cracked under the pressure.

Yep. He wasted all three messages freaking out about the pressure, and then freaking out about wasting messages. It's entirely possible that he was wasting the messages on purpose to make a joke, but Caren was not messing around. She unmatched him immediately.

Man, that's rough. But Caren knows what she wants, and honestly, good for her. We wish Zanester98 the best of luck in his search for love.

'Santa's Husband' is the children's book that will change Christmas forever.

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Santa Claus is coming to town, but first he is coming out of the closet!

Daniel Kibblesmith, writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and co-author of How to Win at Everything, has officially announced that his children's book, Santa's Husband, will be on shelves starting October 10th.

This is the future that liberals want!

According toTime, the book is about a gay, black Santa who lives in the North Pole with his white husband. If Santa is busy, his spouse helps out by filling in for him and playing Santa at the mall. Aw!

The idea for the book came from this joke Kibblesmith tweeted back in December of 2016.

Looks like Mrs. Claus was a beard all along.

According to the press release sent from Kibblesmith's Twitter account, Santa's Husband will be a parody of a children's book, although Harper Design said the book is meant for all ages.

A black, gay Santa in an interracial relationship? No one tell Megyn Kelly.

How to get friends to help you move

The 25 funniest tweets from frustrated employees complaining about #ThingsAnnoyingCoworkersDo.

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We teamed up with the great people at Hashtag Roundup to passive aggressively vent about our coworkers in a fun, funny way with #ThingsAnnoyingCoworkersDo.

These are the bestest, most relatable ones.

1. Not so sweet.

2. "May I cut in?"

3. Give Axe the axe.

4. "How do you do, fellow regulars?"

5. We're all weak.

6. One love, one copier.

7. Restless.

8. Bug off.

9. Relatable.

10. Fishy.

11. Focus!

12. Meta.

13. Sharing is caring.

14. Don't cross Ross.

15. Ugh.

16. He seems fun.

17. There's no way to hide.

18. Right?!

19. Nope nope nope.

20. Move, cat. Get out the way.

21. We're coworkers. Just coworkers.

22. Pick one!

23. Wake up!

24. I'm so lonely.

25. Survey says...

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