A 10-year-old boy in Finland won $10,000 for hacking Instagram and alerting them to a software flaw. Facebook (which owns Instagram) has a Bug Bounty Program, which encourages developers to alert them to vulnerabilities in their code. Jani, the 10-year-old future millionaire, is reported to be the youngest to ever claim the bounty. Apparently the feisty little genius found a way to delete comments from any Instagram post.
Facebook told Forbes that Jani confirmed his discovery by deleting a comment the company posted on a dummy Instagram account. The bug was fixed in February and Jani received his mighty reward in March.
If only he could've deleted annoying pictures of brunch.
Jani said he planned on using his reward for a bike and football (soccer). He may have the skills of an adult hacker, but he's still a 10-year-old at heart.
Oscar- and Grammy-winner Jennifer Hudson won't be getting a Tony anytime soon—even though she's one of the stars of the musical revival of The Color Purple, which was nominated for 4 Tonys on May 3, she wasn't among the nominees.
According to Hudson in a since-deleted tweet, she predicted as much, claiming that the show was using her for her celebrity and not her (huge!) talent:
The tweet was sent in response to a fan of Hudson's, who said that she was snubbed in the Best Featured Actress in a Musical category. "Her performance was great for it being her first time on Broadway," the fan said, in a truly impressive backhanded compliment.
"My presence was used for my celebrity, not my talent," she tweeted in response. "I'm not surprised."
Hudson is halfway to an EGOT and got a rave review for her performance in the Times. And still, she has imposter syndrome. What hope is there for anyone else?
You, all your female friends, all your male friends, all your enemies, future generations, and alien species aren't the onlyBeyoncé fans. Everyone else and also Adele is, too. The British pop star praised the Lemonadesinger in an effusive Instagram post about "worshipping" the woman who actually could probably start a very successful religion if she really wanted to.
I'm not late on this I've just been speechless. Beyonce is the most inspiring person I've ever had the pleasure of worshipping. Her talent, beauty, grace and work ethic are all in a league of their own. I appreciate you so much! Thank god for Beyoncé
Of course, Adele is Adele, so you have to imagine Beyoncé is like "same."
These were the last words of one girl's age of innocence, before her otherwise-friendly-looking pug showed her the unforgiving laws of nature. (It's recommended you turn the playback speed to .25 in the settings to truly savor these last seconds of hope for the world.) RIP youthful joy:
And RIP one butterfly. (By the way, if you are freaking out because you heard that butterflies are poisonous to dogs, don't worry; that's just Monarchs.) The video, posted on the Current Vibes YouTube channel, is credited to an assiamarie. So, assiamarie, wherever you are, our deepest condolences for the loss of the carefree days of sunny youth. Welcome to the big leagues. Now get a job. It's a dog-eat-butterfly world out here.
You can’t choose your family, so naturally there are going to be qualities about your bloodline that you might find absurd—especially when it comes to family traditions. Whether it's a tradition that was conjured up out of thin air or a ritual done every holiday for generations, these stories shared on various Redditthreads prove that kindred rites are not all the same.
Love them, hate them, but can't live without them.
They will get wasted and just get louder and louder and then one will shout something along the lines of, "You want to back that up?" and then they will go outside and fight.
We all watch and cheer for our favorite aunt to win and sometimes we will even video tape the fight so that we can watch it later and laugh about it.
So my family plays this game where if someone is holding something and you yell “drop the bass” they have to drop what they’re holding so my mom was holding a carton of eggs so I yelled it and she looked me dead in the eye, dropped then eggs on the floor and whispered, “you’ve gone too far.”
It's more between my brother and I than our whole family. Whenever we'd eat at a fast food place we would play "The last fry", and it was just that, the one that ate the last fry won, sometimes we'd hide it for hours then eat it and say "MMMM IT TASTE SOOOO GOOD WHEN ITS THE LAAAAAST FRY!!!" One time I put my fry in my backpack and found it a couple weeks later, totally won that time.
5. Pour one for the homies, MissSmoking. Pour one.
I don't know if it's "wtf," but in my family, we go to the graveyard on Christmas eve and pour the dead relatives favorite drinks on their gravestones. I am from Denmark.
6. LordofMylar and his cousins probably suffered from brain freeze a lot as kids.
When I was a kid, the aunts and uncles would get all the kids a gallon of their favorite ice cream on the 4th of July. They would sit us down at a table and give us all our ice cream at the same time.
Here's the fun part. The first kid to tackle the entire gallon of ice cream got $5. This always lead to all of us kids eating ice cream very quickly, and thus getting brain freeze(ice cream headache). Within minutes there are a half dozen children roaming the backyard clutching at their sinuses in pain while adults laugh at them. I'm so glad I finally caught on.
7. Don't tell PETA what Shaven_craven's family does with their food during the holidays.
Whenever we make a turkey or goose for thanksgiving and christmas, we have to slap it. I don't know why. the slapping takes place when the turkey is in the roasting pan, you just slap it with moderate force, about the force you would use to slap a fly or mosquito on your leg.
Whenever I asked my grandma she would sing "it's tradition!" and never answer the question beyond that.
8. Thanks to this starchy food, Schnitzli and his family are acing any test that comes their way.
Whenever anyone of us has to take an exam they take a single uncooked potato with them. This has been tradition ever since my grampa found one in his pocket after acing his driving test.
We're not a particularly superstitious family otherwise, but The Potato has proven itself indispensable.
My sister accidentally started a tradition when she was a kid. She wandered into my parent's room one evening after watching TV and asked them, "Who is John Belushi?" I think she was 8 or 9 at the time. My parents, who were big fans, told her who he was and then asked her why she wanted to know. Her response was "oh, he died" and she wandered out of their room. She did the same thing about a week later with another celebrity and my parents, having forgotten about how she asked about John Belushi reponded the same way, explaining who the celebrity was and then asking why and got the same response from my sister "oh, he died". Now whenever there is a celebrity death, everyone in my family and several family friends rush to call/text someone else in the family so they can be the first person to report it and the call/text always starts with "Who is ___?!" and usually the other person responds with "oh no, how did they die?!"
The person who manages to tell someone else first usually is referred to as "winning" that round. We're a little morbid.
It's close to sacrilege in our family, but that doesn't stop us. Our dogs (two whippets and a Treeing Walker coon hound) sleep in our beds with us, and on cold winter nights we'll sometimes sneak into each other's rooms and steal a dog out from under the covers and carry them to our own beds.
My brother and I both got a cake when we grew our first pube. Didn't think it was too weird at the time. Just wanted cake.
EDIT: This is hilarious. I really didn't think people would be this surprised since my parents actually told me all Korean families do this (i'm korean). Guess not :/
As for how they found out, here's the story.
My brother who is 1 yr older than me was in the bathroom one time. He was in grade 5 at the time I believe. So he's just in there doing his business when all of a sudden..., "MOM MOM MOM!!" He storms out of the bathroom straight into my parents all excited. He tells her that he has a hair growing above his grade 5 chode. She says that she doesn't believe him, that he's far too young. Although embarrassed at first, he proceeds to pull his pants down and reveal.. which indeed.. is his first strand of pube. My mom then gets all excited and calls my dad who is at work, who also gets very excited. She tells him to bring cake to celebrate this monumental moment. I was in the other room on the computer just hearing all this happen. Again... I only really cared about the cake.
2 months later. I got a pube. Family rejoiced. Cake.
12. Now that's how you celebrate womanhood, Awesomesauce00.
My family threw a pizza party when I had my first period.
Not my family, but my ex-girlfriend who is Ukrainian (this fact is important to the story) has really weird family traditions.
When she was in elementary school her dad used to wake her and her brother up 2 hours before school everyday. Then he would put on a cassette tape of Ukrainian folk songs and they would take turns singing. When one of them finished a song he would hold up a card with a number between 1 and 10 written on it to rate their performance.
Still cracks me up when I think about it. Her family did a lot of weird things.
My great grandma used to do body shots off of babies.
Whenever a family member would come over with their baby, my great grandma would check to see if the soft spot on their head had closed up. If it hadn't, she'd put tequila on the soft spot and suck it off of our heads. She did it apparently to close the hole faster, because evil spirits come in from that hole and she believed that it took them out.
Some of my aunts still do this.
15. Swankengr takes clothes-matching to a "howl" other level.
My brother-in-law thought the "three wolf moon" shirts were hilarious so he bought one. My husband also thought it was funny so he bought one with more wolves on it (to up the ante). My sister and I then bought a wolf shirt for my dad so he could fit in with the guys. They wear these shirts in public when they are all together and call themselves the "wolf pack." My parents even named their boat "three wolf moon." My sister and I are both due to have little boys this winter. We are on the hunt for wolf onesies...
I get a glass of champagne shoved into my hand as soon as I wake up on Christmas morning. Instant tipsy.
17. You probably don't want to be a part of Thousands_of_Spiders' family after hearing their brutal ritual.
The men in my family have epic towel fights at most get-togethers. We've been doing it for nearly a decade and we play pretty rough. Welts, bruises, and some occasional blood is shed. It's barbaric. It's painful. It's a good show.
For the last eight years my brothers and I have surgically removed a cyst from my mother's head every Thanksgiving or Christmas (one year both). It started Thanksgiving 2005, two of my brothers had just finished their first year as surgical technicians, and we had a couple nurses and an anesthetist around. My mother had always grown these horrible cysts on her head! , but refused to go get them taken care of because she hated doctors and logic. So that Thanksgiving my oldest brother had, had enough and after lots of ribbing, convinced mom to let us cut one out. We cut out the first one using discarded medical supplies from the hospital and some local anesthetics that my brother had liberated in anticipation of his plan. The procedure was successful, my youngest brother only passed out once and we’ve cut one out every year since. Mom no longer looks like she has aliens coming out of her head, and we all get to work out our childhood frustrations by safely and carefully taking a scalpel to her head.
Edit: Of course the comment about my gross family explodes…I love you reddit! Also to all the pms, she doesn’t have cancer, she’s actually a nurse herself (isn’t that fucking hilarious), and no we do not make house calls on Easter ;).
19. Sonicwombat should change his name to "Sonicplatypus."
My mom couldn't remember if there was a "mythical creature" associated with birthdays like there is for Christmas, Easter, losing teeth, etc so in a panic she made one up, hoping it was the right one. We grew up with the Birthday Platypus.
My mom's logic after inventing the Birthday Platypus was that she couldn't get rid of him without probably also destroying Santa Claus so she kept him around. It didn't help my brother and I with not being the weird kids at school when asking other kids what the Birthday Platypus brought them. 20+ years later and we still celebrate with the Birthday Platypus.
If you existed on the Internet on Tuesday, you're probably already aware that Taylor Swift attended Monday's night's Met Gala while dressed like the sort of alien that would drive Captain Kirk crazy.
What you might not be aware of is that the members of the band HAIM also attended the gala, dressed like what would happen if the Three Fates did a line for White House/Black Market.
Most importantly, after the after-parties, it appears that T. Swift and HAIM climbed into animal onesies and ordered pizza, because of course they did.
Swift and HAIM have been friends since at least early 2015. They also recently hung out at the other big be-seen social event of the spring, Gigi Hadid's 21st birthday.
Britney Spears went bathing suit shopping, which is important news because she posted an Instagram of her favorite suit. It's a little 2007-ish, but Britney can rock it because she's Britney Spears and she can do anything she wants, including posting corn to her Instagram.
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Clever Britney has posed in front of a white wall (topped off with some tasteful art), thus making it hard for haters to discern if she's Photoshopped herself.
A creepily close inspection of this bathing suit (which doesn't show off Britney's unquestionably fab abs) reveals that Britney's boobs look great in this suit, especially when she's hugging onto them for dear life.
Is there a possibility that they're going to spill out of her suit? Yes, but those are risks one must run for a hot selfie.
Adam Levine's 26-year-old Victoria's Secret model wife Behati Prinsloo is pregnant with their first child and he is apparently very involved in "their" pregnancy. So much so that he's deluded himself into thinking he's pregnant, too. On Tuesday night, the 37-year-old Maroon 5 singer posted a picture on Instagram of the couple sharing their week 20 "bumps."
The picture is captioned: "Week 20 and I'm finally popping! #impregnanttoo"
Oh, Adam. No, you're not. Are you exhausted? Bloated? Are your breasts sore? Are you raging from out-of-control hormones? Look, it's great that you feel part of this—you totally are! And that's great. But you don't actually have to be in on every single part of the pregnancy. It's okay for your focus to be just on your lady. You don't have to be in the picture all the time. I know this is hard for you. But it's good practice for when the baby comes and you will have to focus so much more of your attention on not yourself. Pump the brakes just a smidge. Good luck, buddy. You can do this.
Ted Cruz called it quits on his presidential campaign on May 3, a move which called for a somber speech, Twitter jokes, and lots of sad hugs. Unfortunately, Ted Cruz isn't great at giving hugs. After wrapping up his concession speech, Cruz "accidentally" (quotation marks added because he might be the Zodiac Killer) hit his wife, Heidi, in the face. Again and again.
Poor Heidi. First, she had to listen to her husband give up, and then she was rewarded with an elbow in the face.
Redditors had some on-the-nose reactions to Ted Cruz's failed hug. CaptLongbeard wrote Cruz's apology to his wife.
"Sorry honey, still getting used to this human vessel."
gangbangkang shared a joke that's been done before, but has never been so fitting.
Cruzin for a bruisin
Drunk_N_Depressed made a Zodiac Killer reference, because those aren't old yet.
The Zodiac Killer's rage is coming back. Run for your life girl.
Ted, your presidential efforts weren't in vain. They resulted in this amazing video:
When your dream date isn't available for a special occasion, sometimes you've got to improvise like high school senior Chloe Raynaud. “I hadn't gotten asked yet and prom was approaching quickly, so I was thinking about who would make a good prom date," Raynaud told Revelist. She landed on Bernie Sanders, who honestly seems like he'd make a chill prom date. Raynaud wasn't after the real Sanders, though: she ordered a cardboard version of the politician online to serve as her date.
Raynaud took the traditional prom photos with Sanders, whose political standpoints she "really identifies with" and whose cardboard self knows how to do the classic prom pose.
Cute couple that they are, Raynaud dressed in homage to Sanders.
Sanders also accompanied Raynaud on the dance floor.
not gonna lie, going with Bernie was an experience, but I felt like an absolute princess (that sports bra tan tho) pic.twitter.com/QKdnFZwgPs
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Trey Potter surprised his mom, MelissaRoshan (MelRo) Potter, with a promposal. MelRo was pregnant with Trey at the time of her prom, so she never had the opportunity to go through the teen rite of passage. “She never had that experience and she’s risked so much for throughout my life and made so many sacrifices. I thought it would be the right thing to do,” Trey told ABC 6.
MelRo grew up in the foster system, having lived in 23 different foster homes, and was pregnant and homeless at 16. She dedicated her life to making sure her son felt loved and supported.
“When I was pregnant with him well, I heard, ‘Mel because you lived in the foster care system, you’re probably not going to raise a thriving individual. It just doesn’t happen. You can’t give him what you don’t have.’ So seeing who he has become and knowing the sacrifices that have been made and how much I love him and seeing that come to fruition, I’ve proved him wrong,” Potter said.
After Donald Trump took Indiana on Tuesday night, Politico and other publications started reporting that Ted Cruz was dropping out of the presidential race. This eliminated what many believed to be the only republican candidate who could possibly overtake Trump, and the only candidate who had desperately tried to name a running mate way, way too early in the process. Here are 20 of the funniest reactions on Twitter to news of Cruz's dropout.
Apparently, the over-the top costume gowns weren't the only drama at Monday night's Met Gala. Nicki Minaj posted (and later deleted) an Instagram photo of herself on the event's red carpet along with designer Jeremy Scott. An awkward-looking Demi Lovato has wandered into the picture, blinded by the laser beams of pure hatred shooting out of Minaj's expert side-eye.
The "Anaconda" singer tagged both Scott and Lovato in the Instagram. Lovato posted some emojis (laughing, peace sign, thumbs up).
Minaj deleted that photo, but she left up another, very similar one, with both Scott and Lovato, but minus the side-eye, and minus the tag for Lovato (basically acting as though Lovato weren't in the picture).
The omission of Lovato's name made some people wonder if there was some kind of secret beef (your new band name) between the two singers. But Lovato reposted the original photo to her own account and wrote in the caption:
This picture pretty much summed up my first and probably last met #cool#sofuckingawkward#notforme#sweatpants#forensicfiles#whatsgood p.s. some of y'all need to learn how to take a joke.. I'm obviously laughing at the fact that 1. I look incredibly awkward and 2. That the shade being thrown in this picture actually gives me life
Seems like pretty low key drama, if anything. Nicki looks like this at everyone who crosses her path. This is just her default expression—pure, perfect, wonderful disdain. But Demi, Nicki throwing more shade at you than an entire forest is going to be giving a lot of people life. There are hospitals using this photo right now instead of blood transfusions. Oh, and get ready to be memed like you've never been memed before.
Actor Chris Evans stopped byThe Tonight Show on Tuesday, and he received a pretty icy reception as he and Fallon played a little blackjack, but raised the stakes so the loser would get ice water funneled into their pants. The stunt seems more like some light fraternity hazing than something you do to a guest on your television show, but it's still pretty hilarious. Check out the oddly sexual clip below.
Come on Chris, Captain America was frozen for seventy years! Surely you could take a bit of chilly water to the nether regions.
Watch Star Wars: The Force Awakensas told by emojis to celebrate May the fourth (fans adopted May 4 as the Star Wars holiday because it's so close to "may the force") or just because you love the movie. It's a great way to watch The Force Awakensvery quickly. It also makes the most touching, thrilling, and sad moments of the film a little bit more joyful. Who knows, there may also be some hidden clues about the characters that nerds have not yet uncovered:
She writes in the caption of the Vanity Fair shot:
Any friends of fans of mine who posted this I would appreciate if you took it down. The photographer Photoshopped my face to make my jaw smaller and I find it really offensive for anyone to try and change the way you look so drastically. I love the way I look and I won't support anyone who would feel a need to change the way I look to make me beautiful. Whether or not they realize it, it is a form of bullying, which I won't stand for.
Rumer has frequently been body-shamed and flooded with negative comments, by people who presumably forget that her father, Bruce Willis, was in Die Hard and will destroy them. She uses her Instagram as a place to spread messages of body positivity.
Necessary reminder to all of the toxic people spreading negativity in my comments. I will not allow the space I have created to share parts of my life with you all to become a breeding ground for people to spread there judgment and hate. If you have nothing nice to say stay out of my comments. It truly makes me sad that we can't just support and give love and help lift each other up instead of putting each other down to quell or own insecurities. #exactly#spreadlove
Redditor Josh5591 was at work doing work stuff when he looked down at his desk and realized that something trippy was going on: his ruler was defying logic, thanks to to the help of some well-placed paper. This ruler is no ordinary ruler, it's an all-mighty piece of plastic that will make you question everything you know.
Keep staring at the ruler. It's straight—honest to God, that ruler is straight.
It's a tough fact to accept.
"It was a complete fluke," Josh5591 said of the greatest optical illusion known to man (so far this year). "I usually fan out these papers to keep things separate while I work with them. I tossed my ruler to one side and when I went to pick it up I was taken aback and thought my ruler had magically bent."
Seriously, magic.
This ruler needs its own reality show.
A redditor by the name of Seratne has done everyone a favor and made a GIF so that human minds can understand the ruler is, in fact, straight.
