A few months ago, it came out that Ben Affleck has a giant tattoo of a phoenix covering most of his back. His ex, Jennifer Garner, has already condemned the tattoo in words much more eloquent than the tat's design. Now everybody is getting in on hating the phoenix.

Jennifer Lopez (of Bennifer, RIP) spoke with Andy Cohen on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live and she had nothing good to say about the back tat. Skip to 1:14 to hear Lopez's thoughts, and keep listening to hear her explain the "feud" between her and Mariah Carey.

"It's awful," she said quite succinctly. "I mean, I would tell him that. I would tell him, 'What are you doing?' It has too many colors. His tattoos always have too many colors. They shouldn't be so colorful." 

The tribe has spoken. The tattoo is bad.

There are myriad ways you can express yourself with emojis, from jazzing up captions on Instagram to, most recently, reacting to Facebook posts by choosing a yellow smiley icon that captures your emotional response. As technology advances and new forms of emoji arise, so do the troubling legal consequences when you use them the wrong way.

This past Saturday,The Washington Postreported that a 12-year-old girl from Virginia was charged with threatening her middle school after creating a post on Instagram with the words “killing” and “meet me in the library Tuesday," as well as knife, gun, and bomb emojis. She confessed to the message after being confronted by police.

According to The Free Thought Project, the girl’s mother told reporters that her daughter had “never been in trouble before,” and recently, she was being bullied in school. “I don’t think it’s a case where there should have been charges,” she said.

It is unclear if the charges against the student have been dropped, but this isn't the first time violent emojis have led to criminal charges. In February of last year, a New York City teenager named Osiris Aristy faced terror charges after he posted three gun emoji next to an emoji of an officer's head. His attorney told the New York Daily News at the time that his 17-year-old client "expressed a dislike of the police based on a particular experience, but never threatened to act on that."  

Bradley Shear, a lawyer who focuses on social media law, told Mashable: “It really comes down to what’s surrounding the matter. When someone sends an emoji, it can mean a whole bunch of different things.” Shear added: “These cases are only increasing. The more people are using their cell phones and posting on the Internet, the more emoji will creep up as evidence in cases.”

What do you think?

Yelp's supposed HR problems have been leading to huge PR problems, every since a former employee got the ball rolling with a viral open letter saying she didn't make enough money. The letter, written by former customer service employee Talia Jane, was directed to Yelp's CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, and explained how the company does not pay a living wage.

Jane's post sparked yet another discussion about millennial entitlement, with critics saying that she (and her generation) lacked personal responsibility and good judgment. Many thought she was merely kvetching to the CEO while she could be more careful with her own finances or just move in with a roommate or two.

"Every single one of my coworkers is struggling," the 25-year-old wrote. Now, people are coming forward to say that the working conditions at Yelp aren't just bad by millennial standards.

Jaymee Senigaglia, a single mother of a 3-year-old, was fired on February 29th (talk about a sh*tty Leap Day), and also took to Medium to tell her story, in a post titled, "Yelp Fired A Single Mother Today: Me."

She writes:

I am the single mother whose boyfriend was in a horrible mountain biking accident on Saturday and landed in the ICU with a brain bleed.

I am the single mother who immediately told my manager and director what happened and I would be the one caring for him. They told me they hoped he would be okay, they were so sorry, and would look into options Monday.

I am the single mother who while in the ICU today got a phone call from my manager, director, and HR who said I could either come in now or resign. When I said I needed some time and this is all traumatic with caring for my boyfriend they told me that I would need to make a decision by noon and if I didn’t come in or resign, they would terminate me. In tears I said ok and hung up.

The letter is going viral, and even got attention from celebrities like Questlove.

The post was picking up a lot of traction to the point that Yelp felt the need to respond with a tweet. The company says that they gave Senigaglia ample warning about her unexcused absences, and the job just wasn't a good fit.

 Senigaglia then responded to their response:

Hey Yelp, can you send over a record of these repeated warnings you speak of? I must have been absent for them. Also, how about a recording of our call yesterday? What’s confusing about your Twitter post is that after being told if I came in business would resume as usual as if nothing had happened or I could resign. That’s an interesting option for an employee who isn’t a good fit.

Yikes. Yelp will likely be getting some bad reviews on Yelp.

Wanting to treat her mum to a surprise Mother's Day party (which is this upcoming Sunday in the UK), Nicole Davies carefully laid out delivery instructions for the company she used to order party gear. "It's a surprise party for my mother and we live together, so please can the box not look obvious it's party supplies," Davies wrote.

The company proceeded to deliver the package, with the label making it quite clear that they'd received the message.

As you can see, Davies was pissed, and took to Twitter to make sure the company received her feedback, which has since been re-tweeted over 5,000 times. If the box didn't already ruin the surprise party for her mom, the picture going viral almost certainly has.

While some joined her in flaming the delivery company, many Twitter users responded by blaming the label on Davies herself.

Others chimed in just to scoff at the fact that this is considered news.

Sorry Nicole, but this has grown far bigger than your mom's ruined surprise party. Someone must accept responsibility for this echo chamber of outrage.

Who's the official Mother's Day scapegoat?

When Shalom Nchom was nine years old and living in Nigeria, an accident involving a pan of hot cooking oil left her with burn scars on her face, neck, chest, head, and hands. Over the years, she learned to do her makeup expertly to hide the scars but never really felt happy until she learned to love how she looked without makeup, too. She now posts makeup tutorials on YouTube under the username Shalom Blac.

Last week, she added her contribution to the "Power of Makeup" challenge, which involves making up one side of the face while leaving the other side completely natural. Her video showcases the transformational aspect of makeup, but she says she also hopes it inspires people to love their faces just as they are, makeup-free.

In another YouTube video she posted called Story Time, she talks about the accident that burned her and her sister. They were rushed to the hospital, where she remembers feeling like she "wanted to die." She eventually passed out from the pain.

It wasn't until a few days later, after her head continued to swell, that the doctors realized the full extent of the damage under her hair. After they removed her cornrows and shaved most of her head, they found that 95 percent of her head was covered in burns.

When she and her sister were finally discharged from the hospital about four months later, she remembers people staring at her and giving her "nasty" looks. Not knowing how else to react, she hid her sadness and started being "rude" to anyone who looked at her. That, in turn, made people think she was "crazy."

Even when she was finally allowed to leave the hospital and go home, she was afraid to go out. The little kid next door she used to play with came over, saw her, and ran away screaming and crying. He wouldn't believe it was her, saying that she looked like a "monster."

An aunt who lived in America helped them navigate the difficult process of getting visas so Nchom and her little sister could come to the U.S. for reconstructive plastic surgery. Her aunt raised money to get them the surgery, thinking that because they were girls, it was especially important that they look good or no one would want to marry them.

The surgery separated the tops of her ears from her head, where they'd been fused by the oil. It also diminished some of the burn scars that had been made worse by her clawing at them immediately after the accident, as she tried in vain to remove the oil scorching her skin.

She says she was bullied terribly in high school, which for anyone who has attended high school should come as absolutely no surprise, because teenagers are monsters. She recalls how she'd cover her face completely with thick concealer, caking it on in an attempt to hide the scarring. She admits she had suicidal thoughts, but then she started thinking of all the people who had it worse than her, and the change in perspective helped her. Today, she hopes that she can inspire people to love the lives they've been given.

Shalom also posts pictures and videos showcasing her phenomenal makeup skills on Instagram.

Wesley is a six-month-old golden retriever puppy who was suffering from crooked teeth. His teeth were so malformed, in fact, that the poor pup couldn’t completely close his mouth. Luckily for Wesley, his owner Molly Moore knew the right person to contact to fix her pup's smile: her dad.

Molly's father, Jim Moore, owns a veterinary clinic called Harborfront Hospital for Animals in Spring Lake, Michigan. And, according to BuzzFeed, “Molly’s father happens to be a specialist in veterinary dentistry and had the perfect solution: dog braces.” Dog braces aren't as common as human braces, probably because dogs never look at pictures of themselves smiling and say "Ew, my teeth look so weird!" The clinic wrote on Facebook, "Orthodontia in pets is normally not for aesthetic purposes, but because of health concerns."

Take a look at Wesley's transformation:

Luckily for Wesley, he doesn't need to go through the long and awkward teenage years humans with braces experience. "The good news is, the correction [Wesley] needed will be brief, perhaps only a few weeks," the Facebook caption stated. "Also, it obviously doesn't bother him one little bit...He's a happy little guy."

In the near future, Wesley's bite will be just like any other dog's, and maybe he can even use those teeth to catch some fish.

Despite being a grown-up woman, Taylor Swift loves fairy tales—it's the one motif that reoccurs through the entire span of her career, apart from righteous songs about her exes. So, of course, the pop star references "Prince Charming" and "fated [...] love stories" in her maid of honor speech during the wedding for childhood friend Britany Maack (you know, the woman confident enough to make one of the most famous people in the world her maid of honor).

Her speech starts around 6:34 in Maack's wedding below, which Maack bravely posted online despite probably guessing that entertainment bloggers would creep on it (sorry!).

"He would chase her and pursue her through middle school and junior high and high school and their paths would diverge and then come back together, and it would be so magically unpredictable but at the same time so incredibly fated, just like the best love stories are," Swift said, Taylor Swift-ily. 

The speech picks up again at 7:43. "My favorite accomplishments of my entire life is that everything in my life has changed—except for me and Britany," Swift continues. "She was my partner in crime at Brownies sleep-away camp, and she was my date to the Grammys. And little did either of us know that Prince Charming for Britany would be the kid that sat next to me in class with a bowl cut and a Lego lunch box."

Keep being you, Taylor.

Meet Gimo, a long-haired Scottish Fold with huge saucer eyes who has perfected the art of looking unbelievably, heart-stoppingly, almost pathologically cute.

Remember Puss in Boots from the movie Shrek? Of course you do. His adorable, huge CGI eyes were, much like Nat King Cole, unforgettable. Too bad there aren't any cats that cute in real life...

UNTIL NOW!

Gimo lives with other cats, but none with eyes the size of his.

There's no way Gimo has ever wanted anything he didn't get. All he has to do is turn on the ol' eyeball charm, and his human probably melts into a puddle. A puddle that is ready to cater to its feline master's every whim.

Imagine saying "no" to Gimo. You can't. You can't even imagine it, that's how cute he is.

Don't stare too deeply into Gimo's eyes or else he will get your soul. This is serious. Be warned. ​

Oops, too late. Now you belong to Gimo forever.

A Redditor shared the email his dad supposedly sent his coworkers upon retiring, and of all the dad-like things a dad can do in this day and age, sending this email might be among the dad-liest. The email includes a penis joke, lots of insults, and a request for money. Every retiree should be this cantankerous.

He's part of the last generation that will ever get to retire, so hopefully he enjoys it fully.

The Internet is a trove of randomness that can supply pretty much every service you could think of, including anonymously mailing potatoes. Which, yes, is a thing. The Daily Dot discovered an overwhelming number of potato-mailing services (10!) that will ship potatoes with notes and pictures. 

As surprising as it seems, people seem to really enjoy receiving a potato in the mail from sites like Mystery Potato.

Some of the various potato services, like Text-A-Potato, cater to holidays.

Mail a Spud forgoes packaging, which is nice for environmentalist potato fans.

Anonymous Potato wants to spread good cheer.

Potato in the Post sends weighty birthday cards.

Potato Parcel will stick a little picture on their potatoes, making this already weird service even stranger.

 This is certainly not the worst trend the Internet has produced.

The question is, what happens to these potatoes after they're delivered—are they kept as precious mementos or cooked up? Seems like it could be a waste of some perfectly good spuds.

Shortly before a trip to Las Vegas with her husband Eric, Lisa Sadiwnyk​ discovered she was pregnant, but she had no desire to just simply tell her husband. Inside Edition reported that instead, Sadiwnyk devised a plan to surprise/publicly embarrass him while on their return flight from Vegas. She successfully managed to slip a note to her flight attendants with a request that the pilot read out a message. Then she not-so-secretly filmed it all.

"I'd like to draw your attention to seat 29E," the pilot with a perfect pilot voice said, "where you'll find Eric, who is traveling with his wife Lisa. Well Eric, while you didn't strike it rich here in Las Vegas, you did hit the jackpot. Congratulations, you're about to be a dad."​

Eric looked less than pleased at first, but his wife confirms that after the video cut out, he cried. "It was actually a red-eye flight," she told Inside Edition, "and he said, 'How am I supposed to sleep now?'" He should be more worried about how he's (not) going to sleep when the baby comes.

A Denver DJ allegedly groped Taylor Swift's butt, and nowshe's getting sued.

DJ David Muellerwas fired after being accused of grabbing her butt at a meet-and-greet in June 2013. The radio personality (who was known as Jackson on the air until he was canned) has denied the accusation, and now he's suing Swift and squad for slander.

New papers were filed in a federal court in Colorado, in which Mueller says that the squad "orally published and/or caused to be published to third parties multiple statements that Plaintiff Mueller lifted Taylor Swift‘s skirt and grabbed her bottom during a photo session, or statements in substantially similar words.” The complaint also states that the statements "were false at the time they were made."

At the time of lawsuit's filing, one of Swift's spokespeople told The Wrap that the the radio station where Mueller worked “was given evidence immediately after the incident. They made their independent decision." Swift filed a countersuit that said the event did indeed happen.

The amount of damages he's seeking has not been made public, but it's most likely a butt-load.

The world let out a long sigh of relief after Leonardo DiCaprio finally won his nomination for Best Actor at the 2016 Oscars. But was it really Leo who took home the Oscar, or one of these celebrities who face-swapped with him? During the Academy Awards pre-show, BuzzFeed brought along a picture of Mr. DiCaprio and a phone armed with the face-swap app, and the site's correspondent convinced celebs including Sophie Turner, Forrest Goodluck, Patricia Arquette, and J.K. Simmons to switch their mugs with Leo. Check it out:

The stars also gave some hilarious acceptance speeches as Leo. “I really wanna thank the bear, ‘cause he was a really big part in my Oscar,” Sophie Turner said.

These Leo face-swaps sure make these really ugly criers look a lot more pretty.

Despite India's rapid economic development, the burgeoning world power is still struggling to overcome a number of public health issues, with cultural mores making women's health an even more difficult obstacle to surmount. This has led to over 300 million Indian women not having access to safe menstrual hygiene products.

Fortunately, India is also home to many of the world's brightest entrepreneurs, such as Arunachalam Muruganantham. Upon learning his wife had been using old rags as menstrual products, this inventor became determined to develop an effective alternative—even when his wife left him and his neighbors started calling him a pervert. 

Al Jazeera recognized Muruganantham's inspiring journey and accomplishments in a new video profile:

Years after being cast out as a pervert, his affordable, hygienic pads are now made by 877 different brands. On top of that, his wife eventually got back together with him, and he even landed a spot on Time's 100 Most Influential People. He's also earned the endearing nickname of "India's Menstruation Man," which better be written in large, bolded font on his business cards.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won big, but Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz picked up a handful of states apiece, and Marco Rubio won Minnesota. The leading candidates can see the end in sight, but the thorns in their side haven't given up yet! Victory speeches, rambling talking heads and a forlorn Chris Christie at Donald Trump's side gave Twitter comedians lots to talk about. Here are the 27 funniest reactions to the Super Tuesday results!

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According to online book marketplace AbeBooks, there are only 500 first editions of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The site claims they can list for as much as $40,000 to $55,000, and the one currently up there is listed at $28,689.89. (But that's only if you're willing to spend the extra $26.46 on shipping. It's too flammable to travel by floo powder.)

If you want to make big bucks off of your copy of the book, you first have to make sure you've got the right edition. "The main characteristics of a 1997 first edition first printing" are the following:

• The print line "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1."  

• The author name "Joanne Rowling" instead of J.K.

A first edition Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is like the philosopher's stone of Harry Potter first editions. It's that coveted. You might as well have an invisibility cloak. It's likely much rarer than anything you've ever seen, and there's going to be a collector out there willing to make it disappear.

If that's not the version currently collecting dust on your bookshelf, you could still make some extra money for butter beer if you have a first edition Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the version publishers sold in the U.S in 1998. Abebooks values a first printing of that one at approximately $6,500. Sure, that'll buy you some broomstick, but it's not quite enough to attend Hogwarts full-time.

Learn more about your likely worthless Harry Potter edition here.