When beekeepers get into beef on TikTok, I’m here to tell you about it.
Biggest internet fight of the week: BeeKeeper brawl on TikTok
Like any sane person, I think we should kill all bees and the rest of nature as soon as possible, but apparently there are people out here who actually like bees, and nobody likes bees as much as Erika Thompson. But there is serious drama buzzing around TikTok’s favorite beekeeper.
Thompson is the undisputed queen of online video content all about bees. She regularly collects tens of millions of views from fans who love to watch her dive right into colonies full of stinging monsters, relocating bees to new hives, playing around with swarms, and probably pollinating flowers themselves. And all of this without safety equipment – without a bee mask, bee suit or even gloves.
However, many TikTok beekeepers are not fans, especially one nameless beekeeper at LA honey bee rescue who posted a series of videos calling on Thompson to set a dangerous precedent, cover up her husband’s help, and misrepresent the worse side of bee life.
“I don’t see them with power tools. I don’t see them with ladders … we all know that you are pretending. It looks really pretty because it’s fake, ”the beekeeper said pungently in the takedown video.
“I had bees coming through my hood and stinging my whole face when I was 10 feet tall in this tree,” she added.
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I’m not a beekeeper, but honey, maybe the bees keep stinging you in the face because you have so few TikTok followers? Maybe they smell your jealousy? Anyway, let’s hope the drama catches the full attention of all bees in the world and distracts them from pollinating our plants so that nothing can grow back and we can end this sad farce once and for all.
This Week in Celebrity You’ve Never Heard Of: Khabane Lame
As far as I know, TikTok’s newest instant sensation, Khabane Lame, didn’t give an opinion on the beekeeping protocol, but his channel is the funniest on the internet anyway. Lames Schtick is simple and ingenious: He reacts to overly complicated and / or ridiculous “lifehack” videos with a perfect, expressionless headshake and demonstrates how easy it is not to chop something – for example peel a banana and eat it. (It’s easier to see than to describe so check it out.)
Before Lame took up his position last year, he was an unemployed factory worker in Italy; now he has more than 65 million followers, and that without fancy productions, brand sponsorships or Hollywood money to support him – just a solid idea, a cheap camera and perfect facial expressions.
Viral Video of the Week: Army of the Dead Pitch Meeting
A a few weeks ago, I was disgusted with the upcoming zombie heist flick Army of the Dead. This week I’m offering my apologies in the form of an imaginary pitch meeting for the film by YouTubers Screen Rant.
(Heavy spoilers ahead!) The video reveals every logical leap, bad decision, subplot abandoned, and failure of this plump, stupid movie, including the fact that the casino owner hires a crew to steal money he already owns by turning into one Safe breaks in, rather than just combining with the safe, the neat fact that helicopters can fly out of Las Vegas but not into it, and the characters’ tendency to have long heart-to-heart conversations as their impending death by zombies is looming just moments away. The only thing they missed, however, is how graceful the Army of the Dead zombies are. I can handle fast zombies, strong zombies, and even zombies with baby zombies, but as my brother-in-law Dana pointed out, some of the attack scenes look like the cast of Jesus Christ: Superstar has risen from the grave, and that’s a step too far.
This Week In Pride: Internet Mocks Company Pride Gear
It’s June, Pride month, and that means the annual internet tradition of taunting the LBGTQ community for the deaf way multinational corporations market the market.
From Nike’s brand new “Be true” kicks to WalMarts “Born like this” Rainbow shirts, everyone gets into the “We love gays – this month” mind and the internet fires back with memes and jokes. Here is a funny collection of buzzfeed, and check out the Chris Thorburn Photoshops from Twitter Rainbow logos of evil corporations in dystopian science fiction films.
While most of it seems fun, some people on the internet are really pissed off (angry people online? I can’t believe it!). I understand how companies notice what you do and try to sell it back to you in a ridiculous and outrageous way – but then again, it seems like progress to me when brands realize that LGBTQ people are just another segment of the market to capitalize on .
The first TikToker in space
What I can only hope for will be a widespread trend, a TikToker being shot into space. However, it is not the next evolution of abandonment culture; Space tourism company Virgin Galactic sends bioastronautics researchers / online influencers Kelly Gerardi into space to carry out weightless experiments.
Gerardi, who has more than 400,000 followers on TikTok, said her dream was to “spend uninterrupted consecutive minutes in space in zero gravity to do my research.” And the dream will come true.
“We’re sending them into space, but there are no plans for their return,” said a Virgin spokesman. “Ideally, your body will forever float in a black and silent void,” they did not add.
