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Hoover, AC/DC, Brian Johnson, commercial

Newly resurfaced clip of AC/DC singer Brian Johnson singing a Hoover vacuum TV jingle is somehow perfect

He recorded the commercial just before joining the band.

Mark Wales – 8/8/2026

Technology, Cybersecurity, Music, Hardware, Weird News

Janet Jackson’s unique song made so many laptops crash that it became a cybersecurity case

jimi hendrix, beatles, sgt. pepper, beatles album, jimi hendrix live

2 days after The Beatles dropped Sgt. Pepper, Jimi Hendrix played a raucous cover of the title song

Steve Miller Band, Chappell Roan, nonce words, songs, lyrics

5 ‘nonce’ words that were completely ‘made up’ for songs and used like they’re real

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grandma showers, grandparents, parenting, family, boomers, kids, babies,

Trendy ‘grandma showers’ get a lot of flack online, but when can they be a good thing?

Heather Wake – 9/30/2025

all-american rejects, punk rock, pop punk, millennials, music, tiktok, gen z, concerts, live music, ticketmaster

Legendary 2000s pop punk band fights the ticket monopoly with throwback ‘house party’ tour

Evan Porter – 5/27/2025

pixel street art of Indiana Jones, Superman, and Jaws

Artist makes everyday spaces magical by cleverly adding pixelated, old-school pop-culture icons

Tod Perry & Upworthy Staff – 2/5/2025

gen z slang, millennial slang, generational humor, high school, teachers

High school teacher gives his students a pop quiz on 90s slang words and it was ‘on fleek’

Heather Wake – 3/6/2025

renters, landlords, apartment for rent, evicted, bad landlords, landlord dispute, apartment living, renter living, squatters, funny, music video, humor, viral

Cleveland renters make epic music video documenting a wild dispute with their landlord

Evan Porter – 8/6/2026

Meghan McCain, body shaming, aging, beauty standards

Meghan McCain has powerfully down-to-earth response to being called ‘old and ugly’

Jacalyn Wetzel – 8/6/2026

tenants rights, petty revenge, art, rental housing, community

They evicted her after 40 years to claim her hand-painted murals. Her parting gift was perfect.

Adam Albright-Hanna & Upworthy Staff – 8/6/2026

Dwayne Johnson, fatherhood, parenting, newborn, kangaroo care

The Rock hadn’t thought about her in decades. A mentalist said her name in under a minute.

Adam Albright-Hanna – 8/5/2026

Jamie Lee Curtis, Michelle Yeoh, women supporting women, hype woman, competition, Golden Globes, Erin Gallagher, LinkedIn, viral, inspirational

Thousands of women shared this image of Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh with a powerful message

Annie Reneau & Upworthy Staff – 8/5/2026

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