Botchamania is a long running, fan made wrestling video series that lovingly collects the strangest, funniest and most chaotic moments from the world of professional wrestling, turning slips, missed cues and on air disasters into pure entertainment. Created with clear affection rather than mockery, it blends botched moves, awkward promos, production mistakes and bizarre commentary with sharp editing, running jokes and playful music choices, so each episode feels like an in joke shared between fans. It celebrates the messy human side of wrestling, the bits that were never meant to happen, and somehow makes them just as memorable as the big matches, giving viewers something light hearted, nostalgic and consistently funny to dip into whenever they want a laugh.
Billie Eilish likes to present herself as morally clear and politically fearless, the kind of celebrity who says what others will not. When she declared that “no one is illegal on stolen land,” the line landed exactly as intended, sharp and applause ready. It sounded righteous, almost poetic. The problem is that slogans are easy when they stay abstract. Things get messier when real life starts to rub against them.
Because in Eilish’s case, that life includes a reported $3 million mansion in California, built on land with its own history of displacement and Indigenous ownership. By her own framing, that ground would also qualify as “stolen land.” Yet there is no talk of relinquishing the property, no public reckoning, no grand gesture to match the sweeping rhetoric. It leaves an awkward gap between what she says and how she lives. Preaching collective guilt while enjoying private luxury rarely looks convincing.
That is where the charge of hypocrisy creeps in. If you are going to use absolute language, people will hold you to absolute standards. You cannot condemn the system from a hilltop home that benefits from the very history you criticise and expect everyone to nod along. Activism from a stage is one thing. Living by the same rules you demand of others is another. Right now, the contrast speaks louder than the speech ever did.
Nicki Minaj has risen from humble beginnings in Queens, New York to become one of the most influential figures in modern music, blending sharp lyricism with boundary-pushing creativity to redefine hip hop for a global audience. Across a career filled with chart success, she has also lent her voice and resources to a range of causes, supporting disaster relief, education and humanitarian efforts while advocating for fundamental rights and human dignity. In recent years she has drawn international attention to the plight of Nigerian Christians facing violence and insecurity, using social media and platforms like a United Nations event to call for awareness, religious freedom and unity in defending people who simply want to worship in peace, reflecting her own faith-inspired commitment to speaking up for the vulnerable.
Television adverts are meant to grab attention, but some pushed so hard they ended up being pulled from the air entirely. Over the years, broadcasters have banned commercials that frightened children, offended families, caused real world harm, or crossed lines viewers were not prepared to accept. These adverts often worked in the short term. People talked about them, remembered them, and shared them. The problem was what came next. Complaints flooded in, regulators stepped in, and brands were forced to retreat after discovering that shock does not always equal success.
Some bans came from fear, like the Kinder Surprise Eggman advert from 1983, where a hyper realistic puppet meant to charm children instead terrified them. Others were banned for their message, such as a Belgian condom advert that ended with a child’s supermarket tantrum and the blunt instruction to use condoms, which many felt mocked parenthood. In Britain, Tango’s famous Orange Man campaign was pulled after children copied the slap seen on screen and one ended up in hospital with a damaged eardrum. Microsoft faced a similar backlash with an Xbox advert showing a baby launched from birth to death in seconds, which viewers found disturbing rather than inspiring. The most serious case came in 2011, when a Citroën advert featuring rapid flashing text triggered epileptic seizures, leading to an outright ban and stricter safety standards. These commercials are still remembered not because they sold products, but because they revealed how quickly attention can turn into outrage when advertising forgets its audience.
Joe Rogan calls out all the “wild” edits MSNBC did to make Alex Pretti “much more handsome.”
“CNN turned me green… and [MSNBC] made him handsome.”
“They made him handsome so people would be more sympathetic to him getting shot.”
“Look at the difference! They shortened up his face. They gave him a little bit of a tan. They widened his face a little bit, it seems like.”
“They shrunk his nose, gave him a little bit of handsome jaw… they changed the tone of the color.”
“They changed his f*cking teeth! They gave him veneers. Look at the differences in his teeth.”
“He’s a much more handsome guy. Like that one on the right is like the handsome brother, and the one on the left is like, ‘F*ck. Why couldn’t I look like the one on the right?’”
Step into the strange and uncomfortable world of the circus sideshow, where people pushed to the margins of society were placed under the spotlight. Beneath the bright lights and loud music were lives shaped by both opportunity and exploitation. Performers with rare conditions were presented as wonders, drawing huge crowds while also facing ridicule, restriction, and, in some cases, outright bans for being considered too shocking for public display.
This piece looks at thirty real individuals whose lives unfolded within that world. It asks what daily life was like for them and how they coped with fame, discrimination, and the limits placed on them by society. Their stories challenge simple ideas of spectacle and cruelty, revealing an era of entertainment where admiration and exploitation often existed side by side, leaving a complicated and lasting mark on history.
