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A man’s unconventional approach to helping his wife land a job has struck a chord on TikTok. Facing a tough legal job market, creator @empty_heaven turned his lawyer wife’s resume into a catchy song urging employers to “somebody hire my wife.” He listed his wife’s experience and asked prospective employers to drop their contact information in the comments…and it seems to be working! The catchy tune went viral, with over 1.5 million views on TikTok, and according @Empty_Heaven, resume requests are coming through his DMs. @empty_heaven/TikTok The post from Jan. 7, 2026, resonated with people who loved to see a man going above and beyond to support his wife. “The song wrote itself,” @Empty_Heaven wrote in a comment. TikTok users crowded the comments to show support for his wife’s cause. A resume, but make it a love song @Empty_Heaven wrote in the post’s caption, “My lawyer wife is looking for work; I am helping the only way I am qualified to do so. DM for more information, but this is a weirdly informative song.” The lyrics of the song read: Somebody hire my wife.My wife is an attorney.She’s a lot smarter than me. She’s looking for legal work in Chicago or remote. At legal writing, she’s the GOAT. Let me tell you her experience:She’s done appeals, vehicular, animal cruelty, and SVU. I swear to God, if you hire her, she’ll be a great addition to your crew. Somebody hire my wife.She’s worked government and private.She’s got a real great mindset. She’s the f**king light of my life. Maybe I can help this way. Comment your email, and she’ll send you a resume. The music video resume racked up over 7,000 comments praising the creative approach to job hunting. @empty_heaven My lawyer wife is looking for work; I am helping the only way I am qualified to do so. DM for more information, but this is a weirdly informative song. #lawyer #attorney #legalwork #jobsearch #lawyersoftiktok ♬ original sound – Empty_Heaven “This is the most romantic thing I’ve ever seen,” wrote one commenter. @bikbokboy/TikTok “If you not going this hard for your wife then what are you even married for????” wrote another. @mrhappy1006/TikTok “Do you know what this shows? His wife has a strong and positive relationship at home, so you know his wife will be focused on the work and not the drama at home. Just putting that out there for anyone thinking about bringing her on!” @mzmotorboat/TikTok @Empty_Heaven did not immediately reply to the Daily Dot’s request for comment via TikTok. The internet is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s newsletter here. Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post “Most romantic thing I’ve ever seen”: Man writes a viral song begging the internet to hire his wife—and it actually works appeared first on The Daily Dot.

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Two lovebirds tied the knot at 30,000 feet on a Southwest flight last weekend, forcing other flyers to attend the surprise wedding. A viral TikTok video shows the bride walking down the narrow aisle before she and her man exchanged vows while blocking the front bathrooms. It was admittedly kind of cute, but some would have rather jumped from the plane than sit through that. Southwest passengers become a captive wedding audience Over the second weekend of January, TikToker @katrinabadowski posted footage of the sky-high ceremony to her account. The video gained over 10.4 million views in less than a week. “That one time I witnessed a wedding on a Southwest flight,” the caption reads. Passengers got to be witnesses whether they liked it or not. While they didn’t have to do anything, they also had to hope nature didn’t call during the vows. “Please remain seated as a courtesy to the bride and groom, and if you do have to use the lavatory, please use the one in the back of the aircraft,” said the flight attendant and/or officiant. The woman who married them made sure to acknowledge the audience, speak of them as though they were all willing participants. “Tina and Roger, today is a day unlike any other,” she said. “Not only are you embarking on an adventure of marriage, but you’re doing it amidst the clouds, surrounded by 136 passengers turned to newfound friends.” After the kiss, Tina tossed the bouquet back down the aisle before they passed around a guestbook. Upon landing, the couple walked down the gate decorated with streamers and hearts to a cheering crowd, then drove off in an airport cart with a “just married” sign affixed to the back. Southwest Airlines has long billed itself as “the love airline,” which is apparently what you do when you can’t call yourself “the good airline.” @katrinabadowski Congratulations Tina and Roger ?? @Southwest Airlines #loveisintheair #wedding ♬ Wedding March – Felix J L Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Helmuth Brandenburg Paging Madison Humphrey If Tina and Roger did this for attention, mission accomplished. Much of it was, however, rather negative. On both TikTok and Reddit, many commenters envisioned themselves as one of those passengers and experienced vicarious horror. @katrinabadowski/TikTok “I’ve never seen a wedding hostage situation,” said TikToker @suzsanlane. “’Thank you all for being here’ as if they had another choice,” @avarmajor pointed out. Now everyone’s just waiting for the Madison Humphrey recreation. @katrinabadowski/TikTok “Madison Humphrey on the phone with southwest trying to book a whole plane and terminal,” joked @bxb.les. Shockingly, Redditors on the inevitable r/TikTokCringe repost were more forgiving. “I’ve got mixed feelings,” wrote u/molehunterz. “On one hand I agree, anything that passes the time because flights bore the hell out of me.” “On the other hand, a wedding where I don’t even know people? Would also bore the hell out of me.” u/good-night_moon via Reddit “I’d 100% take this level of cringe over the unsolicited worship and preaching,” said u/good-night_moon. Some, however, had questions about the extremely unenthusiastic groom. “Dude looks like an undercover air marshal who got in too deep,” u/butt-barnacles observed. The internet is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s newsletter here. Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post “Wedding hostage situation”: Southwest passengers forced to attend surprise mid-flight wedding at 30,000 feet appeared first on The Daily Dot.

The White House is attempting to walk back a comment President Donald Trump made about the midterm elections. During an interview with Reuters this week, Trump made a lot of controversial—and, at times, downright false—comments, including some concerning the upcoming midterms, set to take place on Nov. 3, 2026. It’s expected that Republicans might lose seats in Congress at the midterms, which is often the case for the party of the sitting president. “It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms,” he said, adding that he had already accomplished so much during the first year of his second term that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election,” referring to midterms. White House dismisses concern The president’s remarks immediately sparked backlash among those concerned that the president and his administration have little respect for the established norms of American democracy, including free and fair elections. The administration’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, later dismissed concerns by claiming that “the president was simply joking.” “He was saying, ‘We are doing such a great job, we are doing everything the American people thought. Maybe we should just keep rolling,'” she said. “But he was speaking facetiously.” YESTERDAY: Trump: “When you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." Media just now: “The president finds the idea of canceling elections funny?”Karoline Leavitt: “Only someone like you would take that so seriously.”The appropriate answer is “The president should… pic.twitter.com/u1xmctTzve— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) January 15, 2026 The backlash over Trump’s midterms comments The fear that Trump will invoke the Insurrection Act so as to obstruct elections in Democrat-led cities and allow his party to retain power has been growing ever since his return to office last year. The inflammatory language being used regarding protests over ICE, among other things, has added to these concerns, and Trump’s comments about midterms certainly aren’t quelling any fears. 2016: “you’re overreacting”2017: “you’re overreacting”2018: “you’re overreacting”2019: “you’re overreacting”2020: “you’re overreacting”2021: “you’re overreacting”2022: “you’re overreacting”2023: “you’re overreacting”2024: “you’re overreacting”2025: “you’re overreacting”… https://t.co/e8QqKkN97m— davey (@jerseyh0mo) January 15, 2026 “There’s a word for people who think like that: Tyrant,” wrote Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. There's a word for people who think like that:Tyrant. https://t.co/92XyWODNAm— JB Pritzker (@JBPritzker) January 16, 2026 “Who could have possibly seen this coming,” mused @jaubreyYT. Who could have possibly seen this coming https://t.co/qD6JdH0G6w— j aubrey ? (@jaubreyYT) January 15, 2026 It's not the response from his base that he's looking for. It's the non-response from the checks and balances.— BUBBA (fmcjfc) (@fmcjfc) January 16, 2026 “You guys should do something about that,” wrote @AutismRonin. You guys should do something about that https://t.co/FT3fzz5HWW— dani (@AutismRonin) January 15, 2026 In theory, midterm elections take place on November 3 of this year. In reality? Guess we’ll see how things go from here. The internet is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s newsletter here. Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post White House scrambles after Trump says “we shouldn’t even have” midterm elections appeared first on The Daily Dot.

Everybody knows that short-form videos aren’t brilliant for your general psyche. Whether it’s misinformation, TikTok dances, or AI slop, consuming it in large amounts isn’t ideal for anyone — let alone those with young, developing brains. While TikTok is the one everybody is focussed on, we may want to pay a little more attention to YouTube Shorts. YouTube’s short-form offering has vastly risen in popularity these past few years, but an abundance of content doesn’t always mean an abundance of quality. In fact, a recent study says that 20% of YouTube content is AI slop. Inevitably, we can assume that a lot of what we see on YouTube Shorts falls under this category, so it makes sense that parents might want to moderate their children’s consumption of the app a little more. The good news is, thanks to updated parental controls on YouTube, they can. YouTube updates parental controls The most major change is that YouTube will now let parents select a timer for how long they want their children to watch Shorts. Or, if they want to be a little more stringent, they can stop their children from watching Shorts altogether by setting that timer to zero. “This is an industry-first feature that puts parents firmly in control of the amount of short-form content their kids watch,” YouTube said on its announcement post. As well as this, YouTube will allow the parents of a supervised account to set custom “Bedtime” and “Take a Break” reminders. What other measures have YouTube introduced? YouTube has introduced various other measures to tackle Shorts consumption. Recently, they rolled out a new search filter which allows you to choose to see just long-form videos in the results. Moreover, in October, the video giant granted users the ability to limit the number of shorts they can watch in a day. As well as rounding out its robust collection of parental control settings, YouTube also previously introduced age-estimation technology to determine the age of users, and tailor their experience accordingly. This was unveiled last year. YouTube isn’t alone in developing its parental control offerings. As the discourse surrounding young people’s internet usage continues, TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook have all implemented parental control settings of their own. The internet is chaotic—but we’ll break it down for you in one daily email. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s newsletter here. Sign up to receive the Daily Dot’s Internet Insider newsletter for urgent news from the frontline of online. The post Concerned parents can now block their children from watching YouTube Shorts appeared first on The Daily Dot.