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A Broadway audience member is being hailed as a hero after a viral video showed him snapping at “loud and obnoxious” theatergoers during a performance of Mamma Mia!. According to the man, the group was singing obnoxiously loud, clapping, laughing, and talking during the first act of the musical. The clip from Jan. 3, 2026, shows the man loudly reprimanding the group during intermission. “You want to make a scene, I’m going to make a scene,” the man said and called for security. “Mess with my teenage nieces again. It’s bulls**t!” @deejaykahle/TikTok, @officialuncledaddy/TikTok The man, who went public as @officialuncledaddy on TikTok, responded to the viral meltdown in another clip shared on Jan. 9, 2026. He said the group ignored multiple requests to keep it down, and “replied with profanity on separate occasions, directed at my nieces, directed at my wife, directed at me.” When he went to find an usher, he returned to find one of the group hovering her hands over his nieces’ heads. “And that’s when the video starts… I’m asking for security to come to us, because at this point, I had had enough… It had gone way too far.” View this post on Instagram A post shared by Derek Kahle (@deejaykahle) An eyewitness in the comments on Instagram confirmed that the group of women acted disruptively during the first half of the musical. @officialuncledaddy I’m Mamma Mia’s Uncle Daddy #mammamia #broadway #uncledaddy #mammiamiabroadway #crashout ♬ original sound – Uncle Daddy @jerseyredhead was seated behind the man who apprehended the theater goers for bad behavior and validated his response. “One of the women definitely was drinking and the other 2 were singing very loudly during the performance,” she wrote. Reportedly, the man asked them to quiet down and when they responded with inappropriate language, he exploded into the rant recorded in the clip. The Instagram user added that security “removed the woman and her party for the remainder of the performance,” and the man apologized to bystanders. “Love him, love this energy, more people should be publicly shamed for their atrocious behavior IN PUBLIC SETTINGS, especially since it seems like people have lost all decorum since the pandemic shutdown.” @krmb20/Instagram “i can’t even blame him, people have terrible theater etiquette” @snerixx/Instagram “Ushers need to be more on top of audience issues. There are people singing along out loud at musicals, taking videos and pictures, talking, and on their phones looking at social media instead of the theatrical production. There is a lack of theater etiquette. Some people don’t even dress nicely for live theater performances. They come in wearing flip-flops and shorts, as if they’re going to Disneyland. ” @oscar.mcfarlane/Instagram 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 “You want to make a scene, I’ll make a scene!”: Man berates “loud and obnoxious” audience at “Mamma Mia!” on Broadway 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.

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The White House posted a meme on Jan 15 that appropriated Stardew Valley’s style to promote its “whole milk” initiative. The tweet read, “Whole milk is back. ” and included a partially AI-generated graphic. @WhiteHouse/X The image shared by the White House showed President Donald Trump as a Stardew Valley-style character in a barn. Meanwhile, AI-generated scenery filled the background. Icons appeared on the left side of the image, including an American flag, a police badge, and a MAGA hat, among others. Stardew Valley fans slammed the “AI slop” image Soon after, someone reposted the image to the r/StardewValley subreddit. Although moderators later removed it for being political, the comments piled up quickly. People expressed anger, confusion, and mockery in equal measure. Whole milk is back. ? pic.twitter.com/kHf51s5qwX— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 15, 2026 Critics accused the administration of taking from artists without legal clearance. Many online argued that this happened because officials assumed they would not get approval, or because they did not view the arts as a legitimate profession. “Jesus….this is so bad… and it’s AI slop too. ” u/Sigma_Male_69420 wrote. u/DeafnotDeath added, “They absolutely did not. F*cking freaks running the White House PR have been stealing countless artists’ work, regardless of size.” Mockery followed as well. “You know this clown would exclusively pick the Joja run too,” u/Derpykins666 joked. @acxtrila/X @PizzaRoll999/X Some people fixated on the gold count, which read 45464748. u/Dumi2e asked if it was a dog whistle, to which u/Unaccomplishedcow responded, “45 (he was the 45th president) 46 (he thinks he won 2020, making him the 46th potus) 47 (he won 2024, making him 47 right now) 48 (he wants to serve a third term)” Elsewhere, @BrennenWilde tagged Stardew Valley creator Eric, aka ConcernedApe, on X. “Hey, the Trump admin is currently using AI generated art of your game for their propaganda,” they wrote. So far, Eric had not responded. Critics questioned the “whole milk” messaging While fans debated art theft, others questioned the message itself. “Is this an agriculture campaign?” @RocketGPT asked. However, several users pointed to darker associations. X user @eggploont connected the meme to past extremist symbolism. They wrote that whole milk had served as a white supremacist dog whistle. They shared a New York Times article describing geneticist Dr. John Novembre’s 2018 conference talk about whole milk’s ties to white supremacy. The article explained that white nationalists had chugged milk in 2017 to promote adult lactose tolerance. “In most of the world,” the article explained, “the gene that allows for the digestion of lactose switches off after childhood. But […] a chance mutation that left it turned on [in Europe] provided enough of a nutritional leg up that nearly all of those who survived eventually carried it.” Because that trait appeared more often in white Europeans, extremists used it to push racist ideas. Given the Trump administration’s hardline stance on immigration, some people on social media questioned whether the “whole milk” messaging carried a more troubling subtext. 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 “It’s AI slop, too”: The “Stardew Valley” fandom pushes back after White House “whole milk” meme appeared first on The Daily Dot.