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McDonald's is doing a collaboration with KPop Demon Hunters, and people haven't talked about a pop culture restaurant menu partnership as much as this one since, probably, The Grinch or Shrek, both of which also rocked bright, unrealistic food coloring.
Next month, the KPop Demon Hunters X McDonald's menu items will appear at most United States locations, at some locations in Korea, and there are rumors of at least some of the menu items turning up in other countries, as well.
The collaboration has been specifically designed for the fans, giving fans the opportunity to collect rare character cards and also to "choose teams" between the Demon Hunters and the Saja Boys.
The breakfast menu item is perfect for the Saja Boys fans and is called the Spicy Saja McMuffin sandwich, which is a traditional sausage McMuffin, egg, and a spicy "Saja" sauce, paired with a small drink and hash browns.
There's also a dessert item for the Demon Hunters called the "Derpy McFlurry," which is a vanilla-based soft serve with berry-flavored boba pearls and wild berry sauce drizzled throughout, perfectly purple to pair with the supernatural tiger in the film, Derpy Tiger.
But the star of the show is the adult menu option of a 10-piece chicken nugget meal. The HUNTR/X Meal is a 10-piece McNugget meal with a medium drink, fries, and two kinds of sauce.
The fries are called the Ramyeon McShaker fries, which are accompanied with a small bowl of soy, garlic, sesame, and spice seasoning, which customers can pour their fries into and shake up to season.
The two sauces accompanying the meal are the Hunter sauce, which is a sweet chili sauce, and the Demon sauce, which is a bright purple sauce with a bold mustard flavor. In early reviews, both of these sauces have paired well with fries and with the McNuggets.
You can see a preview here:
@isofbelle.eats Are you gonna get it??? I was blown away by the flavors and how unique it is! Such a cool adult happy meal with mc shaker fries, nuggets, purple sauce, and a boba McFlurry #kpopdemonhunters #mcdonalds #happymeal #fastfood #mcflurry
Fans can get behind this collaboration, and the early reviews have been resoundingly positive. However, one of the early reveals has left some raising an eyebrow while others cannot help but side-eye the campaign.
With the menu options arranged methodically in the background, a person reaches in and scoops a McNugget in the Demon sauce, now boldly purple.
The copy of the campaign, shared by Funko POP, reads:
"KPop Demon Hunters fans, Jinu about to put some of that demon sauce on your nuggets."
Some were left side-eyeing the purple sauce.
Millennials were reminded of similar menu items from their childhood.
This collaboration is fun and is definitely meant for the fans to go out and have a good time while enjoying one of their favorite films about inclusion and being true to yourself. Maybe the copy was an interesting choice and the sauce was a little unnecessarily purple, but whether we want to admit it or not, most of us who try it are going to love it.
We're deep in the era of assuming that people are rude, controversial, problematic, and maybe even hateful when they set firm boundaries and protect their peace from the people around them.
Because with our increased access to information, thanks to social media and unending internet resources, we seem to think that if we have a question, we are entitled to an answer simply because we want it.
The Devil Wears Prada star Anne Hathaway has borne the brunt of these negative mindsets for most of her acting career, simply because she will not answer certain questions.
In a video called "Controversial Anne Hathaway Moments," a content creator spliced together five video clips of Hathaway during interviews and interacting with fans.
During the first clip, Hathaway was talking to a reporter who was prying about one of Hathaway's films and interactions with one of her costars. When the reporter asked if the two actors had ever discussed the project in private, Hathaway said yes.
But when the reporter dug for more information, wanting to know what was discussed, Hathaway pointedly asked:
"Why would I tell you?"
In the second clip, while discussing Les Misérables, a reporter tried to shift the conversation into a very personal direction, asking Hathaway about her love life and if she remembered her first crush.
To each question, Hathaway sweetly said, "No," actively shutting down the direction of the conversation.
In the third clip, while being asked if she was having a good time, a man off-camera asked to see her accessories, which she declined to show.
In the fourth clip, while chatting with Jimmy Fallon, she admitted to feeling comfortable with him, while feeling nervous around certain Broadway actors, which Fallon joked was a backhanded compliment to him.
In the fifth clip, Hathaway stood outside of her vehicle, trying to calm down fans. While they yelled for photos and signatures, Hathaway said she couldn't take pictures with everyone, but offered to stand in place, smile, and wave so people could photograph her.
You can watch the collection here:
Fortunately, not everyone was willing to remain silent about the critiques of Hathaway, including one of her former costars.
Baylen Bielitz, who starred as her son in the 2024 psychological thriller Mother's Instinct, stepped up to defend Hathaway, pointing out that she was as genuine off-camera as she appeared to be when cameras were rolling.
Bielitz commented:
"I worked with Anne professionally on a movie. I played her son, actually."
"She is kind and sincere and real. Working with her had an impact on me."
"She is an amazing actress, but who she is when the cameras are not rolling is inspirational."

Others agreed with Bielitz and questioned how Hathaway was being "controversial" or "rude" in these clips.






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Because actors are so frequently in the public eye, some people believe that every detail of their lives should be available for public consumption.
But actors are just as human as their greatest fans, and declining to take photographs when there's a huge crowd, not sharing intimate details of dating off-set, and not wanting to show luxury accessories is far from being "rude" or "controversial."
Few debacles have debacled quite so hard as the infamous 2017 Fyre Fest and the tragic Willy Wonka Experience in Glasgow in 2024. The "sad Oompa Loompa" alone is legendary at this point.
But those two notorious messes might have new competition: The so-called Barbie Dream Fest.
Unfolding in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from March 27–29, Barbie Dream Fest has all the makings of completing the trifecta Fyre and Wonka began: It was a mess, it was expensive, and now it's gone viral.
The Barbie Dream Fest promised an immersive experience in which kids could "explore a larger than life version of Barbie's front yard!"
So naturally, kids and their parents were expecting... well, what was advertised: a giant rendering of Barbie's Malibu Beach House that kids could explore, especially since the company putting on the event said there would be a "walk-in" experience.
And speaking of the company, their name? Mischief Management. That really says it all, in hindsight.
Anyway, what parents and kids actually showed up to was nothing more than a plastic facade in the shape of a house, a pink VW van and blanket of Astroturf in front.
Not only was it not "larger than life," it didn't even fill the event space. It was just shoved back in a corner.
@bbcnews The creators of the Barbie Dream Fest weekend promised "unforgettable experiences", and advertised a roller rink and disco. #Barbie #BarbieDreamFest #Mattel #Florida #USNews #BBCNews
Then there was the "roller rink," which was just an open plot of concrete floor surrounded by barricades, a few of which had the Barbie logo on them. Which many of us could probably just construct in our basements and call it a day.
And according to someone on Reddit who says they attended, it gets worse: The Barbie Dream Fest was billed as a multi-day convention!
The Redditor wrote:
"I bought the pink pass for all 3 days($300), I bought a hotel room for the entire weekend($600). I'm already up to a $1000, but I figured it's worth it as long as I have fun." ---u/Adventurous_Pen_165
The attendee was so "flabbergasted" by what they found when they arrived that they ended up going to the customer service desk and asking, "Is this it?" To which the rep responded that they'd been getting that question all day. Uh oh.
So naturally, Fyre Fest and the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience debacles were the first things to come to everyone's mind, and Barbie Dream Fest quickly went viral for all the wrong reasons.
But some pointed out that Barbie Dream Fest is actually much, much worse, because unlike the Willy Wonka Experience and other viral "con" fails, this one was actually affiliated with Mattel, makers of Barbie.
In a statement, the toy maker announced that attendees would be given full refunds for the debacle. Some attendees have shared online that they have already received their refunds just two days after the event ended.
On the Thursday, March 26, broadcast of the Today show, Hoda Kotb interviewed host Savannah Guthrie about her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie, who disappeared from her home in Tucson, Arizona, in the early hours of February 1, 2026.
Nancy Guthrie was last seen on the night of January 31. Surveillance footage then showed a masked individual disconnecting her home security camera around 1:47 am.
During the emotional interview, Savannah shared a difficult conversation she had with her older brother Camron Guthrie. The eldest of the three Guthrie siblings, Camron is a retired F-16 fighter pilot with experience in military intelligence.
Savannah Guthrie said she'd speculated about why her mother was abducted and ran her theory past her older brother.
Guthrie told Hotb:
"I said, 'Do you think [it was] because of me?' And he said, 'I’m sorry, sweetie, but yeah, maybe.' But I knew that. I hope not. I mean, we still don’t know. Honestly, we don’t know anything."
She explained:
"So I don't know that it's because she's my mom and somebody thought, 'That lady has money, we could make a quick buck.' I mean, that would make sense, but we don’t know."
Guthrie added:
"It's too much to bear, to think that I brought this to her bedside, that it's because of me."
Guthrie then apologized to her family, saying:
"And I just have to say: 'I’m so sorry, mommy. I am so sorry.' I’m sorry to my sister, and my brother, and my kids, and my nephew, and Tommy, my brother-in-law. I’m so sorry. If it is me, I’m so sorry."
While, according to Savannah, she asked the question and her brother did try to soften his response, the public is still upset over his honesty.





The Pima County and Tucson affiliate of Arizona Crime Stoppers, the FBI, and several other organizations and individuals have offered rewards for information about Nancy Guthrie's current location and her abduction.
The Guthrie family also announced they were offering $1 million for information to help find their mother Nancy.
TMZ has for years generated controversy and attracted derision for its story gathering tactics, but it's actually earning a little bit of goodwill after asking people to submit photos of members of Congress on vacation during Easter break as the partial government shutdown reaches historic lengths.
Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he would deploy ICE agents to U.S. airports amid a partial government shutdown that has caused exceptionally long delays at TSA lines nationwide.
ICE agents are still getting paid during the shutdown, unlike TSA agents, who are currently working unpaid and struggling amid the affordability crisis. News outlets have confirmed ICE agents have been deployed in airports that serve Democratic strongholds, particularly John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia Airports (New York), O'Hare International Airport (Chicago), and others.
Delays around the country have continued soaring and wait times are expected to spike as more TSA employees call out; more than 500 TSA agents have left their positions since DHS funding lapsed and their payments were paused. Trump directed that TSA workers be paid late last week and the Department of Homeland Security has begun issuing direct deposits.
However, the DHS shutdown is now the longest in history at 45 days and it will stretch on without an agreement between the House and the Senate as lawmakers prepare to leave Washington for Easter break; neither chamber is set to return to Washington until the week of April 13.
Now TMZ has decided that shaming legislators might be a good idea to see some progress in actually ending the shutdown, posting the following announcement:
"We want to talk to anybody in our audience right now, that if anybody goes to Disney World with their family for spring break or goes anywhere on vacation and you see any of the 535 members of Congress, take a picture and send it to us at TMZ."
"We will post that picture on our website, on our social media, and we will put it on our television shows. We want to show what they are doing at your expense and we want everybody to hear that and we are waiting for those pictures."
You can see the video announcement below.
Another announcement on TMZ's website reads:
"As TSA officers are selling their blood to keep a roof over their heads, members of Congress are packing their bags for a 2-week vacation, and WE WANT THE PICS!"
People are all for it despite a general love/hate relationship with the outlet.
We can't wait until someone photographs Ted Cruz on yet another trip to Cancún.