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By Comic Sands EditorialSep 02, 2019
Let's be real: You'll never get what you want if you don't shoot your shot.
That was what TikToker Romeo Bingham decided when she was bored and suddenly came up with the idea for a new jingle for Dr. Pepper.
In a text overlay, she wrote:
"I had to act on this before someone got sent this in a dream and steal it from me, so I impulsively posted this."
In the video, she said:
"I have a new theme song for Dr. Pepper, and it goes like this:"
"Dr. Pepper, baby... It's good and nice! Do do do!"
You can watch the video here:
@romeosshow @Dr Pepper please get back to me with a proposition we can make thousands together. #drpepper #soda #beverage
Lots of fellow TikTokers complimented Bingham on the jingle.





Some other brands even chimed in, wishing for a jingle of their own.





Because of all of the attention, fellow TikToker @pinotbb suggested that Bingham go back through her comments section and start creating jingles for the companies that asked for one.
@romeosshow Replying to @pinotbb full of jingles and theme songs! email me if interested! #jingle #themesong #drpepper #song #romeosshow
Bingham took that challenge seriously and proceeded to produce catchy jingles for a wide range of companies, from fellow food companies to car companies and more.
She has since come up with catchy jingles for Hyundai, VitaCoco, and the Monopoly Game.
@romeosshow Replying to @Hyundai USA doing this because my old @Hyundai USA served me well. 🫡 #hyundai #cars #auto #jingle
The coolest part of the story, though, was that less than a month later, Dr. Pepper ran a new commercial that featured Bingham's jingle suggestion on repeat throughout.
Printed in large, bold letters, the lyrics are easily readable throughout the commercial while various flavors of Dr. Pepper are displayed.
Even the "do do do" part of the jingle is included in the commercial, and both times it's heard, the Dr. Pepper cans visibly shake.
You can watch the new commercial here:
- YouTube www.youtube.com
The news spread across social media, particularly X, and X users were happy for Bingham's success.
Jingles definitely seem to be making a comeback since 2020, and with the surge of AI, it's awesome to see something created and implemented by a human being.
Most importantly, this is such a great example of dreams actually coming true if you put yourself out there.
In 1987, audiences had the time of their lives when Dirty Dancing hit theaters. Nearly 40 years later, that story is officially stepping back onto the dance floor.
Lionsgate announced Tuesday, January 27, that Jennifer Grey will reprise her role as Frances “Baby” Houseman in an upcoming Dirty Dancing sequel. The project will be produced by The Hunger Games and Crazy Rich Asians producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, with filming expected to begin later this year.
The sequel is being written by Dying for Sex screenwriter Kim Rosenstock, who co-created the Michelle Williams-led Hulu series and served as an executive producer on Love Story: John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Carolyn Bessette.
Grey, now 65, starred opposite the late and great Patrick Swayze in the 1987 original, a film that went on to define a generation and cement itself as a pop culture touchstone. In a press release announcing her return, Grey addressed the weight—and meaning—of stepping back into Baby’s shoes.
Grey reflected on what the role has meant to her and generations of fans:
“The role of Baby has held a very deep and meaningful place in my heart, as it has in the hearts of so many fans over the years.”
Grey is also serving as an executive producer on the sequel. While talk of a continuation has circulated for years, the project was first confirmed to be in development in 2020. In her statement, Grey acknowledged why it took time to reach this moment.
Grey explained the care behind revisiting such a beloved film:
“I’ve long wondered where we might find Baby years later and what her life might be like, but it’s taken time to assemble the kind of people that I felt could be entrusted to build on the legacy of the original film … and I’m excited to say that it looks like the wait will soon be over.”
She also marked the announcement by sharing a promotional post on social media:
For producer Nina Jacobson, the sequel isn’t as much about nostalgia as it is about why the film still resonates decades later.
She described what gives Dirty Dancing its staying power:
“Dirty Dancing is that rare film that is as emotional, exhilarating and rebellious today as it was the year it was released.”
Jacobson wants to honor what made the story connect so deeply in the first place. That sense of responsibility, she noted, is what makes stepping back into the world of Dirty Dancing both meaningful and daunting.
Jacobson elaborated about the return to Kellerman’s Mountain House:
“To be able to work with Jennifer Grey and Lionsgate on the sequel is a genuine joy for Brad and me. We feel so fortunate to have been invited back to Kellerman’s for one more dance.”
While anticipation for the sequel is high, Grey has been clear about one boundary: it will not attempt to recreate the chemistry she shared with Patrick Swayze, who died in 2009 at age 57 after a 20-month battle with Stage IV pancreatic cancer.
In an interview with People, Grey addressed that reality directly:
“All I can say is there is no replacing anyone who’s passed—you never try to repeat anything that’s magic like that. You just go for something different.”
Fans had mixed reactions to the announcement, with some questioning whether Dirty Dancing needs a sequel and others excited to see Jennifer Grey return as Baby.
You can view the comments and fan casting choices below:
Still, Grey has often looked back on their collaboration with affection, especially the choreography that made the film iconic, including the lift in the final scene.
Grey recalled the trust she built with Swayze while filming:
“Patrick is the only one who really anyone should try it with, because he was just such a good ballet dancer. He was so used to lifting women and so strong. By the end of the movie, I trusted him so much.”
The sequel marks her first return to the role since the late 1980s. The original Dirty Dancing was directed by Emile Ardolino. While Jonathan Levine was previously attached to direct the sequel, he will now serve as an executive producer, and a director has not yet been announced.
The film was a box office success, earning over $214 million worldwide—or $608 million today when adjusted for inflation. It also won the Academy Award for best original song for “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” and later expanded into a franchise that included the 2004 prequel Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, a stage musical, and a 2017 television remake that aired on ABC.
Swayze also briefly reprised his role as Johnny Castle in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, which starred Diego Luna and Romola Garai.
With filming expected to begin later this year, fans will soon discover who Baby is decades after that last dance became legendary.
The new owners of U.S. TikTok—American investors to satisfy safety concerns about the app created by the Chinese technology company ByteDance—have an explanation for ongoing problems experienced by users beginning Sunday morning.
For context, MAGA Republican President Donald Trump infamously ranted about the app and vowed to permanently ban it from the United States during his first term in office.
After many U.S. users reported an inability to upload new videos to the platform or to new videos from other users, including those from users outside the U.S., people accused the platform of censorship.
Others pointed to issues with the algorithm that determines what content they see. During initial stages of use of most social media, users see random content until an algorithm "learns" their preferences based on their reactions and engagement, then serves up that content.
Some U.S. TikTok users claimed their algorithm was "reset" to resemble a new user's blank slate. Others stated a new algorithm that bolstered pro-Trump, pro-MAGA, or pro-right wing content.
In response, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC posted Monday on X:
"Since yesterday we’ve been working to restore our services following a power outage at a U.S. data center impacting TikTok and other apps we operate. We're working with our data center partner to stabilize our service. We're sorry for this disruption and hope to resolve it soon."
Later in the day they posted an image of their official statement captioned:
"An update on our work to restore and stabilize TikTok."
The statement read:
"We're continuing to resolve a major infrastructure issue triggered by a power outage at one of our U.S. data center partner sites. While the network has been recovered, the outage caused a cascading systems failure that we've been working to resolve together with our data center partner."
"What this means for your Tik Tok experience:"
"• You may notice multiple bugs, slower load times, or timed-out requests, including when posting new content."
"• Creators may temporarily see '0' views or likes on videos, and your earnings may look like they're missing. This is a display error caused by server timeouts; your actual data and engagement are safe."
"Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to bring TikTok back to full capacity as soon as we can."
On Tuesday, the account added:
"We've made significant progress in recovering our U.S. infrastructure with our U.S. data center partner. However, the U.S. user experience may still have some technical issues, including when posting new content. We're committed to bringing TikTok back to its full capacity as soon as possible. We'll continue to provide updates. Thanks for your patience."
The U.S. TikTok account's posts don't allow comments from the public, so users of the platform have taken their responses elsewhere, like the technology subReddit.
Posts from the technology
community on Reddit
Users weren't buying what the new owners were selling.







Redditors called TikTok's power outage explanation a lie to cover up pro-Trump censorship and shadow banning.








TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is helmed by Oracle and a group of investors friendly to the Trump administration. The group took over TikTok in the United States last week, which raised concerns about censorship and privacy.
The group promised to route U.S. TikTok user data through Oracle-owned data centers and launch a new version of TikTok’s algorithm specific to U.S. user activity.
TikTok was accused of becoming another social media platform, like Elon Musk's X, that promotes the White supremacist and Christian nationalist agenda of the Trump administration while spying on users to identify and silence critics.
Right-wing talk show host Megyn Kelly was slammed after she shared her reasons for not feeling "sorry" for ICU nurse Alex Pretti, who was fatally shot by ICE agents over the weekend.
Calls for an investigation have intensified from across the political spectrum after analysis of multiple videos showed ICE officers removing a handgun from Pretti—a weapon that authorities said Pretti was permitted to carry but was not handling at the time—before fatally shooting him.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and other officials claimed Pretti had brandished a weapon and that agents fired “defensive shots,” assertions that have been contradicted by video evidence showing Pretti holding a phone and not brandishing a gun.
The Trump administration's critics have since called out the hypocrisy of officials who've previously praised armed right-wing protesters but are now attacking Pretti, a legal gun owner with a valid Minnesota concealed-carry permit.
Kelly claimed that ongoing protests in Minneapolis are the brainchild of "organized agitators who train to disrupt and in some cases, hurt law enforcement," insisting that demonstrators are “looking for confrontations.”
She added:
“You don’t resist arrest. You don’t antagonize cops in the middle of the street in a law enforcement operation, and then, when they’ve got hands on you, trying to place you under arrest, you submit. That’s it. Submit."
Then she doubled down—explaining very clearly why she feels no sympathy for Pretti's violent death at the hands of ICE agents:
“I know I’m supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don’t. I don’t. Do you know why I wasn’t shot by Border Patrol this weekend? Because I kept my ass inside and out of their operations."
"It's very simple. If I felt strongly enough about something the government was doing, that I would go out and protest, I would do it peacefully on the sidewalk without interfering via a whistle, via shouting, via my body, via any other way."
"I would make my objections known standing there without interfering because interfering is where you go south and laying hands on a police officer, trying to on a Border Patrol officer or ICE officer trying to conduct an operation is a felony and you're going to get arrested if you do anything—anything—that resembles resisting you're in serious trouble."
You can hear what Kelly said in the video below.
Many have condemned Kelly's remarks.
Kelly has made headlines multiple times over the last few weeks for statements defending the Trump administration's tactics.
She was criticized after she revealed she not only supports the Department of Defense's attacks on alleged drug-smuggling vessels in the Caribbean but wants anyone aboard these boats to "suffer," even saying that she hopes they "lose a limb and bleed out" slowly.
While she said U.S. troops "should not commit war crimes," she alleged the criticism was “only being done to retroactively justify” a video recently released by several Democratic members of Congress who are also former veterans that urged troops not to obey any unlawful orders.
Kelly admitted on air that she was "really having a difficult time ginning up sympathy for these guys who ten seconds earlier almost got taken out by the initial bomb, but because they managed to get ejected, you know, a little too soon, had to be taken out in the water."
Just days before she made these statements, Kelly generated controversy for attempting to downplay the pedophilia of the late financier, sex trafficker, and proven pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, saying he was merely "into the barely legal type."
Commenting on a release from House Oversight Committee Democrats that includes emails like one Epstein sent his associate Ghislaine Maxwell saying Trump spent time with a trafficking victim and another in which Epstein told a reporter that Trump "knew about the girls," Kelly questioned whether Epstein, whose history of pedophilia goes back decades, was actually a pedophile.
Kelly's remarks sparked outrage, particularly from those who pointed out she is defending a known pedophile and sex trafficker despite having a teenage daughter herself.

You don't really know a person until you cohabitate with them.
When you learn someone's little idiosyncrasies... it can change your whole view of them as a person.
Do they let the toilet paper flow from the bottom?
Do they have night terrors?
This is all before we even get into flatulence.
Sometimes knowledge... is terror.
Redditor atgono wanted to hear about what it's like to live with women, so they asked:
What habits of girls did you only discover after getting a girlfriend or wife?
"Monica’s closet is a real thing. What you can see is spotless, but if it’s behind a door or in a drawer, it doesn’t matter what it looks like."
- Mr_onion_fella

"How many things they wear that can’t go through the dryer—and how angry they get when you do the laundry and accidentally put these things in the dryer."
- mjdavisnh
"This is why I have a separate hamper for the clothes that can't be washed just however. My partner just throws a bunch of clothes in the machine without checking the labels and turns it on. He bought a very expensive cashmere sweater for himself that is now my very expensive cashmere sweater, because he put it through the laundry AND the dryer, and it no longer fits him. CASHMERE! IN THE WASHING MACHINE! IN A NORMAL CYCLE!"
- nibbyzor
"Crying is often a process, often not a crisis."
"What makes a lot of men generally cry (especially Gen X and prior) is really serious things. A close family member or friend, a beloved pet, or the death scene from Star Trek II. You know, the serious stuff."
"For a lot of people, though, it can be a way to process things. Many times, less serious things."
"For a while, I reacted to crying as if it were really, really serious and was hesitant to even engage, thinking of what it would take me to cry."
"Everyone's crying threshold is different. I learned not to assume what mine was matched with partners."
- shadeland
"The volume of cosmetic products that end up in the bathroom. My partner doesn't even wear makeup every day, and even when she does, it's very little. Yet somehow every time I open the bathroom cabinet, some kind of potion falls out into the sink."
- Karloss_93
"She uses them, you just can’t tell because it’s beauty products and not makeup. She probably uses them to keep her skin healthy. I rarely wear makeup and barely own any, but I have a ton of beauty products: serums, lotions, face masks, etc. When you said ‘potion,’ it was a dead giveaway."
- dontcallmebaka
"I didn’t realize how much time goes into getting ready, even on 'lazy' days. Also, the amount of emotional processing that happens internally before anything is said was eye-opening. I used to think silence meant nothing was happening, turns out a lot is happening lol. Made me way more patient once I noticed it."
- europehasnobackbone
"Period munchies are a ravenous pit that isn't exclusive to chocolate and pays no respect to complementary flavors. She will eat spicy pickles, caramel, and cool ranch doritos then crave tuna salad 30 min later."
- spacezoro
"Heading out on quick notice is now impossible. I always need to factor in the time to 'get ready'. For me, it is always a 30-second affair of putting on my shirt and trousers, and shoes."
- dronz3r
"Last week we both took a nap before meeting with friends in the afternoon. I got up an hour before we had to leave to do my makeup and choose my clothes. 15 minutes before, I realized that my husband apparently didn't set an alarm and woke him up. He still was ready before me."
- ellenitha
"That they go and hoard everything. Every bottle of something or another will have only a drop, then gets left in the bathroom forever."
- xXcocorio69Xx
"Mine has a packaging progression. There are smaller and smaller bottles and jars that hold a set of revered concoctions rivaling those of frankincense and myrrh, somehow tracked through an uncanny sixth sense rivaled only by woodland animals recovering stashed nuts during winter months. I have never spoken of this out of both respect and fear."
- mahagrande
"I was surprised by how my girlfriend reacted to me scratching her scalp with my fingers while we were cuddling. Just running my fingers through her hair while she lay on my shoulder or chest was literally enough to put her to sleep in like a minute from being totally awake.
"Honestly, I think she's part feline, she was basically purring..."
- FIR3W0RKS
"That she almost never wants a logical response when venting and opening up. She just wants to be heard and understood."
"When she opens up, I ask what she'd prefer."
- Hikesny

"My gal has this quirky little habit of trying to choke me in my sleep with her hair. She hasn't cut it in nearly 20 years, and it is a long and thick curtain of hair that she just casually throws over my face in the night."
"I would tell you all the places I've found her hair on my body, randomly. But I don't need to get banned from the sub."
"Help. Me."
- Fallenjace
"The amount of female patients coming into my office, freaking out about their dark elbows, hair loss (even though many of them have an unnoticeable amount of hair loss), and dark marks from acne or bug bites is ridiculous. Society teaches women to be ashamed of even the slightest of 'imperfections.' Women are 'supposed' to have long, luscious hair on their scalps, no hair on their bodies, and unblemished skin. Body hair, acne, and dark elbows are ridiculed. It truly is a shame."
- crazycatdermy
"75% of the laundry is various small black stretchy things that cannot be folded."
"There are apparently serious, logical reasons why each one of the 17 moisturisers has a place and purpose in the bathroom."
"Even though I can clean a bathroom, I don’t do it right."
"Girls can and are exactly as gross as boys."
- Hashtagbarkeep
"When I've been sat on the sofa with women while watching TV (this has happened with my ex wife and two separate girlfriends after we split) if they were the ones using the remote to put something on, instead of putting the remote down on the coffee table in front of them they would give me the remote, and then I'd be the one to put it down on the coffee table."
"I have no idea why, I'm not a big believer in the whole men are like this and women are like that, but it's happened with enough women at this point that it's something I've noticed as a woman thing."
- Standard-Company-194

I think we should all date but live separately.
It's all too much.
Private space is safer... and sexier.
This whole thread is giving me anxiety.