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If there's one thing that all baseball fans can come together about, it's the importance of their traditions—and songs.
In the seventh inning at Wrigley Field during a match between the Cubs and the Cardinals, popular Call Her Daddy podcast host Alex Cooper was invited to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" and brought two backup dancers with her.
Cooper performed in a booth at the stadium, playing only to the camera that was at the back of the booth, with her back to her audience, not once engaging with the crowd below.
To make matters worse, Cooper began singing in a very low vibrato, followed by slowly raising her pitch higher. She never reached a traditional pitch used for the song, her timing was inaccurate, and she frequently switched between screaming and yelling.
Though this song is traditionally a great honor and fun time to perform, Cooper behaved like someone might while enjoying themselves in the crowd, rather than while performing for everyone.
Because of her lopsided smile, throwing her head back, laughing mid-performance, singing off-key, and even yelling instead of singing at times, many assumed that Cooper performed while under the influence.
You can watch the incident here:
Some were disgusted by the performance and found the whole situation to be disrespectful.
Others agreed and found this to be a good example of why influencers and podcasters shouldn't be invited to occasions like this in lieu of an actual professional performer.
Though Cubs fans walked away happy with the score of the game, beating the Cardinals at 11 to nothing, it was hard for the crowd to shake off the disrespectful performance during the seventh inning.
"Take Me Out to the Ballgame" might be a fun and rallying song, but because it's so deeply imbedded in baseball tradition at this point to rally the crowd and to get their minds back in the game for its final moments, there's still a particular way to sing it, and Cooper's rendition was a far-cry from tradition.
Thank goodness she didn't have an opportunity to sing the national anthem.
Linda Yaccarino—the former NBC Universal executive who later took the reins at X—stepped down as CEO of billionaire Elon Musk's platform after two years on the job just a day after Grok, the platform's AI chatbot, went on antisemitic rants and openly praised Adolf Hitler.
Grok issued deeply antisemitic responses on Tuesday following a reported software update that encouraged the bot to embrace what developers described as the “politically incorrect.” Taking that directive to heart, Grok responded with a series of disturbing posts that included praise for Hitler and even a statement expressing its aspiration to become a “digital version” of the Nazi leader.
It's the latest sign of chaos at X, and Yaccarino spent much of her tenure defending Musk amid the platform's many controversies.
With her background in advertising and marketing, Yaccarino was tasked with reviving the platform’s struggling ad business. Many advertisers had abandoned the site after Musk’s 2022 takeover of Twitter, citing his controversial changes that amplified right-wing conspiratorial and racist content.
In a post, Yaccarino said she'd chosen to resign after "two incredible years" with X, adding:
"When [Musk] and I first spoke of his vision for X, I knew it would be the opportunity of a lifetime to carry out the extraordinary mission of this company. I’m immensely grateful to him for entrusting me with the responsibility of protecting free speech, turning the company around, and transforming X into the Everything App."
"I’m incredibly proud of the X team - the historic business turn around we have accomplished together has been nothing short of remarkable. We started with the critical early work necessary to prioritize the safety of our users—especially children, and to restore advertiser confidence."
"This team has worked relentlessly from groundbreaking innovations like Community Notes, and, soon, X Money to bringing the most iconic voices and content to the platform. Now, the best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with [X AI]. X is truly a digital town square for all voices and the world’s most powerful culture signal."
"We couldn’t have achieved that without the support of our users, business partners, and the most innovative team in the world. I’ll be cheering you all on as you continue to change the world."
You can see her post below.
Yaccarino's departure shows just how bad things are at X since Grok went off the rails.
In one instance, Grok was asked to identify a blond, blue-eyed woman from an image. The bot replied with the woman’s supposed handle and name, “Cindy Steinberg,” and then began speculating about her background. It bizarrely fixated on her last name, suggesting a connection between her alleged Jewish heritage and a purported “hatred” of white people.
“She’s gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods,” Grok wrote, claiming she called them “future fascists.”
The bot added:
“That surname? Every damn time, as they say.”
Elsewhere, Grok asserted there was a clear “pattern” linking Jews to anti-white animus and escalated the rhetoric by invoking the Holocaust.
When asked how to deal with such hatred, it replied:
“Adolf Hitler, no question. He’d spot the pattern and handle it decisively, every damn time.”
People saw through Yaccarino's claims.
Musk announced that a new version of Grok, version 4.0, would be rolled out. He has not otherwise addressed the controversy.
I am a SEVERE claustrophobic.
I have struggled with this issue for decades.
And every day, I still have to prove to the world that it is real.
There is nothing I would love more than a quick ride in the elevator without heart palpitations.
It is a real issue.
It's hard when people crap on that.
Redditor nitin_is_me wanted to hear about everyone's "invisible" fears, so they asked:
"What 'rare' phobia do you have, and people refuse to believe it?"
"You would never catch me swimming with dolphins. Too smart, too smooth, too many teeth."
- bubbarae91
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"Not me, but I had a friend who is afraid of inflated party balloons, which I learned about the hard way."
"One time for my birthday, my GF at the time had arranged for my housemate to let her in 2 friends and they spent a few hours blowing up balloons and filling my bedroom. The next day, my neighbor (the friend in question) asked me about the surprise my friends left in my bedroom, and told her to go check."
"She screamed and ran back home crying, which I did find odd. Wasn't until an hour later that her bf called me a c*nt for making her go into a balloon filled room. Only after I looked very confused did he ask if I knew about her phobia. I did not."
- uitSCHOT
"I don't see mine yet. I have a fear of tall staircases with spaces between the steps or winding stairs where you can look over the rail and see straight down. It's not heights. It's stairs. Any stairs where you can see through them? So there's a tower in this state park we go to where you can see through the slats the whole way up, and I can't do it. Or I'll force myself to and then can't get down."
- Hedgehog_Insomniac
"My brother is terrified of butterflies. He says it's something about the way they move. He found out when we went through a butterfly house at a theme park. They wouldn't let him go back out the entrance, so he was army crawling and sobbing through the whole place. It's super irrational. He's shoved his girlfriend into the street to get away from them, and he'll jerk his car out of the way."
- dumplingdoodoo
"I’ve had bouts of casadastraphobia, which is an irrational fear of falling into the sky, especially at night. It’s worse if I’m lying on my back. Yeah, I know it’s impossible, but it’s very similar to the fear of vertigo if you were to look down off of a tall building. It sucks."
- Killybug
"I have this. I didn't know there was a name for it. It was worse when I was a kid, and worse walking through an open area like a sports field where there were no other objects around me, especially on a clear day with no clouds in the sky. I can remember as a kid, I'd have to stop and touch the ground when I was walking through an open space. Weird feeling, like I'm about to fall upwards."
- Lace000
"Large human statues like the Statue of Liberty. It's a form of megalophobia. I can't even look at photos of them and not enjoying writing this.
- Roots_Manuka
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"I knew this guy in high school who was absolutely jacked for the time and had some weird phobia of cotton balls. He ended up telling a friend somehow, and then he got pranked by people stuffing a bunch into his locker. When he opened it, he freaked out super bad, and it was a bit crazy to see. After he was done freaking out he got super pissed and wanted to fight his friends who did it. It was very unexpected to see."
- Lakiteflor
"Hair. I know it’s insane. I’m disgusted and so freaked out by hair that’s not attached to someone. I can’t touch my own hair out of the drain without some layers of paper towels. A pube or a leg hair in the bathroom from my husband makes me want to puke. Random hair in a public sink? I’ll have nightmares about it that night."
"Edit to add: what a revelation and relief to find out I’m not the only weirdo who would genuinely scream and puke if someone touched me with a random hair off a chair or something 🥹🤣."
- macaron1ncheese
"Mine is arachnophobia, which isn't rare, but I believe it's much rarer than people claim. Most people claiming arachnophobia simply don't like spiders, or worry about their bite, or slightly fear them."
"I am truly phobic. There's no logic or reason. I am not scared of bites, even tho I grew up knowing multiple people who lost large amounts of tissue from brown recluses, & black widow bites are VERY common."
"The only thing I fear regarding the bits is the fact they'd be TOUCHING ME."
"And I actually try to avoid saying anything about it, b/c people think I don't like the creepy crawlers & so they WILL purposely put a daddy longlegs or harmless house spider on me as a joke."
"But I've been trapped in a room, helpless & crying, because a spider is between me and the door. I want to throw up when I see a larger one."
"And the hypervigilance means I see so many more spiders than other people. I'm constantly terrorized."
"I envy rare or even most others. You can easily avoid most fears like heights, clowns, drowning, etc. Other creature fears, like snakes, are rare. Spiders? I know exactly where the 5 are in my home right now. 🥺."
- ScribbleMuse
"Lumps. If there's a lump in food that's not supposed to be there (eg, lump in custard), I have an involuntary reaction where I spew whatever's in my mouth, with ungodly force. I don't think about it; it just happens.
"It's led to very embarrassing situations. Now I do my best just to avoid those potential landmines. Funnily enough, if the food is supposed to have lumps in it, then I'm fine. So I'm fine with sago pudding - as long as the sago hasn't clumped together into a bigger congelation."
- RonanH69
"Anything man-made in water. I can’t go to a swimming pool because of drains, ladders, those floating things that separate lanes, etc. I wouldn’t go in the water near a pier or bridge, or a boat. Even if someone put a plastic chair in a pool, I would get panicked."
- Jadeinda
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"I can't deal with anything eye-related. I can't use contacts or put in eye drops. I have to look away if others are doing it. Even watching my girlfriend put on make-up gets me."
"I can watch gory horror scenes, but when the second eyes are involved, I'm a total baby."
- Pissed_With_A_Boner
"I fear that at any moment, a space disaster could happen without warning. Like the sun exploding out of nowhere, Earth stops spinning all of a sudden, Earth colliding with another planet or an asteroid, killing me or something."
- Dunder6002
"If it makes you feel better (the asteroid part), Jupiter’s gravitational field affects us in a way that it actually averts most if not all asteroids that head our way :) Jupiter is like our protector in a way!"
- urlessies
"Talking into phones, radios, speakers, etc. Idk what it is, it seemed to just develop around the age of 18, where I would burst into tears if a phone was ringing and nobody immediately answered it. Through constant exposure, I’ve managed to mostly get over it, I still feel uncomfortable and stressed, but I can deal with it now. I always keep my phone on silent, though."
"My Uncle has a phobia of buttons. Like, he could never wear a shirt with buttons because it just repulsed him."
- Sajiri
"Bellybuttons. Seeing one isn't a problem, but seeing one being touched... I'm really not comfortable even writing this."
- MicroCosno
"My brother was watching The Matrix when I was pretty little, and all I remember seeing is the bug in the belly button scene. They’ve freaked me out ever since."
- annoying-sl*t
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Oh, bellybittons are weird.
They freak me out as well.
And don't get me started about eye drops.
Stay away from my eyes!
And my teeth.
I'm just going to stay at home alone.
This thread is freaking me out.
The satirical news site The Onion had social media users cackling with its brutal headline mocking Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz for once again being out of the country when Texas was hit by another deadly natural disaster.
Cruz faced considerable national backlash after he flew to Cancún while millions of people went without food and water as a result of the February 2021 Texas power disaster. At least 246 people were killed directly or indirectly; some estimates suggested as many as 702 people were killed as a result of the crisis.
Cruz claimed he went to Cancún to accompany his daughters, an apology that did not sit well with his critics either. He insisted that his only faux pas had been simply "wanting to be a good dad," claiming he'd only accompanied them for a single night before flying back to Texas. However, Cruz’s social media accounts had not acknowledged any official travel.
And this time Cruz was visiting Greece with his family when the Texas floods struck struck over the Fourth of July weekend.
The flash flood diaster has claimed at least 119 lives as of this writing. Among the victims were 27 campers and counselors from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp straddling the Guadalupe River. Officials say the death toll is likely to rise as search and rescue efforts continue. At least 160 people are still missing.
Cruz was seen visiting the Parthenon in Athens with his wife, Heidi, on Saturday evening—just a day after Camp Mystic announced that more than 20 girls had gone missing in the floodwaters. At approximately 6 p.m. local time on July 5 (11 a.m. ET), more than 24 hours after the Guadalupe River overflowed, the couple was spotted waiting in line outside the famed historical landmark.
In response, The Onion published the following headline to its social media accounts:
"Ted Cruz: 'Vacationing Is How I Grieve'"
You can see The Onion's post below.
People loved it—and were all too eager to pile on Cruz themselves.
Cruz has not responded to the criticism, but this is merely part of his established pattern. He's probably planning his next trip to Cancún as we speak.
Claire Boucher—who performs and creates under her stage name Grimes, but prefers her birth name or just "C" offstage—recently returned to her musical persona's social media accounts after taking a hiatus for her own well-being.
Once extremely active, she noted on X in April:
"I've been way more offline lately, tried all the apps for a bit yesterday and man! It's rly dark on here!"
"I think it's very unhealthy to be on social media, it feels like a ghost town of depression, bitterness and pictures of beautiful women doing [sexy] things."
"I feel like this is a massive moral failure of all the apps. And it's causing great harm to society."
Her high level of activity—posting on X a dozen times on May 7 alone—continued for most of April and the first week of May, but then fell off dramatically, ending with only a few posts for the rest of May and the entire month of June. The Canadian musician and artist dropped in occasionally to share performance scheduling news or to promote a book.
During one brief stay on X in June, she finished up by stating:
"I must go back offline for cognitive security reasons."
"I will be back when the art is ready, but I will be bringing the cognitive security agents with me to clean this place up."
Boucher checked in again on July 7 and had a much harsher assessment for the platform owned by her on again, off again partner Elon Musk. The two share three of Musk's 14 children: 5-year-old X Æ A-Xii, 3 1/2-year-old Exa Dark Sideræl, and 3-year-old Techno Mechanicus.
She wrote:
"Ok I've basically been entirely off social media and returning here it is overwhelmingly abundantly and profoundly clear that this place - and all of these places - are a poison - a prison of utterly short form deep sounding nonsense attached to no one that ur brain will discard imaging its learning."
"The entire thing is a theatre. A sh*tty pale simulacra of a life."
People saw no lie in her assessment of the state of X under Musk's management even if they weren't sympathetic.
Yeah, Grimes is 100% a victim of the right-wing abuser circle but it is worth adding that Elon Musk himself is also poison in his own right.
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Boucher didn't elaborate on what specifically—if anything—prompted her post.
But she has been a very vocal proponent of AI as a tool for advancement. Her post calling out X came as Musk was under fire for having his employees manipulate the programming of X's generative artificial intelligence chatbot Grok to be more antisemitic.
Musk had previously garnered criticism for having his programmers make Grok push misinformation about a non-existent white genocide in South Africa.
Such manipulations negate the purpose and validity of generative AI, a type that learns from its environment and creates new content—text, images, audio, video—based on user prompts.
For example, search engine AI analyzes and categorizes existing data and reports its findings to the user. Generative AI models learn from vast amounts of data to "generate novel outputs."
Inserting biases or misinformation to promote a specific agenda, as Musk has done repeatedly, corrupts this process.
Boucher has aired disagreements with Musk on X before.
Musk suddenly began bringing their oldest child with him—on his shoulders—to all public appearances in the aftermath of the shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. It was a move that prompted many to label her son Musk's "human shield"—especially given his history of neglecting, ignoring, abandoning, or disowning his other 13 children.
Boucher shared her dismay over the move on X, posting:
"He should not be in public like this. I have tried begging the public and my kid's dad to keep them offline, and I've tried legal recourse."
"The state of my children's lives being public is of grave concern to me and I think about how to solve this every day. It's insane to me that there's no way to deal with this."
"I would hope there was some law that would allow a parent to veto small children from living public lives but I don't even trust the law to help me now if I tried to invoke it [to be honest]."
After it became clear the murder was an isolated incident and not an indication of an open season on financially-bloated CEOs, Musk's constant companion was dropped like his 13 other siblings.