For all of the AI slop and corporate influence on the web, weird and fun and unique things still exist. The Tiny Awards attempt to capture this.
Category: Pop Culture
Popular culture, culture that seems to spread beyond more than three people
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All the theories about why the stock market keeps going up
As the stock market soars ever higher, the theories of why it rises have suffered the opposite fate. One by one, every favored explanation of what could be going on has been undermined by world events. The uncomfortable fact about the historic stock-market run is that no one really knows why it’s happening—or what could bring it to an end.
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Denmark will stop delivering letters
At the end of 2025, Denmark will stop delivering mail letters and functioning fully on packages. 100 million letters are still flowing through the system today, but nowhere near the peak of 1.8 billion nearly 25 years ago. It sounds like third-party companies will fill the gap, but at what cost?
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Storyterra
Storyterra maps where movies or TV shows take place.
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Trump Action Tracker
Informative and depressing: the Trump Action Tracker. Tracks all the actions and orders taken and what they affect.
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Aura farming
According to the website Know Your Meme, the expression was popularized in 2024 largely in reference to anime characters and various celebrities. It generally refers to someone who does something repetitive to look cool and build, as Gen Alpha would say, aura.
The phrase, aura farming, has risen in pop culture because of an Indonesian boat racer.
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Walk off win via catcher in interference
Bases loaded. Bottom of the 10th. Walk off win through catcher interference, which hasn’t happened since 1971.
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Tarantulas in cake boxes
Tarantulas are mostly harmless, but in Germany, a nightmare feel scenario appeared: approximately 1500 tarantulas being smuggled in cake boxes.
Customs officials said on Monday they had found the shipment at Cologne Bonn airport in a package that had arrived from Vietnam. A Cologne customs office spokesperson, Jens Ahland, said they had been tipped off by a “noticeable smell” that did not resemble the expected aroma of the 7kg (about 15lb) of the confectionery treats.
“My colleagues at the airport are regularly surprised by the contents of prohibited packages from all over the world, but the fact that they found around 1,500 small plastic containers containing young tarantulas in this package left even the most experienced among them speechless,” Ahland said in a statement.
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T-Rex Racing
Lyndsey Wasson went to the Emerald Downs Racetrack in Auburn Washington to capture the T-Rex Racing Championship.
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Home run derby robbery
This will definitely pop up in highlight reels forever.