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Greg Sullivan
August 05, 2025

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“The ‘mom stare’ is universal in every species."

Want definitive proof that all living creatures share some inexplicable connection? Look no further than nature itself.

In this case, by “nature” we mean viral footage of a baby hippo who refused to leave his pool playtime…until it was met with the “mom stare” we all know and fear.

In an adorable clip shared by Kansas’ Tanganyika Wildlife Park, we see zookeepers try—and fail—to retrieve a five-week-old pygmy hippopotamus calf named Mars from a pool. They simply couldn’t compete with Mars’ heft and slipperiness…not to mention his stubbornness.

Then Mars’ mom Posie entered the chat.

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"My niece has been telling me for months to post my work on TikTok but I don’t think this is what she meant."

We’ve all had meltdowns. Thanks to 24/7 access to camera phones, many of us have had a meltdown we thought was private end up being public entertainment. But audiobook narrator Kate Burns’ world class "crashed out" over a technology glitch stands firmly in its own category.

Burns, whose niche is narrating suspense thrillers, had been recording a chapter for Blake Pierce’s "Girl, Haunted" and accidentally kept in a nearly minute long, expletive-littered, rage-filled rant against her recording software—which had apparently been giving her quite the headache.

There’s something deeply beautiful about this 🥰

"Don't get played."

If you are a psychologically healthy person, it’s easy to fall victim to a narcissist or manipulator because you’re not assuming that other people are playing games with you. You just go along to get along. But if you’re in a relationship with a manipulator, they could be playing a long game that slowly unfolds until the moment you realize that you are in an unhealthy relationship. Hopefully, that time comes sooner rather than later. Some people have relationships that last for decades before they realize they have been manipulated.

A popular TikTok user named @Mewmewsha, who refers to herself as "Older Sister," is going viral for a video where she makes it easy to understand the tactics that a manipulator or narcissist may use to control you. She presents it in an easy-to-comprehend anagram—CREEP—which outlines the stages of manipulation, and she also shares her methods for countering each stage. CREEP stands for charm, rage, envy, entitlement, and pity.

Shoulder pads and cigarette smoke.

Baby Boomers (those born from 1946 to 1964) and Generations Jones (those born specifically from 1954 to 1964) are two generations who remember what it was really like to live through the 1970s and 1980s. Nostalgia can put a rose-colored tint on the times. And for a lot of people, living through these two decades weren't all sunshine and rainbows.

In an online forum of people born after 1980, member Mundane_Bad_2437 posed the question: "For those who didn't like the 70s or 80s, why?" They continued, "I know that most people look back at the 70s and 80s as the good old days. But for anyone who actually lived during those decades and didn’t enjoy them, I’m really curious, why? What was it about that time that didn’t sit right with you? Just wondering what it was really like from the other side."

And Boomers, Gen Jonesers (and some Gen Xers) chimed in with their honest thoughts about some of the negatives about living through the two decades.