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In a viral video with over 1.5 million views as of Friday, TikTok user Taylor Watson (@taylormakesvideos) asked her followers for legal advice after her boss asked her to come in during her accepted time off. She shared the thread of text messages between her and her boss, Karen. 

TikToker Evelyn Brown (@brownevelyn1992) giddily announced she just discovered that 7-Eleven offers delivery of whole pizza pies of the pizza slices it sells at many of its locations. These slices are usually found under a heating lamp right next to hot rollers lined with taquitos, hot dogs, and tubes of ground beef.

A TikToker claims that the Chick-fil-A app recently transferred $50 from her bank account to the app, and other customers say the same thing has happened to them.

In the past few years and amid the coronavirus pandemic, fast-food workers have had to deal with increased health risk and potential verbal and physical abuse at the hands of customers. 

A TikTok creator has shared a tale of being detained by employees at a Seattle-area Coach store for stealing a wallet that the creator claims to have purchased a week prior. The story has since blossomed into a harrowing, multiple-video saga of bad customer service.

Hello fellow citizens of the internet! Andrew here. Welcome to today's edition of web_crawlr. 

After disrupting the world of illustrators, artificial intelligence is causing controversy with a new type of machine-generated content: AI photography.

Staying past closing time may not be a big deal to customers, but for those in the service industry it can present a particular nuisance as one bartender showed in a recent TikTok video. 

When you're buying fast food from a well-established franchise, it'd be pretty jarring to see a menu item from another chain in your bag.

A woman on TikTok claimed she was searched inappropriately and was hurt during a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) pat down at Denver International Airport. The video has drawn over 2 million views and thousands of comments' worth of discussion.

Chipotle has been at the center of many viral social media scandals. A number of customers have called out the chain for charging what they believe are exorbitant prices for products the chain used to offer for less money. This has caused some former Chipotle fans to encourage patrons to go to competing chains, like Qdoba, for their food instead.

Over the holidays, two "prank" trends dominated TikTok: Telling family members a celebrity died, and playing them an explicit Kohl's commercial. The former ended after Angela Bassett and Courtney B. Vance's son did an ill-advised TikTok about Michael B. Jordan passing away, but the fake Kohl's ad (and others) have flourished.

M3GAN is far from the first killer doll movie to capture our attention, but it might be the funniest. It’s campy and self-aware from the very first scene, and you get the impression that the filmmakers are in on the joke. M3GAN is a horror flick that’s a bit light on actual horrors, but what it lacks in scares, it makes up for it by fully leaning into the absurdity and creepiness of its own premise. 

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A worker went viral on TikTok for recording her manager's inappropriate reaction to a spill on her skirt.

A woman who ordered a sandwich from Wawa via DoorDash was surprised to find that her sub was completely empty when she went to eat it. 

A Panera customer went viral on TikTok after recording a robot drive-thru attendant taking his order.

In a viral video posted on Dec. 11, TikTok user Vontez (@newtecnogod) claimed that he caught  DoorDash order thieves "red-handed" after he delivered food to the wrong address.

In a viral video posted on Dec. 23, TikTok user Turboo Lele (@leletoofunny22) gave a behind-the-scenes look at the Wendy’s where she works. 

A TikToker has sparked debate on the platform after calling attention to an alleged conspiracy regarding a chemical in Taco Bell's food.