Many Such Takes: Lady with Rock, Fit Mom, Started Christianity and More

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Now, onto the TAKES.

Like it the Fuck Now

I am not familiar with what frat culture is like today (or really what frat culture has ever been like) but I didn’t think it included aggressive demands to like a text message or do perform cunnilingus. Alas, times have changed:

This tweet wasn’t a controversy, just some good old fashioned Twitter fun. Some of the best reactions:

The tweet went so viral that a bunch of OnlyFans/sex work (bot?) accounts jumped on the whole box eating thing:

Lady with a Rock

As we are all increasingly bombarded with uncanny short-form AI slop, one video in particular has gone viral, of a heavyset woman destroying a glass bridge with a large boulder while everyone falls to their death, except for a little girl who is rescued in the water by a golden retriever. As believable as some AI videos are, this one definitely falls into the “what the fuck did I just watch” category.

Anyway, it turns out there are a bunch of videos exactly like this, mostly being posted to Facebook for what I assume is engagement monetization after realizing this particular video formula works very well. A while ago I wrote about the Facebook groups full of fake people talking to each other, which may explain the popularity of these videos.

In layers upon layers, the first AI actress Tilly Norwood has met her untimely demise:

And some other great responses:

Fit Mom

Classic CHH chum this week. A mom/fitness account posted a mirror selfie with the context that she had four babies in four years with the stated intention of dispelling the myth that having kids destroys you forever:

I saw this picture at least fifty times on my feed (and it was actually a low-phone day, although perhaps this says more about me than I’d like it to.) Almost every single time, the quote tweet was something like, “Stop giving this woman a hard time! So yeah, she’s fit and proud of it. She SHOULD be proud! Why is everyone hating on her?”

What was missing from my feed? People being mad about it. In fact, after seeing all these QTs my first thought was that I needed to write a whole article on this topic particularly, and about how “fitness culture” is about an anti-defeatist mindset which might rub some people the wrong way but actually has a generally positive message. Then I saw this tweet because I was tagged…

And I was like, Shit, yeah, maybe that’s what’s happening! It reminds me a little of how I frequently see the term “You go girl” used as an example of some stupid motto that “every” feminist is saying, even though I haven’t heard anyone say that since the Spice Girls in 1998. Maybe I had truly stumbled upon a REAL “nobody is saying that” where it’s not just covering for all the people saying that.

But then, I clicked into the actual tweet, and I regret to inform you that people were saying that:

I guess it’s one of those things where the Internet functions as an ink blot test for us. We see the takes we find the most annoying and don’t see the ones we agree with. Maybe the algorithm is doing it, maybe it’s our brains. But this was one of those dramas where I found….almost every take a little bit annoying?

If you want my take (do you?) it’s that, aside from any possibly milkshake duck content you have on the original fit mom (a short scroll of her tweet shows she is a conservative, which isn’t really a “this you?” in 2025, but some people are using it as ammunition) her post was completely fine, but that I also don’t think being a fit mom is something that many people take issue with?

My mom always told me that if she attended a baby shower, before she had kids she would wear something body-obscuring to not make the pregnant woman feel bad. After she had kids, she would wear something more form-fitting to give the pregnant woman hope. I guess my mindset is kinda like this. I wouldn’t say it’s super easy to get into shape after kids, nor would I say it’s impossible. But I don’t think that the woman in the original photo is such a wild outlier that it’s irresponsible to share the image, and I think defeatist and doom-and-gloom messaging around pregnancy and motherhood is very unhelpful. I actually wrote about that recently, so you can find that article below:

Pregnancy is Body Horror and I Love Horror Films

Started Christianity

Faith can be a beautiful thing, and I support everyone in their spiritual journey. Including this guy, who seems to think Christianity is a type of Huberman biohacking regimen:

Clearly he’s not THAT perfect of a Christian if he’s started Christianity but has yet to start nofap (for those uninitiated, this is the practice of abstaining from masturbation, mostly to boost testosterone levels and vanquish porn addiction.)

Anyway, I’m inclined to think the specificity around the continuous spanking of the monkey for the next two weeks means the entire post was a joke or an attempt to monetize more Elon Bucks. Anyway, I wish him well and hope he manages to stop jorkin his peanits.

Funny Tweets/Other Happenings

You Look Better When You Try Hard