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Rated and Slated: Things We Hate and Love Online This Week

The internet’s latest arsenal of ballistic missiles, aimed right at your eyes.

By Adam Christopher Smith

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Welcome to RATED AND SLATED, the column that is terminally online so you don’t have to be.

Whenever the reply guys have me feeling bad about my “pathetic excuse of a career,” I think, “oh well, at least I’m not a political journalist.”I mean, you sacrifice your health, jeopardize your social life, and miss out on time with the family to get on the White House beat where you can enjoy such perks as inhaling Donald Trump’s recycled hamburger breath during an intercontinental flight on Air Force One. 

But the president neither respects nor understands your work and, when the credible threat of an Iranian missile being fired at the plane is detected, he’ll happily sacrifice your life, swapping flights by hiding in the catering truck like a weird, morbidly obese James Bond. 

So I think I’ll just stick to writing about dank memes and AI videos, since brainrot appears to be the only thing that the U.S. and Iran can agree on.

Yung Lean’s “Robotboy”

Yung Lean releases his cover of “Robotboy” by Robyn. https://t.co/e7kaOg1I0H— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 12, 2026

Yung Lean releases his cover of “Robotboy” by Robyn. https://t.co/e7kaOg1I0H

On this new cover of Robyn’s “Robotboy,” Jonatan somehow sounds both younger and older than ever before. Robyn says that the track is like he’s “singing this lullaby to the person he once was.” It reminds me of those little tunes we used to chant in the playground while playing childish games as a way of slowly learning about the grown-up world. Dude famously looks like the kid from the Bully video game, but somehow, through all the scraps and brawls, he’s managed to keep a hold of his innocence. When you’re listening to Yung Lean, you can tell he’s in your corner. Gang! 

MARIO 64: WAR ON TERROR

nintendo lawyers having an aneurism as we speak pic.twitter.com/TzSLIENDks— Sam Steffanina (@SamSteffanina) August 9, 2026

nintendo lawyers having an aneurism as we speak pic.twitter.com/TzSLIENDks

Gamers spent the 90s arguing about which was the superior console, Nintendo or Sega, but after the horrors of 9/11 it was Super Mario who hunted........

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