What’s Trending: Tuesday, October 5th, 2021
#Adele
o We think it’s pretty safe to say that Adele is back!
o If you missed it last week, billboards with the number 30 started popping up all over Los Angeles.
o That would make sense that she would name her new album 30 since it follows her pattern of naming albums after her age.
o She also split from her husband at the age of 30.
o And yesterday, Adele changed her website to include a sign up link for fans to be notified of upcoming news.
o She also changed her Instagram and Twitter profile photos to match the background on the billboards.
o And speculation is that Taylor Swift moved her album release next month so it didn’t go up against Adele’s new album.
#JustinBieber
o He just performed in Vegas at Shaq’s The Event over the weekend!
o And maybe he was inspired but some of the dispensaries in town because Bieber is entering the marijuana market with prerolled joints that he’s calling “Peaches.”
o The seven-joint packs are selling for $32 at locations here in Nevada and also in California.
o He is working with the LA-based company, Palms and he says, “I’m a fan of Palms and what they are doing by making cannabis approachable and helping to destigmatize it –- especially for the many people who find it helpful for their mental health.”
#Facebook #Instagram
o The social networks were down for several hours yesterday, along with WhatsApp.
o What caused the outage? The CTO of Facebook said, “We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible.”
o Experts say it appeared that Facebook withdrew “authoritative DNS routes” that let the rest of the internet communicate with its properties.”
o And computer scientists speculated that a bug introduced by a configuration change in Facebook’s routing management system could be to blame.
#Dalgona
o Thanks to the “Squid Game” craze, the little candy discs called dalgona are flying off shelves.
o If you don’t watch, there's an episode where the contestants have to cut shapes out of these little candy discs called dalgona, which is really hard because they're so brittle.
o The shapes are a triangle, circle, star, and umbrella.
o If you watch the show, you know that contestants who can't complete a task DIE.
o A candy maker in Seoul named An Yong-hui made those candies . . . and now, thanks to the show, he can't keep up with the demand.
o According to one report, he can barely go home anymore because people are lined up outside his shop when it opens. And he's selling more than 500 of them a day, when he used to sell less than 200.