what you missed in january 2024 🗓️🐍🏈 (january 2024 pop culture recap)

it's officially been a year of our recap series and i hope you've been enjoying it! in january 2024 we saw megan thee stallion and nicki minaj feud, margot robbie get "snubbed" at the oscars, and the internet go crazy over stanley cups. what did you miss this month?
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[@saidas505]

The Yuzuru Hanyu divorce is such a sad thing, but nice that you decided to cover it. He is truly one of the greatest figure skates of all time

[@MrSpaceRaptor]

Yeah I forget people outside of figure skating fans will know about stuff like this lol. I feel terrible for Yuzuru and his partner, can't imagine having to end a marriage over fan harassment, and he doesn't even have any social media!

[@mariamatedei]

Trueee im not even a fan of the sport and i know who he is, hes one of the goats

[@Lethalport1515]

That is so upsetting and saddening that the ice-skaters relationship was so effected by others not letting them be.

[@purplezombie4940]

As a queer Taylor Swift fan, I hate the Gaylors that think Taylor is gay. Like, could she be on the queer spectrum? Sure. It's possible, but it's disgusting to speculate others sexuality. If she wants to tell us, she can. If she doesn't, that's fine too.

[@13realmusic]

It feels like all evidence points to her being straighter than a ruler, and if she wanted to come out as queer she would do it. No point in bugging her about it. It’s giving cult vibes over there now.

[@thecollector5204]

Honestly! Has no one learned from the many times a celebrity has had to forcefully come out? I can't believe the gall of these people who don't know how to mind their own business.

[@pirateninjaunicorn666]

Also a queer TS fan and respectfully, I have never seen a straighter woman.

[@Man-ej6uv]

i'm not a taylor fan but i am a queer person and i wish we could all give people privacy about their sexualities and romantic orientations. not our business

[@lucypreece7581]

Same. I am a queer Swiftie as well and the Gaylors annoy me to no end. Like yes art is subjective and you can find personal meaning in a song through a queer lense but that does not give you the right to speculate a person's sexuality and invade the personal life to fit a narrative that you want

[@CookiehsAndDreams]

As for news for the video game world, a 13-year-old kid beat Tetris for the first time ever!

[@briannam916]

I didn't know you could beat Tetris. What does that mean? Made it to the last level or what?

[@starsiadraws]

​@@briannam916 Essentially, he managed to defeat a level that causes the game to glitch and crash. This is referred to as a "true kill screen," which means the game is not able to keep running after that point. Although there are new records being chased for speedrunning to this level, as well as actually avoiding these glitches to push to higher and higher levels.

[@aamu3]

yeah!!

[@charlybrown5264]

Wasn't he the first ever, to beat tetris ? Even the inventors themselves congratulated him.

[@yvonnaFBI]

cute pfp !!! i went and checked out ur channal/art links ur arts awesome keep it up :)@@starsiadraws

[@donotme8061]

The divorce info is actually really sad. Like you get married to someone you want to spend the rest of your life with, but the harassment is so bad that you get a divorce - not because you don’t want to be together, but because of actual outside forces poisoning the you you have.

[@kooliokatz2540]

those 2 people that missed their flight tho...

[@liamniki1488]

Sus

[@MichellaneousMe]

EDIT: I just checked twitter and Nicki is still going! The Megan’s law lyric could’ve been directed at anyone but Nicki responded by going on a 72+ hour rampage on Twitter. The thing is I would’ve never known the song Hiss existed if it weren’t for Nicki giving it free promotion and attention. As they saying goes “a hit dog will holler”

[@Bazibishop]

As a Nicki fan. We all knew about the Kenneth petty accusations bc Nicki haters always used to bring it up at every chance. Nicki should have never responded bc the general public didn’t know. Just Nicki fans and haters

[@maya-jg7wt]

@@Bazibishop are you saying she shouldn't have responded bec the general public didnt know,,, and it was better that way? atl for her? she knew what she was doing when she married that man and defends him at every turn as if her life depends on it. people should be aware of sex offenders, and how hollywood is crawling with them.

[@oliviaazevedo3665]

@@maya-jg7wt i think they were trying to say it would be better for nicki’s image. Like ofc her Stans/haters knew ab but now that she’s publically responding to a diss that had no indication it was ab her, the whole public knows her husband is a weirdo now. And the public being aware is fs better, i used to love nicki but your partner says a lot about you imo so I stopped supporting

[@Bazibishop]

@@oliviaazevedo3665 exactly that’s what I was trying to convey. Nicki should have been smarter. Even if it’s morally wrong. I’m just saying in reality Nicki has ruined her image. Again.

[@teqkilla]

She’s did what she did unfortunately but it just shows how much power she holds in the female rap world so whatever high debut ‘hiss’ debuts will be thanks to Nicki

[@niarahancock4739]

One thing forgotten about the emmy awards is Quinta Brunson winning best lead actress for comedy for her series Abbott Elementary making her the first black woman to receive the award in 40 years for reference the last time a black women was awarded this was Isabel Sanford for her role in The Jeffersons

[@psychedelicyeti6053]

Her reaction when she learned this almost made me cry

[@floofzykitty5072]

Yuzuru Hanyu breaking off his marriage due to media harassment is so sad when you think about how he is essentially being (unwillingly) treated like Japanese idol. The media coverage has widely been negative because idol culture is so toxic that when idols so much as interact with the opposite sex they get death threats and harassment campaigns launched against them. Most idols even have clauses in their contracts that prohibit them from being in a relationship.

[@just-trying-my-best-everyday]

Hearing that CORBIN BLUE and CONSTANCE WU were in Little Shop of Horrors shook me to my core. What???

[@K.C-2049]

that airplane door story is some real world Final Destination ish hooooly someone please look out for those people.

[@cyberbone]

“open wide i guess” made me SCREAMMMM

[@machinegunlament]

This series is is helpful to me as someone who refuses to have tiktok.

[@zoejohnson6397]

can we talk about Elon musk's literal BRAIN CHIP?? he needs to be stopped

[@alyssa.h73]

i was honestly expecting more people to talk about it cause that’s some crazy sci-fi stuff

[@Man-ej6uv]

STOP THIS MAN!!!

[@keenoled]

No I want a piece on the dude (I am convinced it's a dude yes) who volunteered.

[@KikaJoye]

that chip is for ppl who cant walk, but with it they could..and they are pretty hopefull about it

[@lillia.c]

and the fact that he tested it on monkeys and they all died :( i hate him so much he’s fucked up

[@katherinelynch4193]

An RIP you missed: N. Scott Momaday, one of the greatest writers of the Native American Renaissance, died on January 24 at the age of 89. Seriously, everybody should at least read his book “The Way to Rainy Mountain” - it’s really good.

[@CosmicSnails]

Whats it about

[@cxffaine]

She also missed the death of the Internet's Kitchen Grandma, CookingWithLynja. 😢 (I still enjoyed the recap though)

[@redbluebae4397]

Nobody cares about American Indians. Sadly. I care. Ppl avoid talking about us because of their guilt and or jealousy

[@junimondig]

@@CosmicSnails "The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969) is a book by Pulitzer Prize winning author N. Scott Momaday. It is about the journey of Momaday's Kiowa ancestors from their ancient beginnings in the Montana area to their final war and surrender to the United States Cavalry at Fort Sill, and subsequent resettlement near Rainy Mountain, Oklahoma."

[@fruitingbody409]

House made of Dawn would be my pick !! :) good comment. My own circle was crushed about it but we’re literary nerds.

[@highbrbieee]

"stanley still uses lead" that took me out 💀💀 explains a lot

[@mrsclark78]

Lol it does

[@ToyCircle]

This January felt long. So many things happened in pop culture.

[@sketchycat6223]

Might not technically be January, but UMG removing all of their artists music from TikTok is big news. Considering that app literally used to be Musically, it’s just so weird to do something like that randomly after years

[@trinaq]

This channel helps me stay on top of international news. This was the first time I've heard of the "Wizards of Waverly Place" reboot.

[@obi_oma]

let’s see how that one pans out lol

[@kamsismith]

I thought you first heard of it through MsMojo.

[@johanabi]

@@kamsismithdid they comment this on a watch mojo video or something lol

[@kamsismith]

Yes.

[@lmcb8447]

I didn't even know until now ... chao 😭

[@trinaq]

America Ferrera couldn't even get excited about her own Oscar Nomination, since she had to comfort Margot Robbie for not receiving one herself. Also, even if Greta Gerwig didn't get the best Director nod, her writing was still acknowledged.

[@taylornusteling8692]

That was very unfair to America, hope she wins it though. But yeah, it's very interesting how hers was ignored.

[@obi_oma]

smh

[@anaiswatterson4772]

And funny enough, when I watched the movie America and Ryan Gosling were the highlights for me 😭 I don’t get the outrage about them being nominated at all

[@TheGrowingStrong]

I don't think Margot Robbie was expecting a nomination for best actress. She didn't even campaign for it. And she did get a nomination for producing.

[@K.C-2049]

@@anaiswatterson4772 I knew Ryan Gosling was gonna steal the show the second I heard he was cast. his comedic timing and sense of humour in real life is damn near flawless

[@TheLadySilverMoon]

On January 14th, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark abdicated and her eldest son became King Frederik X.

[@psychedelicyeti6053]

I was on the royal fashion side of tiktok when I learned about this 😅 truly interesting how royal life is adjusting to the current times

[@ruiqiumai323]

I’m not a fan of the Kardashians, but I am sad to hear the mobile game is going down. I played through the story years ago, and at the end I felt satisfied. Idk why I felt a boost of confidence, but that game led me to figuring out my style when I was at a crossroads in my 20s. Rip

[@bluebear9228]

Tbh it wasn’t necessarily her game there was an original superstar game n then they branded her on it later on

[@NightQueen01]

It was still a fun game to play and did cover a lot of what this person has said.

[@NightQueen01]

I also liked the Kylie and Kendal game. I think I liked the art style of that one more.

[@laurenfrey873]

Hinton Battle, another Broadway legend, passed away on 30 January. Fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer would know him as the demon Sweet from the fantastic episode, Once More With Feeling.

[@gina9575]

Stanley uses *LEAD* in their production?! okay I’m super glad I don’t own one now 😅

[@kittykittybangbang9367]

I'm so glad that I chose ello

[@BryanCostner]

As Ricky Gervais once said that could be a quote for Nicki responding to Megan's diss *"Just because you're offended doesn't mean you are right"* 😂😂

[@caroleenolyn5400]

Literally HOW were you able to turn this around so quickly, incredible team behind this channel ❤

[@heatherward6175]

what also happened was me turning 30!!! ayoooo 📢📢📢📢

[@emmie_masters]

HAPPY 30th BIRTHDAY!

[@idontownagoldfish]

MILESTONE WOOOAAAAHHHH HAPPY 30

[@psychedelicyeti6053]

Welcome to the dirty 30 club!

[@bb-mf6qh]

30 flirty and thriving ✨️

[@luciarivera8996]

Happy birthday! I hope you had a blast of a party 🎉🍻🥳

[@MissGathagu]

“Open wide I guess” damn girl imma have to steal this one 😭😭

[@missyface5]

Ah, my monthly newspaper 🗞️

[@lunarsnowberry]

These recaps are always so good! I stepped away from social media so seeing whats going on is always a wild ride.

[@janellimarie]

That Barbie coffee table book is super smart.

[@migaish_]

The 2016 anime Yuri On Ice! used a lot of Yuzuru Hanyu's skating techniques as reference for the animation (specifically for the main character, Yuri Katsuki). So Hanyu is quite well known outside of figure skating and Japan. It is very sad to hear about his divorce still, no one deserves that

[@stvk99]

must be hard being a straight man in figure skating

[@lilac951]

-What did you miss ? - Eehm, almost everything...

[@sunny-pe2uo]

I love these. Thank you for compiling all the news

[@evaphillips2102]

I had a baby on the day Kali Uchis announced her pregnancy. I’m so happy for her, I listened to her album over and over again to get through painful contractions. She looks amazing ❤

[@nana8135]

❤❤

[@kamsismith]

Frank Farian’s death, the two actors from the Milli Vanilli movie won Best New Actors at Germany’s equalivent to the Oscars, the release of the Mean Girls movie musical, reports reveal that Matthew Perry lied about his sobriety and physically abused women, the trailer for Back to Black dropped, and three more people have been cast alongside Jaafar Jackson for the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic

[@gemmamoon5998]

She did mention Mean Girls in the video, just so you know

[@kamsismith]

@@gemmamoon5998 I know.

[@NiloferTimol]

I love these monthly updates. Thanks for making the effort

[@justsomegirl_xiii]

i thought we all agreed chips in the brain was a bad idea ....

[@pricemoore2022]

Awesome recap of my favorite movies and shows and thank you for mentioning Wizards Of Waverly Place and Despicable Me 4!!!!😊😊😊😊

[@strawberrylime33]

Thanks for the updates!!

[@kekssocke6415]

Loved the video, I'm already excited for February's recap vid!

[@katherinenutella]

The Sierra Mist -> Starry rebrand was January 2023.

[@MadameWario]

I was just about to comment this lol!! There are so many things in this video that I didn’t know about, yet somehow something I feel like EVERYONE has known about for an entire year got missed??? 🤪

[@MostDefinitelyNotRosie]

Thank you for recapping, what a long month 😮‍💨

[@gemmamoon5998]

I’m so glad you mentioned Sistar19. They’re icons & lots of fans are hoping for a full Sistar reunion in the future.

[@clara7904]

And at Coachella, ATEEZ will perform as first ever kpop boy group ❤

[@Natasha-ew6qu]

Something I wish you mentioned was how the new Steamboat Willie horror movie received a surprising detractor comment, what makes it particularly surprising, (and awesome), was that it was written by the director of Blood and Honey, (at least someone's finally acknowledging his mistake), but in all seriousness, I recommend you read the quote in full yourself. It brings up a lot of good points about how creators really need to work on high-quality stories and projects. As a fanfiction writer on Wattpad myself, I know all about that.

[@ohbooyourselves]

Happy BHM ❤💚🖤

[@madivandoren]

I love this series, and thank uou for doign it!

[@hepcatliz]

these recaps are great, there's so much going on I can never keep up myself 😅❤

[@grayson3542]

Im loving this type of content Iv'e been trying to stay off social media and these recaps give me that dose of pop culture i need

[@mirror-images]

Tom Scott leaving KZbin was a big one too

[@singingnay195]

Starry replaced Sierra Mist in January 2023, you're only a year off.

[@music4life813]

I love this format

[@rogerreaney7746]

very well done! Thank you!😊

[@hearts4cha]

i love this channel it tells me so much!

[@sfmmmo7599]

Good video! Thanks for it!!

[@niwwwaaa1042]

I love this kind of content keep it up💞🙌🙌

[@AttemptedVoices]

Thanks for this.

[@TiltonicaYoutube]

Why isn’t Katt Williams interview on here 😭😭😭😭

[@13realmusic]

I need someone to do a video about A24 because they’ve had so many projects come out like The Idol and now Maxine where it’s alleged that bad things happened on set, but the blame goes to everybody except for them even though they are the production company.

[@sweetsnejinka9411]

Yes, that studio name smacks of controversies. Id also watch a breakdown of their story.

[@nana8135]

❤❤

[@CherryEggi]

I'm so thankful for this videos

[@RestlessChildcz]

I love these, not only do they catch me up but they’re going to be important historical documents one day❤

[@c0ldas1ce_]

my fav news!

[@danielpsac]

what a month!

[@iliana7646]

Thankfully, January is over

[@hannahmaria6887]

Wow, January was a long year

[@kimia1664]

The 2 guys missing their flights was amaaaaazing.

[@chloegefroh4397]

sierra must be ame starry MONTHS ago. i work at a grocery store we were informed the change would be happening in like august and only a few weeks later did we start getting starry in

[@MichellaneousMe]

Over where I’m at they still have Sierra Mist in the stores. Now are they expired? Most definitely, but they are still there collecting dust 😂

[@gabriellepriest5007]

If my research is right, I think Starry was introduced LAST January

[@mrsclark78]

Yep I’ve been seeing Starry for like a year. Big advertising on soda dispensers. I don’t remember the last time I see (or noticed) a Sierra Mist

[@psychedelicyeti6053]

I definitely saw it a month before I went to watch Barbie and Oppenheimer because I remember saying, "I had this at Panera!" 😅

[@khadijahmalone3034]

These videos help me stay up to date since I’ve deleted twitter

[@JadeEyes1]

As an employee of... let's say a certain retail establishment that sells soda, I can confirm that Starry has been available since last summer.

[@pauli_joy]

Oh wow I did NOT expect that Sistar19 shout out HEYAAA

[@honeyv777]

They usually include something kpop related in these videos👍

[@pauli_joy]

@@honeyv777 oh ye I know hahaha but it's usually mainstream ones like Blackpink and NewJeans so I didn't her to be in the know of Sistar

[@gemmamoon5998]

I wonder how they find all of this stuff! Must spend a looot of time on tiktok and twitter. I’m a casual fan of figure skating and I hadn’t even heard of the Yuzuru Hanyu stuff! Maybe they just have a k-pop fan on the team lol

[@strawberrykun6136]

Bro how tf are months passing this fast 😭

[@bmwjourdandunngoddess6024]

Wasn’t Diddy’s exposing and Katt Williams Interview missing?

[@LlamawithHat]

Diddy was exposed in 2023

[@johntuff1309]

Can you do a style analysis on Bring it On?! 📣

[@nnnnyaaasss]

SISTAR19!! Gag of the decade 😊

[@imanr8302]

what editing software are you using darling? xx

[@TheLegendaryMovieCritic]

Mily Alcock is playing Supergirl in The DCU!

[@nalday2534]

So excited

[@simplyselina]

HUNTER IS IT A BRA?! How do I do that??? Honestly I missed everything bc I was on vacation. I’ve never felt so out of the loop lmao

[@kiwikarp9509]

They gave out samples of Starry at my college campus. I thought it was weird.

[@yeno.9787]

Yuzuru Hanyu’s divorce will always be upsetting to me. Screw the press who constantly harassed his wife. I hope she’s doing okay now…

[@B4kedG00D]

No they did not do that to Usher when he's been around wayyyyy before Harry Styles. Like are you serious?! Edit: And to add insult to injury the model isn't even a woman of color. So..... double homicide.😡😡

[@bleujaey]

I am here wayyyyy too early😅

[@psychedelicyeti6053]

Rip Chita Rivera. I didn't know 😢 Damn that elon musk one... Just finished rewatching an episode of Silicon Valley tonight where Jared said Gavin Belson tried to microchip him 😳 some headlines make me wonder if this is reality?!

[@romeliapc4175]

In kpop news: ATEEZ becomes the first kpop boy group to be had on Coachella Stage. ❤

[@angles18]

No one cares about the men. BLACKPINK

[@dazedneptune]

That Taylor Swift article was extremely cringe tbh. It felt really creepy and inappropriate to speculate on her sexuality with a bunch of bizarre fan conspiracies from someone desperate to be validated. Pretty sure TS is straight, but if she isn’t that’s her business. And there are other famous openly queer artists to celebrate instead of wishing Taylor was one of them.

[@missbellaiza]

can u do a costume review for the movie Poor Things?

[@cheshirerose2001]

Avril Lavigne also announced a greatest hits tour too

[@janellimarie]

I wondered the same thing about Usher’s photoshoot. The female model lol so out of place. It looked like they were supposed to be playing a couple but obviously weren’t one.

[@noorhaq4886]

Could u please mention the things that happens in the icj

[@Housewarmin]

January felt sooo long

[@PokhrajRoy.]

4:53 JLo really was firing on all 4 pistons although felt queasy when I heard Sadhguru and Jay Shetty were in it which was a…choice.

[@lastgirl7071]

Hazbin Hotel S1 has been released on Amazon Prime (does this count?)

[@gerrardnathanaelwijaya6056]

Hey girl! Can you react and rate the outfit of the girls in Golden Globe?

[@Bazibishop]

I knew 95% of these. I am chronically online

[@mayaleeleng]

I'm gonna miss Kim Kardashian Hollywood! I played that game so much and put so much time and effort into it, as lame as that sounds. 😭💔

[@ars-vitae]

On 1/30 Dan and Phil did their first livestream in 6 years and raised $100,000 for Palestinian children 🇵🇸❤

[@BrainDumpProductions24]

Hey Tessa! Ik you prolly won’t see this, and a lot of people prolly already said this, but your December 2023 recap was age restricted for some stupid reason. I wanna be able to watch it again, and I’m sure a lot of people share that sentiment, so just letting you know ❤️

[@veronicavids]

I actually feel bad for Jo Koy. He genuinely didn't have enough time to prepare for something as big as the globes

[@lucyx0xo1]

hiya!!!!!

[@annarita333]

3:46 A foot-long Pretzel is not possible; the shape 🥨is called pretzel. That is a Laugenstange! 😭