This is why we can’t have nice things, Internet. Here we are, thinking the most amazing “twerk fail” video is real, that the girl in the video was idiotic enough to try an inverted twerk against her front door, that she accidentally smashed her booze-and-fire-covered table when someone opened the door against her, that she really did catch her yoga pants ablaze – only to find out that the whole thing was just a ploy by troll extraordinaire, Jimmy Kimmel.
That’s right, Jimmy Kimmel tricked us by posting the video to YouTube, and not telling a soul that it was produced by his show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” a sad fact that he revealed last night.
“To the conspiracy theorists on the Internet who thought the video was fake: You were right, it was fake,” said Kimmel during the show, while sitting along side the video’s star, “Caitlin Heller” – whose name, of course, isn’t even Caitlin. Her real name is Daphne Avalon. And she is a professional stuntwoman.
Fun fact: The other girl in the video, who knocks Avalon into the table, really is named Caitlin. She’s a dancer and choreographer from Los Angeles. Also, if you want to see more of Avalon, she can be seen riding a horse in this Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 trailer. And more of her stunt work appears in the upcoming b-horror films The Hunted, as well as Nightmare Code, which is set for release next year. But considering how betrayed you might feel known that one of the Web’s greatest mishaps was just one giant lie, we wouldn’t blame you for holding a grudge.
Of course, we all should have seen this coming, as Kimmel is known for pulling fast ones where the Internet is concerned. For example, you know Kimmel’s “Celebrities Read Mean Tweets” segment? Well, at least some of those tweets were apparently faked.
You just opened X and started typing your thoughts. Imagine the jump scare when a hand suddenly pops up on your screen, pointing at the promote button. It doesn’t say a word and simply points. For a growing number of X users, this isn’t a made-up scenario but something they have been seeing since yesterday, and very few of them are amused.
Most of us have learned to tune out the usual in-app upsells, whether it’s a glowing upgrade banner or a pop-up about a premium plan. A floating hand hovering over your draft is much harder to ignore, and that’s probably the whole point.
Scroll through any app for five minutes, and you’ll find someone maxxing something. Their skin, their sleep, their protein intake, even their Friday night on the couch. That little suffix has been everywhere this year, and now it has a trophy to show for it. In a recent announcement, Dictionary.com named maxxing its 2026 Word of the Year.
What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?
Instagram is testing a new format for long-form videos called Features. It allows select creators to upload horizontal videos running up to 90 minutes long. Instagram has already tested the new format with creators in Brazil, and now, it's expanding to tens of thousands of creators across the US.
How will Instagram's new Features format work?