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Grammy winner and dance music legend added to Olly Alexander’s trans solidarity concert – here’s how to get tickets
Two-time Grammy award winner Imogen Heap, British dance music legend SG Lewis and BRIT Award nominee Rose Gray have been added to the line-up of Trans Mission 2026, a benefit concert raising funds for the trans community.
They will join previously announced music superstars including Adam Lambert, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Kate Nash and Tom Grennan at the star-studded trans charity gig at OVO Wembley Arena next month.
Announced in November, the trans rights concert and its all-star line-up has been curated by former Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander and LGBTQ+ music festival Mighty Hoopla and will raise funds – split 50/50 – for non-profit the Good Law Project and trans-led charity Not A Phase.
Named Trans Mission, the gig will take place on Wednesday, 11 March 2026 at the Wembley OVO Area in London.
The show is described by the organisers as a “statement that trans people are loved, valued, and celebrated, and that the entertainment industry stands proudly with them”.
In a statement Alexander said: “I believe that in these times, community action isn’t just important – it’s essential! We need real and lasting change.
“Through solidarity, creativity and collective fundraising, we can fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion and build a world where everyone can thrive.
“I am very fortunate to know and work closely alongside incredible trans and non-binary people whose creativity and presence are essential to the cultural fabric we all share.
“Trans Mission is going to be a special and unforgettable night, and I’m excited to share the stage with so many wonderful people I hugely admire.”
Mighty Hoopla co-founders Glyn Fussell and Jamie Tagg said of the gig: “We have been working behind the scenes to organise something on this scale for a long time, to not only fundraise but also publicly stand with the trans community who are under daily attack.
“It is time we came together, got organised and unite to fight back against the hate. This is about allyship, empathy and holding up those we love.”
Jo Maugham, founder of the Good Law Project, added that being is trans is to “celebrate the infinite possibility of the human condition – this amazing lineup is testimony to [trans artists’] creative genius”.
“And as the old world tries to force trans people back into tired social constructs, Good Law Project could not be more proud to fight for, and with, the new,” he added.
Founder and CEO of Not A Phase, Dani St. James, described the concert as a “long time in the making” and said it is a “result of people pouring their hearts into real, affirmative action; a true example of allyship becoming advocacy”.
St. James added: “We’re absolutely thrilled to have been chosen, alongside our friends at Good Law Project, as beneficiaries of the concert.
“Funds raised by this will secure our future work uplifting the lives of trans adults all over the UK.”

The announcement of the concert comes six months after famous figures across the UK music industry signed an open letter in support of the trans community and condemned the controversial Supreme Court ruling on the legal definition of ‘sex’ in the 2010 Equality Act and subsequent Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) interim guidance.
The letter, which included signatures from Alexander, Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, Paloma Faith, JADE and Florence & the Machine, stated: “The UK music industry is a vibrant, diverse landscape that thrives on creativity and inclusivity. We have long celebrated a multitude of voices and identities, and the music industry here in the UK is one of our most trailblazing and culturally vital assets – one which trans, intersex and non-binary people are woven into in every aspect of the industry, past, present and future.”
It goes on to read: “We stand with the many voices who have condemned both the ruling and the EHRC guidance, highlighting the negative consequences that both will have for all individuals and the particular harm that trans, non-binary, and intersex people face as a result.”
Who is performing?
The current line-up, with more set to be announced, includes: Adam Lambert, Beth Ditto, Bimini, Beverley Knight, Christine and the Queens, Fat Tony, GottMikk, HAAi, Imogen Heap, Jasmine.4.T, Kae Tempest, Kate Nash, MNEK, Olly Alexander, Romy, Rose Gray, SG Lewis, Sink the Pink, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sue Veneers, Sugababes, Tom Grennan, Tom Rasmussen, Trans Voices and Wolf Alice.
Alongside the performers, there are set to be appearances from Ian McKellen, Munroe Bergdorf and Shon Raye and Zack Polanski.
This line-up of appearances includes: Dani St James, Grace Campbell, Harriet Rose, Ian McKellen, Jack Rooke, Jayde Adams, Jo Maugham, Jordan Stephens, Juno Birch, Juno Dawson, Kadiff Kirwan, Layton Williams Mawaan Rizwan, Munroe Bergdorf, Nicola Coughlan, Russell Tovey, Shon Faye, Tia Kofi, Tiara Skye, Zack Polanski.
How can you get tickets?
Tickets for Trans Mission are on sale now via AXS and Kaboodle and are available form £28.50.
Ticket restriction information states under 14s must be accompanied by an adult.
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Discord users must complete face or ID scan this month, or get restricted
Discord users must complete a face or government ID scan by the end of this month or else face restrictions on the content they can see, the company announced this week.
The instant messaging and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) app announced Monday (9 February) that it plans to roll out new “teen-by-default settings” at the beginning of March 2026.
The new security update will set all user accounts to “teen-appropriate” and requires that they complete age verification tests to see certain types of content.
Discord first implemented its age verification tools in July 2025 in response to the amendments made to the UK’s Online Safety Act, which requires service providers hosting user-generated content to implement age checks.

The implemented safety features require that users allow Discord’s third-party “age assurance” software to record a video of their face and generate an age estimate, or provide a picture of a government-issued ID, as well as a selfie matching the ID photo.
Users who cannot complete the age verification test will be unable to see content that Discord’s algorithms detect as graphic or sensitive, will receive warnings over friend requests, and will be prevented from speaking in Discord’s “stage channels”.
Public servers will also be affected, with many being designated as “age-restricted” depending on the kind of content posted there. Teen-appropriate users will be unable to access these servers.
Savannah Badalich, Discord’s global head of product policy, told The Verge that the majority of adult users won’t need to complete the test and, instead, will be fast-tracked through account information such as “account tenure, device and activity data, and aggregated, high-level patterns across Discord communities”.
ID-photos leak has Discord users concerned
Discord has faced significant criticism from users who argue the move poses a major privacy risk depending on how third-party apps store age-verification data.
In October 2025, over 70,000 photos of official government IDs were leaked after a firm which operated Discord’s age-verification system was hacked.
In a statement at the time, the company said it was working closely with law enforcement to investigate the matter, and had emailed users affected.
The move comes amid a wave of similar steps from internet service providers (ISPs), such as payment processors or social media operators.
Most infamous was payment processors Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe forcing video marketplaces Steam and Itch.io to delist thousands of ‘Not Safe for Work’ (NSFW) video games following pressure from anti-porn lobbyists.
The trio of companies threatened to cease allowing users to process purchases on the sites unless they respectively removed content considered graphic or sexual.
Top video game modding site Nexus Mods was also forced to put its NSFW content behind age checks in response to the UK government’s amendments.
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Football referee assaulted at home one week after proposing to boyfriend at match
German football referee Pascal Kaiser was assaulted at his home, just a week after proposing to his boyfriend on the pitch.
Kaiser proposed to his partner, Moritz, at Cologne’s RheinEnergieStadion in front of almost 50,000 spectators ahead of a match between FC Köln and VfL Wolfsburg.
The proposal was widely shared online, sadly leading Kaiser to receive threats. French newspaper L’Équipe reported that some of these threats referenced his home address, which Kaiser reported to police, who advised there was no immediate threat.
However, just 20 minutes after speaking with police, while in his garden smoking, three men attacked Kaiser, leaving him with an injury to his right eye.
Carla Antonelli, Spain’s first openly transgender senator, took to Instagram to share an image of Kaiser’s injured face.
The LGBTQ+ activist’s captioned read: “Terrible message, if you make yourself visible we’ll put you in the closet: Referee Pascal Kaiser, who proposed to his partner before the Cologne-Wolfsburg match, was assaulted at his home. It is known that prior to the assault, the address of Pascal Kaiser’s house had leaked on social media and received direct threats. Police intervened after the attack and Pascal Kaiser is now in a safe place under police protection.”
Kaiser, who came out as bisexual in 2021, making him one of a few openly LGBTQ+ referees in professional football, used the proposal to emphasise the need for queer visibility in football.
The self-proclaimed LGBTQ+ activist said during the proposal that he wanted people to see “a man loving a man in football”.
Kaiser previously told German press: “Since coming out, I’ve been much more open on the pitch. I don’t hide anything anymore, and that makes me stronger, not weaker. We have to dare to be fully present.”
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Trump admin removes Pride flag from Stonewall monument in “deliberate act of erasure”

The National Park Service (NPS) has removed the rainbow flag from the Stonewall National Monument, saying it did so in adherence with “government-wide guidance.”
The NPS confirmed the removal of the flag to Gay City News, explaining that “only the U.S. flag and other congressionally or departmentally authorized flags are flown on NPS-managed flagpoles, with limited exceptions.”
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“Any changes to flag displays are made to ensure consistency with that guidance,” the statement continued. “Stonewall National Monument continues to preserve and interpret the site’s historic significance through exhibits and programs.”
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The New York City monument is the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to LGBTQ+ rights, having been designated as such in 2016 by then-President Barack Obama. It then became tradition for the monument, located in a park across the street from the Stonewall Inn, to be adorned with various Pride flags, including the trans flag. Until Trump took office, NPS funded the installation of these flags.
Local queer leaders slammed the flag’s removal in a joint statement. “This is a deliberate act of erasure,” said Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D), state Senator Erik Bottcher (D), and former Assemblymember Deborah Glick (D). “The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth. Our history will not be erased, and our Pride is not theirs to take down.”
The move comes after the administration has already spent the past year trying to erase pieces of Stonewall history.
Last February, NPS removed all mentions of transgender people from its webpage on Stonewall to comply with Trump’s executive orders prohibiting any federal recognition of trans people in any aspect of civic life. It subsequently removed references to bisexual people, too.
Numerous federal webpages began removing mentions of trans people and gender identity after a January 29 directive from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) telling federal agencies to “end federal funding of gender ideology” in programming, policies, and outward-facing media. The directive reflects Republicans’ larger crusade against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts by government bodies and private businesses.
Steven Love Menendez, an NPS flag caretaker, told Gay City News that removing the Pride flag is “a hateful and petty act from a hateful administration.”
“They have no idea what the meaning of love and community is. They are hellbent on harming as many marginalized groups as they possibly can. They have no compassion, kindness, or soul.”
He wondered why the Pride flag would not count as a “limited exception” for a monument focused on LGBTQ+ rights, given the administration’s guidance says that exemptions to its rules include flags that “provide historical context.”
Before the most recent Pride flag’s removal, the administration had already banned the Trans Pride flag and the Progress Pride flag from flying at the monument. The first Trump administration also directed efforts at keeping the Pride flag away from Stonewall.
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If it feels these days as if everything in technology is about AI, that’s because it is. And nowhere is that more true than in the market for computer memory. Demand, and profitability, for the type of DRAM used to feed GPUs and other accelerators in AI data centers is so huge that it’s diverting away supply of memory for other uses and causing prices to skyrocket. According to Counterpoint Research, DRAM prices have risen 80-90 precent so far this quarter.
The largest AI hardware companies say they have secured their chips out as far as 2028, but that leaves everybody else—makers of PCs, consumer gizmos, and everything else that needs to temporarily store a billion bits—scrambling to deal with scarce supply and inflated prices.
How did the electronics industry get into this mess, and more importantly, how will it get out? IEEE Spectrum asked economists and memory experts to explain. They say today’s situation is the result of a collision between the DRAM industry’s historic boom and bust cycle and an AI hardware infrastructure build-out that’s without precedent in its scale. And, barring some major collapse in the AI sector, it will take years for new capacity and new technology to bring supply in line with demand. Prices might stay high even then.
To understand both ends of the tale, you need to know the main culprit in the supply and demand swing, high-bandwidth memory, or HBM.
What is HBM?
HBM is the DRAM industry’s attempt to short-circuit the slowing pace of Moore’s Law by using 3D chip packaging technology. Each HBM chip is made up of as many as 12 thinned-down DRAM chips called dies. Each die contains a number of vertical connections called through silicon vias (TSVs). The dies are piled atop each other and connected by arrays of microscopic solder balls aligned to the TSVs. This DRAM tower—well, at about 750 micrometers thick, it’s more of a brutalist office-block than a tower—is then stacked atop what’s called the base die, which shuttles bits between the memory dies and the processor.
This complex piece of technology is then set within a millimeter of a GPU or other AI accelerator, to which it is linked by as many as 2,048 micrometer-scale connections. HBMs are attached on two sides of the processor, and the GPU and memory are packaged together as a single unit.
The idea behind such a tight, highly-connected squeeze with the GPU is to knock down what’s called the memory wall. That’s the barrier in energy and time of bringing the terabytes per second of data needed to run large language models into the GPU. Memory bandwidth is a key limiter to how fast LLMs can run.
As a technology, HBM has been around for more than 10 years, and DRAM makers have been busy boosting its capability.
As the size of AI models has grown, so has HBM’s importance to the GPU. But that’s come at a cost. SemiAnalysis estimates that HBM generally costs three times as much as other types of memory and constitutes 50 percent or more of the cost of the packaged GPU.
Origins of the memory chip shortage
Memory and storage industry watchers agree that DRAM is a highly cyclical industry with huge booms and devastating busts. With new fabs costing US $15 billion or more, firms are extremely reluctant to expand and may only have the cash to do so during boom times, explains Thomas Coughlin, a storage and memory expert and president of Coughlin Associates. But building such a fab and getting it up and running can take 18 months or more, practically ensuring that new capacity arrives well past the initial surge in demand, flooding the market and depressing prices.
The origins of today’s cycle, says Coughlin, go all the way back to the chip supply panic surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic . To avoid supply-chain stumbles and support the rapid shift to remote work, hyperscalers—data center giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft—bought up huge inventories of memory and storage, boosting prices, he notes.
But then supply became more regular and data center expansion fell off in 2022, causing memory and storage prices to plummet. This recession continued into 2023, and even resulted in big memory and storage companies such as Samsung cutting production by 50 percent to try and keep prices from going below the costs of manufacturing, says Coughlin. It was a rare and fairly desperate move, because companies typically have to run plants at full capacity just to earn back their value.
After a recovery began in late 2023, “all the memory and storage companies were very wary of increasing their production capacity again,” says Coughlin. “Thus there was little or no investment in new production capacity in 2024 and through most of 2025.”
The AI data center boom
That lack of new investment is colliding headlong with a huge boost in demand from new data centers. Globally, there are nearly 2,000 new data centers either planned or under construction right now, according to Data Center Map. If they’re all built, it would represent a 20 percent jump in the global supply, which stands at around 9,000 facilities now.
If the current build-out continues at pace, McKinsey predicts companies will spend $7 trillion by 2030, with the bulk of that—$5.2 trillion—going to AI-focused data centers. Of that chunk, $3.3 billion will go toward servers, data storage, and network equipment, the firm predicts.
The biggest beneficiary so far of the AI data center boom is unquestionably GPU-maker Nvidia. Revenue for its data center business went from barely a billion in the final quarter of 2019 to $51 billion in the quarter that ended in October 2025. Over this period, its server GPUs have demanded not just more and more gigabytes of DRAM but an increasing number of DRAM chips. The recently released B300 uses eight HBM chips, each of which is a stack of 12 DRAM dies. Competitors’ use of HBM has largely mirrored Nvidia’s. AMD’s MI350 GPU, for example, also uses eight, 12-die chips.
With so much demand, an increasing fraction of the revenue for DRAM makers comes from HBM. Micron—the number three producer behind SK Hynix and Samsung—reported that HBM and other cloud-related memory went from being 17 percent of its DRAM revenue in 2023 to nearly 50 percent in 2025.
Micron predicts the total market for HBM will grow from $35 billion in 2025 to $100 billion by 2028—a figure larger than the entire DRAM market in 2024, CEO Sanjay Mehrotra told analysts in December. It’s reaching that figure two years earlier than Micron had previously expected. Across the industry, demand will outstrip supply “substantially… for the foreseeable future,” he said.
Future DRAM supply and technology
“There are two ways to address supply issues with DRAM: with innovation or with building more fabs,” explains Mina Kim, an economist with the Mkecon Insights. “As DRAM scaling has become more difficult, the industry has turned to advanced packaging… which is just using more DRAM.”
Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix combined make up the vast majority of the memory and storage markets, and all three have new fabs and facilities in the works. However, these are unlikely to contribute meaningfully to bringing down prices.
Micron is in the process of building an HBM fab in Singapore that should be in production in 2027. And it is retooling a fab it purchased from PSMC in Taiwan that will begin production in the second half of 2027. Last month, Micron broke ground on what will be a DRAM fab complex in Onondaga County, N.Y. It will not be in full production until 2030.
Samsung plans to start producing at a new plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea in 2028.
SK Hynix is building HBM and packaging facilities in West Lafayette, Indiana set to begin production by the end of 2028, and an HBM fab it’s building in Cheongju should be complete in 2027.
Speaking of his sense of the DRAM market, Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan told attendees at the Cisco AI Summit last week: “There’s no relief until 2028.”
With these expansions unable to contribute for several years, other factors will be needed to increase supply. “Relief will come from a combination of incremental capacity expansions by existing DRAM leaders, yield improvements in advanced packaging, and a broader diversification of supply chains,” says Shawn DuBravac , chief economist for the Global Electronics Association (formerly the IPC). “New fabs will help at the margin, but the faster gains will come from process learning, better [DRAM] stacking efficiency, and tighter coordination between memory suppliers and AI chip designers.”
So, will prices come down once some of these new plants come on line? Don’t bet on it. “In general, economists find that prices come down much more slowly and reluctantly than they go up. DRAM today is unlikely to be an exception to this general observation, especially given the insatiable demand for compute,” says Kim.
In the meantime, technologies are in the works that could make HBM an even bigger consumer of silicon. The standard for HBM4 can accommodate 16 stacked DRAM dies, even though today’s chips only use 12 dies. Getting to 16 has a lot to do with the chip stacking technology. Conducting heat through the HBM “layer cake” of silicon, solder, and support material is a key limiter to going higher and in repositioning HBM inside the package to get even more bandwidth.
SK Hynix claims a heat conduction advantage through a manufacturing process called advanced MR-MUF (mass reflow molded underfill). Further out, an alternative chip stacking technology called hybrid bonding could help heat conduction by reducing the die-to-die vertical distance essentially to zero. In 2024, researchers at Samsung proved they could produce a 16-high stack with hybrid bonding, and they suggested that 20 dies was not out of reach.

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Discord will limit profiles to teen-appropriate mode until you verify your age
Discord announced it will put all existing and new profiles in teen-appropriate mode by default in early March.
The teen-appropriate profile mode will remain in place until users prove they are adults. To change a profile to “full access” will require verification by Discord’s age inference model—a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age.
Savannah Badalich, Head of Product Policy at Discord, explained the reasoning:
“Rolling out teen-by-default settings globally builds on Discord’s existing safety architecture, giving teens strong protections while allowing verified adults flexibility. We design our products with teen safety principles at the core and will continue working with safety experts, policymakers, and Discord users to support meaningful, long term wellbeing for teens on the platform.”
Platforms have been facing growing regulatory pressure—particularly in the UK, EU, and parts of the US—to introduce stronger age-verification measures. The announcement also comes as concerns about children’s safety on social media continue to surface. In research we published today, parents highlighted issues such as exposure to inappropriate content, unwanted contact, and safeguards that are easy to bypass. Discord was one of the platforms we researched.
The problem in Discord’s case lies in the age-verification methods it’s made available, which require either a facial scan or a government-issued ID. Discord says that video selfies used for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device, but this method is known not to work reliably for everyone.
Identity documents submitted to Discord’s vendor partners are also deleted quickly—often immediately after age confirmation, according to Discord. But, as we all know, computers are very bad at “forgetting” things and criminals are very good at finding things that were supposed to be gone.
Besides all that, the effectiveness of this kind of measure remains an issue. Minors often find ways around systems—using borrowed IDs, VPNs, or false information—so strict verification can create a sense of safety without fully eliminating risk. In some cases, it may even push activity into less regulated or more opaque spaces.
As someone who isn’t an avid Discord user, I can’t help but wonder why keeping my profile teen-appropriate would be a bad thing. Let us know in the comments what your objections to this scenario would be.
I wouldn’t have to provide identification and what I’d “miss” doesn’t sound terrible at all:
- Mature and graphic images would be permanently blocked.
- Age-restricted channels and servers would be inaccessible.
- DMs from unknown users would be rerouted to a separate inbox.
- Friend requests from unknown users would always trigger a warning pop-up.
- No speaking on server stages.
Given the amount of backlash this news received, I’m probably missing something—and I don’t mind being corrected. So let’s hear it.
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GOP lawmaker brutally mocked for calling the Super Bowl Halftime Show “gay pornography”

The right raged against the Super Bowl Halftime Show this week, mainly complaining that it was in Spanish and that not enough white people performed at it.
But one Republican lawmaker had a unique take: It was a form of “gay pornography.”
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“Last night’s halftime show was a disgrace and it mocked American families,” Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) posted to X yesterday. “Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture.”
“The Bad Bunny performance is conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state.”
Last night’s halftime show was a disgrace and it mocked American families. Depicting gay pornography on prime time has no place in our culture.
— Rep. Andy Ogles (@RepOgles) February 9, 2026
The Bad Bunny performance is conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state.
It’s not clear what he was referring to since there was nothing resembling gay pornography during the show. Republicans, though, often call art and media that includes LGBTQ+ people “gay pornography” even if it isn’t pornography at all, and out LGBTQ+ musicians Ricky Martin and Lady Gaga performed at the show.
Ogles was mocked on X for his claim about Bad Bunny’s performance. Some people pointed out that a man and a woman from California even got married during the Halftime Show.
Gay pornography? You were ogling the wrong tab on your browser.
— Damin Toell (@damintoell) February 9, 2026
I’m a conservative.
— Mark Wylie (@MarkWyl34993414) February 9, 2026
To conclude that a halftime performance by someone from a location is proof that said location should never be a state is one of the least logically defensible statements I’ve ever read.
Mocked American families? He performed a wedding during his act.
— Salty Sea(@SaltySeaFl) February 9, 2026
Posts like this are why MAGA is losing the culture war.
— Seth Taylor (@SethTaylor1991) February 9, 2026
this is seriously your take? You're constituents aren't this dumb, are they?
— Capital EdgeNY/CT (@CapitalEdgeNY) February 9, 2026
It’s now gay for a man to marry a woman. pic.twitter.com/YAhiO76mRX
— Chipotle Roan(@GarbageGangHQ) February 10, 2026
all straight people weirdo pic.twitter.com/U2aRWlJcLk
— Spencer Mullins (@spincity615) February 10, 2026
I think you had your browser on porn hub instead of the Super Bowl
— Sheridan (@WitcheyGirI) February 9, 2026
Sir, I believe you are conflating a dream you had with the actual halftime show.
— Roger (@Bloodlight_86) February 10, 2026
this post is conclusive proof that you are mentally ill and not fit to represent a wet sock in congress. You’re a disgrace.
— cool (@mericancoolguy) February 9, 2026
Was it the man and woman marrying or the people dancing together while talking about love?
— Mr. Spooky Wolff (@MrSpookyWolff) February 9, 2026
Well, maybe YOU spent your Sunday evening watching gay porn, but most others watched the Super Bowl.
— Jennifer (@wrigley_1987) February 9, 2026
Pervert.
Dude, what the hell were you watching? Somebody check this guy's browser history.
— BunchaSheeple (@BunchaSheeple) February 10, 2026