After generating over six million iterations of custom-captioned posters in just two days over a week, it may not be an exaggeration to say the viral marketing campaign for Straight Outta Compton stole the thunder from the hiphop biopic film itself, which opens in theatres nationwide today.

If you were a 90s kid, the return of the truly star-studded ensemble cast (for the most part, anyway) should be good enough of a reason to watch the serial revival of the 2000 cult hit comedy film, now available on Netflix.

As the black community in Ferguson, Missouri solemnly commemorates the tragic loss of an unarmed black teeanger from a year ago, the city braces for another day of violence in the wake of yesterday's police shooting of yet another black man on the one year anniversary of Michael Brown's death.

Following a rather embarassing wardrobe malfunction in which performer Lenny Kravitz accidentally exposed himself on stage at a concert in Sweden, the Internet erupted with jokes about the incident using the hashtag #penisgate.

While the retirement of the Canadian hitchhiking robot seems inevitable after it was found maimed beyond repair in Philadelphia this week, the viral surveillance video purportedly showing the death of hitchBOT has been debunked as a hoax most likely orchestrated by a pair of YouTube pranksters.