Author: Heath Andrews

Heath Andrews has been a student of pop culture ever since he found himself to be the only student in 3rd grade who regularly watched "Get Smart" on Nick-At-Nite. Ever since then he's been engrossed in way too much media with a growing collection of music, books, comics, TV on DVD box sets, and a video game collection that could rival a brick and mortar store. Prior to writing for Nerdbot he's written for Review You, MyAnimeList, and various advertising companies. Since 2016 he's run his own YouTube channel under the moniker of The Critical Android where he livestreams video games and uploads podcasts about pop culture and Frasier.

In a parking lot near Hermitage, Tennessee, 20-year-old Timothy Wilks lost his life after pretending to rob a group of people with a butcher knife. Even the most innocent of pranks can go horrifyingly wrong, resulting in tragedies that no one would’ve anticipated happening.According to local news network WKRN, before Wilks could reveal that he and his co-participant were trying to record a prank video for YouTube, one of the members of the group shot Wilks, fatally wounding him. Rachelle Friedman wound up the victim of one such prank when in 2010 one of her friends pushed her into a…

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A young man named Alex Kearns was driven to take his own life due to perceived financial losses of $730,000. The word “perceived” is a key element at play in the horrifying tragedy, since the losses were not actually what they appeared to be. Kearns would never discover this, as the information that would’ve helped him understand this calculating error was received too late. Now, his parents are suing the company that allowed Alex to find himself in this terrible situation- Robinhood. Stock market volatility and the rise of independent traders made a tremendous amount of news in late January,…

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The late 90s were a turbulent time for snack foods. You couldn’t go into a laundromat without Ali Landry walking in and flirtatiously tossing nacho-flavored corn chips into a dryer and eating them as they shot out into the air at dangerous speeds. But that was 23 years ago, and times have changed. Many of us might be feeling like we’ve been hit and flattened by the figurative truck that was 2020, but Doritos 3Ds are back to save the day for all of us, including Matthew McConaughey. There is a certain degree of absurdity to Doritos 3Ds back when…

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