Ahmed Mohamed was eager to show his homemade digital clock to his teacher at MacArthur High School, but when school officials saw the circuit boards inside the device, they arrested him for bringing a "hoax bomb" to campus. But every cloud has a silver lining; the attention on his story has brought the 14-year-old robotics enthusiast V.I.P invitations to all sorts of exciting places, including the White House, MIT and the headquarters of Google and Facebook, just to name a few.

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Vlogger Nicole Arbour is racking up her YouTube view counts after inciting a wave of outrage with her "Dear Fat People" monologue video, in which she openly criticizes the fat acceptance movement and encourages "fat shaming" to stigmatize obesity.

Kim Davis, the Kentuckian county-clerk who was jailed for refusing to obey a court order saying she must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, is receiving another judgement in the form of image macros, parody Twitters, and even fake crowdfunding accounts.

Gamers outraged by a sketch about the Let's Play community on YouTube have been flooding videos on the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel with negative comments and downvotes.