He Thinks He’s So Funny
James Franco must not have wanted to get his pants wet when he took on the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, because he wasn’t wearing any. Judging by his Moby Dick shirt and the fact that he covered his private parts with a sheet of yellow paper with the names of Zach Braff, Joey King and Keegan Allen, his decision to go pantsless definitely was for added LOLs. Thanks, Selena Gomez for challenging him.

A Legendary Voice Goes Silent
The “Saturday Night Live” announcer Don Pardo died on Monday evening in his sleep. The last host he introduced was Andy Samberg in the last episode of season 39.

Must Read This Letter
Trayvon Martin‘s mother wrote a heartbreaking letter to Michael Brown’s family. Read it here.

Hart Is Taken
Kevin Hart put a ring on it and is now engaged. The former MTV Video Music Awards host proposed to his girlfriend of five years, Eniko Parrish. Congrats!

Swifties Rejoice
Taylor Swift debuted “Shake It Off,” the first single off her upcoming album 1989 and its music video on Monday. In the video, she tackles on a wide variety of dance styles. Which one do you think she pulls off the best?

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Future and Metro Boomin have already proven their undeniable chemistry with hits like “Karate Chop,” “I Won” and “Honest.” Early Monday night (August 18), they did it once again, with their new joint “Monster,” premiered by MTV.

“I can’t be scared of none of you n—as, y’all some snitches/ I got some girls that claim they straight, but now they kissin’/ These bitches switchin’, tryna give my d–k a hickey,” the Atlanta MC raps over the Metro beat, co-produced by Southside.

The track will be included on his upcoming mixtape, set for an October release and currently untitled (despite some reports that it would be called Evol). Expect the video soon.

Adam Fleischer

“Your hands up, you still getting shot,” 50 Cent raps on the chorus to “Ahhh Sh–,” addressing the recent shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, after witnesses said the 18-year-old had put his hands above his head before he was killed.

J.Cole Visits Ferguson

The track, which includes vocals from Fif, Kidd Kidd and Young Buck, was released on Monday (August 18), and opens and closes with audio footage captured from another recent incident involving law enforcement and the death of a civilian: When police tried to apprehend Eric Garner in New York in July. Police allegedly put Garner in a chokehold, which brought him to the ground; he died shortly thereafter.

“Ever since Mike Brown went down/ My whole city like, F–k a cop,” Buck raps on his verse.

We should be getting a mixtape and album from the Unit before the year is out.

Adam Fleischer

Everyone has that one Facebook friend — you know the one. The one that sends us into giggling fits of superiority when s/he unintentionally posts articles from The Onion to Facebook as if they were fact.

“This is a movie for children!” they rage, linking to an article about the Ninja Turtles’ CGI-spun genitals. SMH, am I right?

Well, now those poor souls could be spared the embarrassment that is believing fake news, as Facebook is testing a new “Satire” tag — an occurrence that prompted The Onion to respond in characteristically tongue-in-cheek fashion with an article titled “Area Facebook User Incredibly Stupid.”

“Describing him as frequently frustrated and overwhelmed, sources confirmed Monday that local Facebook user Michael Huffman is incredibly stupid,” The Onion wrote. “‘I need stuff easy,’ said the absolute dipsh–, adding that he finds many things confusing, and that those things must be changed so that they make sense to him.”

“At press time, someone had reportedly fixed everything for the goddamn imbecile,” the piece concludes.

Apparently, users had, indeed, been asking for such a feature — likely not as hilariously as the nonexistent Huffman, however.

Mashable reported this past weekend that the new proposed Facebook feature would add a tag reading “[Satire]” to articles found in the related articles unit in our News Feeds.

“This is because we received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units,” a Facebook representative told Mashable.

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Nicki Minaj‘s sure-to-be-twerktastic video for “Anaconda” is just around the corner, and to celebrate the VMA performer’s impending premiere, we’ve compiled some fascinating facts about its namesake: the anaconda. Like, the literal snake — not the other kind.

We hit up biologist Jesús A. Rivas, co-founder of The Anaconda Project, to find out more about the creature, and he pointed us to his website, which is packed to bursting with facts about Minaj’s favorite snake. We’ve compiled the ones more pertinent to the The Pinkprint singer below:

Nicki Minaj Is Performing ‘Anaconda’ At The 2014 VMAs: YASSS

1.) Anacondas are kind of polygamous — but it’s the female snake that gets to chill with multiple males

Much like Nicki does in the song — despite her assertions of the contrary.

2.) The female is much larger than the male

I guess they do, indeed, like big butts — or whatever the snake equivalent of a butt is.

3.) The largest snake in the world is the green anaconda

But is it bigger than a tower?

4.) The largest anaconda that Rivas has measured is 18 feet

Not quite, then.

5.) They mostly eat birds and mammals

So they don’t really dig buns, I guess — at least not the kind made of dough.

6.) An anaconda can, in fact, eat a person (although they probably haven’t ...