Brett White
@brettwhite.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief 💎 Pop Heist
Bylines ✍️ Decider, CBR, MTV News, Marvel
Drag 👠 Barb Hardly
I guess I'm in Minneapolis.
https://popheist.com/
brett at popheist dot com
Bylines ✍️ Decider, CBR, MTV News, Marvel
Drag 👠 Barb Hardly
I guess I'm in Minneapolis.
https://popheist.com/
brett at popheist dot com
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Brett White
@brettwhite.bsky.social
· Dec 2
Hi. We're Pop Heist. - Pop Heist
Pop culture media is a hellscape. Sites are overrun with intrusive ads, or they’re SEO farms, or they pay writers at near-criminal rates. Some of them pollute the internet with AI-generated garbage, u...
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Welcome to @popheist.com, a new kind of pop culture website that hopefully feels like the classic, beloved kind of pop culture website. We're trying to make things better, more fun, more weird, more challenging, more more more. Join us!
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ALERT: I'm live-skeeting the parade over on @popheist.com this year. Follow along, join in via #Heistgiving!
(Reminder: If you want to support all endeavors related to #Heistgiving, #Heistmas, and even #Heistoween, you can support worker-owned pop culture journalism by subscribing to a paid tier at popheist.com/gift/products)
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November 27, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ALERT: I'm live-skeeting the parade over on @popheist.com this year. Follow along, join in via #Heistgiving!
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Fairmont Crest is a community populated with nurses, lawyers, models, doctors, professional singers, professional schemers, and even an EGOT. Presenting ... the BEYOND THE GATES family tree!
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November 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Fairmont Crest is a community populated with nurses, lawyers, models, doctors, professional singers, professional schemers, and even an EGOT. Presenting ... the BEYOND THE GATES family tree!
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Lost my mind a little
Fairmont Crest is a community populated with nurses, lawyers, models, doctors, professional singers, professional schemers, and even an EGOT. Presenting ... the BEYOND THE GATES family tree!
buff.ly/S37ijY8
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November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Lost my mind a little
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Like last year's Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story is definitely a holiday love story built around a character who is a superfan of the titular football team.
'Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story' Review
Holland Roden and Matthew Daddario star as Bills superfans in this year's 'Holiday Touchdown.' And for real, let's talk football stadiums.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Like last year's Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story is definitely a holiday love story built around a character who is a superfan of the titular football team.
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Erin Krakow stars as Ella Neezer, a full-grown girlboss who's about to learn a lesson from some holiday spirits while en route to Australia. But is CHRISTMAS ABOVE THE CLOUDS worth watching this holiday season?
Hallmark Hit or Miss: 'Christmas Above the Clouds' Review
Erin Krakow stars as Ella Neezer, a full-grown girlboss who's about to learn a lesson from some holiday spirits while en route to Australia.
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November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Erin Krakow stars as Ella Neezer, a full-grown girlboss who's about to learn a lesson from some holiday spirits while en route to Australia. But is CHRISTMAS ABOVE THE CLOUDS worth watching this holiday season?
Lost my mind a little
Fairmont Crest is a community populated with nurses, lawyers, models, doctors, professional singers, professional schemers, and even an EGOT. Presenting ... the BEYOND THE GATES family tree!
buff.ly/S37ijY8
buff.ly/S37ijY8
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Lost my mind a little
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Pop Heist is getting into the live TV commentary business! Join @fuzzytypewriter.bsky.social, @brettwhite.bsky.social, and anyone using the #Heistgiving tag on Thursday morning as they live-skeet the MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE! It's the most unhinged live event of the year!
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Let's Watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade! And Post About It Live! - Pop Heist
Starting a few minutes before 8:30 a.m. Eastern, head over to Bluesky and follow posts tagged #Heistgiving — add your own and join the fun!
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November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Pop Heist is getting into the live TV commentary business! Join @fuzzytypewriter.bsky.social, @brettwhite.bsky.social, and anyone using the #Heistgiving tag on Thursday morning as they live-skeet the MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE! It's the most unhinged live event of the year!
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'Beyond the Gates' is beyond a soap opera. It's an instant classic — and some of the best TV of 2025. @brettwhite.bsky.social has a review-so-far (and a really intense infographic) to get you up to speed — check it out! #btg #beyondthegates
'Beyond the Gates' Family Tree: Who's Who in Fairmont Crest
Fairmont Crest is a community populated with nurses, lawyers, models, doctors, professional singers, professional schemers, and even an EGOT.
popheist.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
'Beyond the Gates' is beyond a soap opera. It's an instant classic — and some of the best TV of 2025. @brettwhite.bsky.social has a review-so-far (and a really intense infographic) to get you up to speed — check it out! #btg #beyondthegates
Why yes, I *did* make a huge 5000x5000 px family tree mapping 40 cast members and their relationships in #BeyondTheGates, THE best TV show of 2025 (as far as I'm concerned)
'Beyond the Gates' is beyond a soap opera. It's an instant classic — and some of the best TV of 2025. @brettwhite.bsky.social has a review-so-far (and a really intense infographic) to get you up to speed — check it out! #btg #beyondthegates
'Beyond the Gates' Family Tree: Who's Who in Fairmont Crest
Fairmont Crest is a community populated with nurses, lawyers, models, doctors, professional singers, professional schemers, and even an EGOT.
popheist.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Why yes, I *did* make a huge 5000x5000 px family tree mapping 40 cast members and their relationships in #BeyondTheGates, THE best TV show of 2025 (as far as I'm concerned)
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"Since the central plot has nothing to do with the Bills, this year's HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN doubles down cameos. Pro football players pop up so frequently, it's like Morgan and Game are playing the Buffalo Bills version of Pokémon Go"
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'Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story' Review
Holland Roden and Matthew Daddario star as Bills superfans in this year's 'Holiday Touchdown.' And for real, let's talk football stadiums.
popheist.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 AM
"Since the central plot has nothing to do with the Bills, this year's HOLIDAY TOUCHDOWN doubles down cameos. Pro football players pop up so frequently, it's like Morgan and Game are playing the Buffalo Bills version of Pokémon Go"
popheist.com/hallmark-hol...
popheist.com/hallmark-hol...
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Charlie Brown (2026)
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Charlie Brown (2026)
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🎸 ALERT 🎲
A new FREAKS & GEEKS recap from @idalupenis.bsky.social is live! 📓
Neal's problems intensify when he befriends a ventriloquist dummy and uses it to read his cheating dad to filth. 🕹️
New recaps drop Fridays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
A new FREAKS & GEEKS recap from @idalupenis.bsky.social is live! 📓
Neal's problems intensify when he befriends a ventriloquist dummy and uses it to read his cheating dad to filth. 🕹️
New recaps drop Fridays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
'Freaks and Geeks' Episode 15 Recap
Neal's problems intensify when he befriends a ventriloquist dummy and uses it to read his cheating dad to filth.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
🎸 ALERT 🎲
A new FREAKS & GEEKS recap from @idalupenis.bsky.social is live! 📓
Neal's problems intensify when he befriends a ventriloquist dummy and uses it to read his cheating dad to filth. 🕹️
New recaps drop Fridays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
A new FREAKS & GEEKS recap from @idalupenis.bsky.social is live! 📓
Neal's problems intensify when he befriends a ventriloquist dummy and uses it to read his cheating dad to filth. 🕹️
New recaps drop Fridays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
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Funny article by me!
This article was written before Pop Heist launched last year but since we didn’t know if we were kicking the site off before of after Thanksgiving, we held it back from going to press. It’s been growing in potency for an entire year!
#goya #blackpaintings #heistgiving
This article was written before Pop Heist launched last year but since we didn’t know if we were kicking the site off before of after Thanksgiving, we held it back from going to press. It’s been growing in potency for an entire year!
#goya #blackpaintings #heistgiving
Let's get #HEISTGIVING started with an important piece of service journalism* from the one and only @ethankaye.bsky.social
*service journalism for those of you who have to invite a lineup of paintings from a deceased artist over to dinner
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*service journalism for those of you who have to invite a lineup of paintings from a deceased artist over to dinner
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Which Goya "Black Paintings" Would Ruin Thanksgiving?
Goya's "Black Paintings" are 14 disturbing oils. They show people sharing meals. We rank the paintings by how much they'd ruin Thanksgiving!
popheist.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Funny article by me!
This article was written before Pop Heist launched last year but since we didn’t know if we were kicking the site off before of after Thanksgiving, we held it back from going to press. It’s been growing in potency for an entire year!
#goya #blackpaintings #heistgiving
This article was written before Pop Heist launched last year but since we didn’t know if we were kicking the site off before of after Thanksgiving, we held it back from going to press. It’s been growing in potency for an entire year!
#goya #blackpaintings #heistgiving
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Thanksgiving is a special time of year for the Belcher family, so @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social's
ranking all of the Bob's Burgers Turkey Day episodes! #Heistgiving
ranking all of the Bob's Burgers Turkey Day episodes! #Heistgiving
'Bob's Burgers' Thanksgiving Episodes, Ranked
Thanksgiving is a special time of year for the Belcher family, so let's rank all of the Bob's Burgers Turkey Day episodes!
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November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thanksgiving is a special time of year for the Belcher family, so @awalrusdarkly.bsky.social's
ranking all of the Bob's Burgers Turkey Day episodes! #Heistgiving
ranking all of the Bob's Burgers Turkey Day episodes! #Heistgiving
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🪵 ALERT 🪵
@seantcollins.com's PRESTIGE PREHISTORY continues with recaps of TWIN PEAKS. 🍩
This is where 'Twin Peaks' goes from weird to Weird, in all its non sequitur, nonlinear surrealist menace. 🔥
New recaps drop Mondays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
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@seantcollins.com's PRESTIGE PREHISTORY continues with recaps of TWIN PEAKS. 🍩
This is where 'Twin Peaks' goes from weird to Weird, in all its non sequitur, nonlinear surrealist menace. 🔥
New recaps drop Mondays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
buff.ly/j3fdIZz
'Twin Peaks' 1x03 Recap: "Zen or the Skill to Catch a Killer"
This is where 'Twin Peaks' goes from weird to Weird, in all its non sequitur, nonlinear surrealist menace.
popheist.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
🪵 ALERT 🪵
@seantcollins.com's PRESTIGE PREHISTORY continues with recaps of TWIN PEAKS. 🍩
This is where 'Twin Peaks' goes from weird to Weird, in all its non sequitur, nonlinear surrealist menace. 🔥
New recaps drop Mondays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
buff.ly/j3fdIZz
@seantcollins.com's PRESTIGE PREHISTORY continues with recaps of TWIN PEAKS. 🍩
This is where 'Twin Peaks' goes from weird to Weird, in all its non sequitur, nonlinear surrealist menace. 🔥
New recaps drop Mondays at 12 AM ET for subscribers 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
buff.ly/j3fdIZz
Oh yes I will be repainting this stranger things van.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Oh yes I will be repainting this stranger things van.
The OG answer? I accidentally conned my way into a job at Wizard magazine.
The current answer? Buy me a drink.
The current answer? Buy me a drink.
November 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The OG answer? I accidentally conned my way into a job at Wizard magazine.
The current answer? Buy me a drink.
The current answer? Buy me a drink.
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I feel like I am in my gofundme era, except I haven't launched a gofundme. Instead, I've been making T-SHIRT DESIGNS on teepublic and praying to the pop culture gods that marvel / gi joe fans will finally stumble across them and i can make money that way.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I feel like I am in my gofundme era, except I haven't launched a gofundme. Instead, I've been making T-SHIRT DESIGNS on teepublic and praying to the pop culture gods that marvel / gi joe fans will finally stumble across them and i can make money that way.
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
I believe I've found a kindred spirit in holiday obsessiveness.
Sat down today and talked about Christmas coverage with Brett and y'all it's gonna be so much fun. Come hang out with us.
Do you support worker-owned businesses? Do you love pop culture journalism? Or just pop culture in general? Do you want to fund some holiday-themed madness? Please consider supporting @popheist.com as a paid subscriber! We need money to make things happen, and we rely on you!
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November 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I believe I've found a kindred spirit in holiday obsessiveness.
No, YOU spent your spare time and a sick day this week recording the ‘80s Cobra Order of Battle cover in Sunbow animation colors.
November 22, 2025 at 4:34 AM
No, YOU spent your spare time and a sick day this week recording the ‘80s Cobra Order of Battle cover in Sunbow animation colors.
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Screaming into void here because I only have 5 followers but it’s worth it to say
“BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER BECAUSE THIS WEBSITE IS A REFRESHING BREAK FROM THE HELLSCAPE OF THE MODERN INTERNET AND ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO RUN IN ARE RAD AS HELL AND DESERVE A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS”
thank you
“BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER BECAUSE THIS WEBSITE IS A REFRESHING BREAK FROM THE HELLSCAPE OF THE MODERN INTERNET AND ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO RUN IN ARE RAD AS HELL AND DESERVE A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS”
thank you
Do you support worker-owned businesses? Do you love pop culture journalism? Or just pop culture in general? Do you want to fund some holiday-themed madness? Please consider supporting @popheist.com as a paid subscriber! We need money to make things happen, and we rely on you!
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November 21, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Screaming into void here because I only have 5 followers but it’s worth it to say
“BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER BECAUSE THIS WEBSITE IS A REFRESHING BREAK FROM THE HELLSCAPE OF THE MODERN INTERNET AND ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO RUN IN ARE RAD AS HELL AND DESERVE A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS”
thank you
“BECOME A PAID SUBSCRIBER BECAUSE THIS WEBSITE IS A REFRESHING BREAK FROM THE HELLSCAPE OF THE MODERN INTERNET AND ALSO THE PEOPLE WHO RUN IN ARE RAD AS HELL AND DESERVE A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS”
thank you
I feel like I am in my gofundme era, except I haven't launched a gofundme. Instead, I've been making T-SHIRT DESIGNS on teepublic and praying to the pop culture gods that marvel / gi joe fans will finally stumble across them and i can make money that way.
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
T-Shirts by brettwhite | TeePublic
Shop t-shirts, phone cases, hoodies, art prints and mugs created by independent artists from around the globe.
www.teepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I feel like I am in my gofundme era, except I haven't launched a gofundme. Instead, I've been making T-SHIRT DESIGNS on teepublic and praying to the pop culture gods that marvel / gi joe fans will finally stumble across them and i can make money that way.
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
Do you support worker-owned businesses? Do you love pop culture journalism? Or just pop culture in general? Do you want to fund some holiday-themed madness? Please consider supporting @popheist.com as a paid subscriber! We need money to make things happen, and we rely on you!
popheist.com/products
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November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Do you support worker-owned businesses? Do you love pop culture journalism? Or just pop culture in general? Do you want to fund some holiday-themed madness? Please consider supporting @popheist.com as a paid subscriber! We need money to make things happen, and we rely on you!
popheist.com/products
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🇨🇦 ALERT 🇨🇦
A new CANADA'S DRAG RACE recap from @brettwhite.bsky.social is live! 🍁
'Canada's Drag Race' kicks off its sixth season with a mega-sized music video and, straight up, one legendary guest judge: Paula Abdul. 🏁
Support Pop Heist by subscribing 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
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A new CANADA'S DRAG RACE recap from @brettwhite.bsky.social is live! 🍁
'Canada's Drag Race' kicks off its sixth season with a mega-sized music video and, straight up, one legendary guest judge: Paula Abdul. 🏁
Support Pop Heist by subscribing 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
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'Canada's Drag Race' 6x01 Recap: "Not Sorry Aboot It"
'Canada's Drag Race' kicks off its sixth season with a mega-sized music video and, straight up, one legendary guest judge: Paula Abdul.
popheist.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
🇨🇦 ALERT 🇨🇦
A new CANADA'S DRAG RACE recap from @brettwhite.bsky.social is live! 🍁
'Canada's Drag Race' kicks off its sixth season with a mega-sized music video and, straight up, one legendary guest judge: Paula Abdul. 🏁
Support Pop Heist by subscribing 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
buff.ly/Il8MGjY
A new CANADA'S DRAG RACE recap from @brettwhite.bsky.social is live! 🍁
'Canada's Drag Race' kicks off its sixth season with a mega-sized music video and, straight up, one legendary guest judge: Paula Abdul. 🏁
Support Pop Heist by subscribing 🔓 $7/mo, $70/year ✉️
buff.ly/Il8MGjY