timo, nuzzi, bubba, ackman

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Polygon has some big news this week!

This newsletter is going to serve as a bit of a 101 on what happened on the internet this week, because let me tell you, it was plentiful.

First up, my personal favorite. Timothée Chalamet took over the timeline to promote his upcoming film Marty Supreme.

It started with an 18-minute video he posted on Instagram and Twitter that looks like an internal Zoom meeting with him and a group of A24 creative executives brainstorming marketing tactics for the film. It quickly becomes clear that it’s performance art, I’m watching the whole thing, and we’re about to witness a god-tier run-up to an Oscar.

The stunt caught like wildfire. Screenshots from the video took on a life of their own, the merch from the movie became coveted, and many of the absurd marketing strategies discussed in the video ended up taking shape in one way or another.

Okay, up next, Olivia Nuzzi. The writer and editor known for her political coverage has found herself in the spotlight again. Last year, New York Magazine put her on leave after it came out that she was having an emotional and sexting (tough) relationship with then–presidential candidate RFK Jr.

She bounced back with a job at Vanity Fair, a book deal, and a New York Times profile that was met with mixed reception.

This week, two things got her all up and down the timeline again. First, excerpts from her upcoming book American Canto were released, and it appears she’s going to tell all with it. She doesn’t name RFK Jr. specifically, but refers to “the Politician” throughout.

This caused her ex-fiancé, Ryan Lizza, to release a self-published essay titled Part 1: How I Found Out, where he claims that Nuzzi also had an affair with Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and long-shot presidential candidate, when she profiled him for NYMag.

He also claimed that she had an inappropriate financial relationship with journalist and political commentator Keith Olbermann. Anywayyyyyyy, let’s just say things are messy and the tweets are excellent.

Next in politicians who are having sex with people they shouldn’t. Last week, in a leaked email from 2018, Epstein asked his brother if Putin had the photos of Trump giving someone named Bubba a bl*wjob.

Bubba is rumored to be Bill Clinton. You truly can not make this stuff up.

The White House then went on a low-key PR recovery mission that got them ratioed to filth.

And last but not least in this week’s timeline roundup, billionaire Bill Ackman gave some dating advice to young men.

His take was basically that it’s not that hard, just walk up to women and say, “May I meet you?”

There are some important supporting factors as to how and why this tactic might have worked for him.

As you can imagine, may I meet you has now gone down in Twitter canon, joining the likes of everything is computer and Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

Well, there you have it, a chic week on the internet.