WTF Happened January 2026

Death by ICE... and cold weather! Canada store hijacked! Smart LEGOs!

This is the first WTF Happened recap article of 2026 but also the second article to appear on the new WTFHappened.net website. These recap articles are a short highlight reel of what happened in a specific period of time, in this case, the month of January 2026. It is now February, and I realize this could come across as late news, but this site is not about chasing headlines; WTF Happened is all about archiving interesting things about the recent past and on occasion, the not-so-recent past. Without further ado...

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WTF Happened November 2025

Don't mind the shutdown, government's fine. MrBeast Land is a thing now.

On November 12, the longest United States government shutdown ended. We broke the record by 8 days with this shutdown lasting 43 days! MrBeast opened his first theme park and announced a contest to win money in the local currency because of course he did.

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WTF Happened October 2025

Happy Halloween!

AWS, Amazon Web Services, went down for half a day and half the internet went down with it! A huge solar project was wasted! Emiru was force-hugged! Hazbin Hotel season 2! WTF Happened domain secured and so much else! This is the October 2025 edition of WTF Happened!

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WTF Happened September 2025

Student loans suck, but these video games are amazing....

Between U.S. student loans being worse than ever and new laws making the internet worse, we also got some of the most obscenely beautiful video games ever....

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