Brett White
@brettwhite.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief 💎 Pop Heist
Bylines ✍️ Decider, CBR, MTV News, Marvel
Drag 👠 Barb Hardly
I guess I'm moving to Minneapolis?
https://popheist.com/
brett at popheist dot com
Bylines ✍️ Decider, CBR, MTV News, Marvel
Drag 👠 Barb Hardly
I guess I'm moving to Minneapolis?
https://popheist.com/
brett at popheist dot com
Pinned
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...
popheist.com
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!
popheist.com/about-us
popheist.com/about-us
Reposted by Brett White
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!
buff.ly/B0gW95S
buff.ly/B0gW95S
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!
popheist.com
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!
buff.ly/B0gW95S
buff.ly/B0gW95S
Reposted by Brett White
'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)
Reposted by Brett White
"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...
'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...
Reposted by Brett White
Charlie Brown (2026)
November 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Charlie Brown (2026)
Reposted by Brett White
🎸 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.
buff.ly
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 ✉️
Reposted by Brett White
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
buff.ly/1uCoefm
*service journalism for those of you who have to invite a lineup of paintings from a deceased artist over to dinner
buff.ly/1uCoefm
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
Reposted by Brett White
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!
buff.ly
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
Reposted by Brett White
🪵 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
'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.
Reposted by Brett White
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...
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!
popheist.com/products
popheist.com/products
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.
Reposted by Brett White
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!
popheist.com/products
popheist.com/products
Pop Heist | Products
popheist.com
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
popheist.com/products
Pop Heist | Products
popheist.com
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
popheist.com/products
Reposted by Brett White
🇨🇦 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
'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
Reposted by Brett White
"A KELLER CHRISTMAS VACATION is a winner through sheer force of personality alone. Putting heavy hitters like Routh, Bennett, and Sher in one movie together, it's almost a guaranteed success. The three of them have such natural sibling chemistry, which is hard to fake."
popheist.com/hallmark-hit...
popheist.com/hallmark-hit...
Hallmark Hit or Miss: 'A Keller Christmas Vacation' Charts New Holiday Movie Territory - Pop Heist
Brandon Routh, Jonathan Bennett, and Eden Sher play siblings in this quirky, comical, and sentimental holiday travel movie.
popheist.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"A KELLER CHRISTMAS VACATION is a winner through sheer force of personality alone. Putting heavy hitters like Routh, Bennett, and Sher in one movie together, it's almost a guaranteed success. The three of them have such natural sibling chemistry, which is hard to fake."
popheist.com/hallmark-hit...
popheist.com/hallmark-hit...
Reposted by Brett White
I bothered Brett and he came up with some great Mantlo-era Alpha Flight designs. And of course I’ve already ordered one of each! Can’t wait to show them off to you all when they get here- which can’t be soon enough!
#AlphaFlight
#AlphaFlight
New lineup of late 80s Alpha Flight shirt designs, including my first ever front and back design
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I bothered Brett and he came up with some great Mantlo-era Alpha Flight designs. And of course I’ve already ordered one of each! Can’t wait to show them off to you all when they get here- which can’t be soon enough!
#AlphaFlight
#AlphaFlight
New lineup of late 80s Alpha Flight shirt designs, including my first ever front and back design
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
November 19, 2025 at 11:55 PM
New lineup of late 80s Alpha Flight shirt designs, including my first ever front and back design
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
Reposted by Brett White
#JoeVember2025 Day 9: Strike A Pose
C'mon — you can't give a gay GI Joe fan the prompt "strike a pose" and *not* expect a recreation of the "Paris Is Burning" poster using some of the gayest, most queer-coded characters.
C'mon — you can't give a gay GI Joe fan the prompt "strike a pose" and *not* expect a recreation of the "Paris Is Burning" poster using some of the gayest, most queer-coded characters.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
#JoeVember2025 Day 9: Strike A Pose
C'mon — you can't give a gay GI Joe fan the prompt "strike a pose" and *not* expect a recreation of the "Paris Is Burning" poster using some of the gayest, most queer-coded characters.
C'mon — you can't give a gay GI Joe fan the prompt "strike a pose" and *not* expect a recreation of the "Paris Is Burning" poster using some of the gayest, most queer-coded characters.
Working on my third HALLMARK HIT OR MISS in anticipation of this event.
You can read the first one now: popheist.com/three-wisest...
You can read the first one now: popheist.com/three-wisest...
November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Working on my third HALLMARK HIT OR MISS in anticipation of this event.
You can read the first one now: popheist.com/three-wisest...
You can read the first one now: popheist.com/three-wisest...
Instead of coming here to "engage in the discourse" or whatever, I will come here to plug my GI Joe TeePublic designs, because I ... need income and this feels more likely to yield results than journalism lol
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
November 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Instead of coming here to "engage in the discourse" or whatever, I will come here to plug my GI Joe TeePublic designs, because I ... need income and this feels more likely to yield results than journalism lol
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...
www.teepublic.com/user/brettwh...