What’s Trending: Would you work during the holidays for cats & cash or listen to your afterlife playlist?

A man in Shanghai has gone viral after reportedly earning around 160,000 yuan during the Chinese New Year period just by feeding cats. Instead of travelling for the holidays, he stayed behind and helped care for pets while their owners were away, visiting hundreds of homes to feed cats and check on them.

Meanwhile, Spotify has teamed up with beverage brand Liquid Death to create the “Eternal Playlist Urn.” It’s a cremation urn with a Bluetooth speaker in the lid, allowing your favourite songs to keep playing even after you’re gone. Only 150 units were made, and they sold out quickly.

On What’s Trending, Hongbin Jeong and Alexandra Parada break down these two unusual stories.

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