Please read below for the ones I’ve found, so far:

Error: “The problem of being faster than light is that you can only live in darkness.”

"Problem of" describes the problem as a whole; essentially, the entire thing is one big problem (some examples: the problem of pollution is that more people are getting sick from it).
"Problem with" describes someone's relation to the problem, and how it affects them (some examples: the problem with my car is that I hear funny noises from the engine as I drive on the freeway, and I think I need to get it fixed... or, there is a problem with my manager because she micro-manages everything that I do).
Therefore, the best edit to the originally mentioned sentence should be “The problem with being faster than light is that you can only live in darkness.”

Error: “…and I’m very happy to have been apart of it.”

“Apart” and “A part” are two different meanings, although they sound the same.
“Apart” is an adverb, meaning that two or more people/things are separated by a distance; they are a specified distance from each other, in time or space (example: we now just live 10 minutes apart from each other).
“A part” is a noun, meaning a piece or segment of something such as an object, activity, or period of time, which is a fraction of a whole (example: she is playing a part in the school play).
I notice that so many times, in text, “apart” is used in place if “a part”, and it is so ironic, because they are almost the exact opposite of each other.
In this sentence, the “apart” means that she was not connected/together with the show, however, in reality she was indeed “a part” of the tv show. The person who wrote this text for this E! News post, did so incorrectly.
Therefore, the best edit to the originally mentioned sentence should be “…and I’m very happy to have been a part of it.”

Error: “My son just texted me this, I am going to be sick.”

Two independent clauses (within a sentence) can either be separated by a semi-colon, or a period. In this post, these two clauses are independent, because they can indeed stand alone. It is awkward for two independent clauses to only be separated by a comma, because it affects the clarity and flow of a sentence.
Additionally, there needs to be a preposition, which is used for an expression of direction towards a point, person, place, or thing. In this case, we would use “to” towards the person who was the writer. So instead of “texted me this,” it should be “texted this to me.”
Therefore, the best edit to the originally mentioned sentence should be “My son just texted this to me; I am going to be sick.”

“Your” and “you’re” are two words that are frequently and incorrectly used interchangeably, since they sound identical, when spoken out loud.
“Your” is a possessive adjective used to show ownership; it is not a contraction. “Your” is followed by a noun. “You’re” is a contraction of the two words “you” and “are”.
In this specific sentence (along with the video), it alludes to the fact that this sentence is setting a scene for the person chilling out while wearing a parachute, falling in the air, and eating a banana. So, keeping that in mind, we also notice that the word after “your” (which is “chilling”) is not a noun, but rather a (present continuous) verb. So that tells us that we must use the contraction of the word in question ultimately being “you’re”, or “you are”. We are also adding a comma after “chilling” to both distinguish between the two clauses, and create more clarity.
Therefore, the best edit to the originally mentioned sentence should be “Imagine that you’re chilling, and a banana smacks you in the head.”

Error: “Imagine your chilling…”

Error: “…she never seen him do anything illegal.”

The sentence in question relates to finished actions; these are actions or events that had happened sometime in the past of a person's life.
The exact date or time of the experience isn’t mentioned, and it essentially is still continuing to the present (she hadn’t seen him doing anything illegal in the past, and to this day, she still is continuing to not see him doing anything illegal), which marks it as present perfect simple tense.
“She never seen” is omitting the necessary “have,” which is an auxiliary verb for the present perfect simple tense.
Therefore, the best edit to the originally mentioned sentence should be “…she had never seen him do anything illegal...”

Error: “I can safely say it completely changed Chris and I’s marriage for the better.”

Two different sentences within this sentence; “I can safely say” is one sentence, and “It completely changed Chris and I’s marriage for the better” is another sentence.
From sentence #1, subject is “I” and predicate is “can safely say”
From sentence #2, subject is “It” and predicate is “completely changed Chris and I’s marriage for the better”.
Only one subject is allowed in any sentence, so in sentence #2, since the subject is “It,” then the predicate cannot have a subject. “I” is a subject; it is a personal pronoun which is the one “doing” the verb mentioned in a sentence. Since “It” is the subject, there cannot be another subject, so instead of using “I”, we can change it to “my”.
So the predicate can be changed to either “completely changed the marriage between Chris and me, for the better” or “completely changed my marriage with Chris, for the better.”

Error: “…Him and his father [name] are the doctors behind the viral “mewing” technique.”

Every sentence needs a subject. In this sentence, two doctors (a son and the father) are both the subject. A third person pronoun (of his son) is “he”. Therefore, the subject in this sentence should be “He and his father”.
'Him' is an object pronoun that is used as the object of a verb or preposition in a sentence. It is used to refer to a male person who is the recipient of an action or the object of a preposition.
“He is the doctor behind…” or 2.) “Him is the doctor behind…” Yep, you got it – the answer is number 1.). So, in the original sentence, use “He” (instead of “Him”) 😊
Therefore, the best edit to the originally mentioned sentence should be “…he and his father...”

Error: “If the subjects you cover in school aren’t exciting to you, find ways to get involved in things that are.”

A sentence cannot be composed of two dependent clauses. However, the two clauses of this “sentence” are both dependent; “If the subjects you cover in school aren’t exciting to you” and “find ways to get involved in things that are” each cannot stand alone.
“That” is used as a conjunction to link a verb, adjective or noun with the following clause. In this “sentence”, there is no text following the words “that are”, so it is not specifically clear as far as what is the context of “that are”.
We are left to assume that the “that are” is related to the noun of the previous clause, which was “unexciting school subjects”.
However, to be grammatically correct and very clear to all of the readers, we must end the second clause with the noun (exciting to you).
Therefore, the best edit to the originally mentioned sentence should be “…find ways to get involved in things that are exciting to you.”

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