‘Seeing if my 94 month old son still does the newborn scrunch’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (April 23, 2024)

It’s kind of strange how people acted like TikTok was some kind of anomaly when it first became popular. In a lot of ways, it’s just a convoluted mix of many platforms that came before it—Vine and YouTube in the format, with Twitter, Tumblr, and even Reddit influencing the content.  It goes without saying that …
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‘What do y’all kids know about Crazy Frog’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (April 16, 2024)

For all that it can feel this way, the internet is not forever. The infrastructure on which it is built is so varied and sprawling that there is every chance that something will happen in the future that will cause its massive reservoir of information to be lost, meaning that we could currently be living …
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‘And that’s on magnitude’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (April 9, 2024)

There was a time when not everything on the internet desperately needed to entertain us. Some places were simply here to inform or give us the news with a minimum of messing around (or at least, that’s what a lot of people used it for). Then TikTok came along and changed all that. Now, everywhere …
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20+ Ridiculous Recipe Substitutions and Comments That Didn’t Cook Up a Feast

Getting the right groceries can be a drag for anybody who is a somewhat adventurous chef. When you’re trying to cook up something delicious from a recipe that you found on the internet, there is every chance that what Ms. Perfect Food Blogger considers a pantry staple is most normal peoples’ idea of an arduous …
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‘Bro driving a school desk’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (April 2, 2024)

 It’s kind of crazy to think that when people in the future look back on this period of history, TikTok will likely play a dominant role. It can’t be overstated how much it contributes to the cultural conversation and swallows up the free time of millions.  Maybe you’re OK with this, find it amusing even, …
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‘Practicing the walk to my new job on Google Maps’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (March 26, 2024)

Every half a generation or so, the internet gets redefined by a meme-adjacent way of sharing thoughts, jokes, and opinions on the internet. The late 2000s had Impact font Advice Animals, then the early to mid-2010s was dominated by Twitter screenshots. Whisper had a brief moment a few years back, and now we are undoubtedly …
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20+ Smug Claims and Insufferable Humblebrags From Venture Capitalists

It pains me to say it, but self-promotion is a necessary thing sometimes. We would never get where we wanted to be if we weren’t our own biggest cheerleader every so often. At the same time, it is a skill to do it in a way that is not a. nakedly self-serving and b. cringe.  …
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‘A woman said if I gave her regular instead of decaf she was gonna make a voodoo doll of me’: 20+ Service workers reveal their worst customer horror stories

One thing I remain eternally grateful for is that I don’t currently have a job where I have to interact with the general public. Don’t get me wrong, such roles are totally necessary and can even be genuinely rewarding in the right circumstances. At the same time, though, nothing will make you into a misanthrope …
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20+ Mildly Infuriating Things That Are Unquestionably Irritating

Being annoyed is a terrible feeling to have. It implies that your peace has been disrupted, but so drastically that you get to have a big, movie-score-appropriate emotion like anger or sadness. Your natural order of things has been disrupted, but if you point it out there’s a chance you come across as peevish and …
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‘Dune is about the dangers of Boy Moms™’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (March 19, 2024)

Who knows how we got here, but we are somehow in a position where a not insignificant portion of the cultural climate is dictated by an app that began as a place for teenagers to do ridiculous little dances. Sure, it is meant to be in danger of being banned in the US but when …
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