TikTok will leave a legacy for many reasons, but one of its most impactful is how it cemented the idea that pretty much anybody can make themselves into a somebody on the internet. While it is true that this had already been established on the likes of YouTube and Twitter, the clock app just made …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 15, 2024)
When it comes to trying to explain why TikTok has been such a runaway success, many like to point towards its nefariously adaptable algorithm that often seems to read your mind as it adapts the FYP to your exact interests and tastes. There is no denying that it is a big factor, but there are …
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20 Posts Attempting to Be Deep in Ways Even a 14-year-old Would Cringe At
As the late, great Sinead O’Connor once said, it is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. It is normal, good even, to question why things are the way they are and whether they could be better. By the same token, social media is rife with cringeworthy spectacles that seem …
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‘Reconnecting with nature after applying to entry level jobs that require 15 years experience’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (October 8, 2024)
What shall we do the day that TikTok disappears from this earth? Pandora’s box has now been open for a long time, and it is hard to imagine that people will be happy to go back to a time when people thought twice about sharing their life’s greatest dramas and punchlines along with their faces …
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Man gets romantically rejected by woman and told that she wishes she met him 3 years later, faces further rejection when he checks up on her then: ‘At least do some due diligence first’
If there is one valuable thing that anyone should learn from a romantic misadventure, it’s that most relationships that don’t work out the first time probably aren’t going to be much better when you try them again. Sure, there are the Ben Afflecks and J.Los of the world for whom the ups and downs of …
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‘Spent $150 on groceries and I still need $150 worth of groceries’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (September 24, 2024)
The psyche of the average person who posts regularly on TikTok must be a fascinating thing. Exchanging your story, your deepest held secrets, your most shameful thought processes in exchange for virality—it’s nothing new, but was it ever this popular and widely accepted? TikTok is in part so popular as it is a continuation of …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 10, 2024)
There are only a few things that you need to be a somewhat successful TikToker: a phone, a can-do attitude, and the opportunity to be smiled upon by the algorithmic gods. While social media has always had at least the outward appearance of being democratic, it is the clock app that has really hammered home …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 3, 2024)
There is a saying that many TikTok users like to deploy in the comment section when their For You Page serves them up a particularly strange, cringey, or otherwise unexpected video: «I built this FYP brick by brick». It’s an acknowledgment that, for better or worse, a lot of us terminally online scrollers engage with …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 27, 2024)
Modern life can be mentally exhausting, and one of the reasons for that is that we are constantly bombarded with just how much stuff there is in the world. As soon as you go on social media you open yourself up to an intensely distracting but also overwhelming world of possibility. A big part of …
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A Conventions Worth of the Funniest Memes and Tweets from the 2024 DNC, So Far
The Dems have finally turned up the theatrics and we are here for it.