The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (May 28, 2024)

When we look back on the cultural moment that is Gen Z, one of the first things that will spring to mind is TikTok. It cannot be denied that one of the dubious delights of the clock app has been the ways in which it has both shaped and given an insight into the minds …
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Wildest Posts From the Depths of Facebook (May 25, 2024)

If you’re plugged into this kind of thing, you may have heard rumblings recently about another dubious accolade that Facebook has brought upon itself. According to some social media nerds, it is at the forefront of proving dead internet theory. This is the idea that most of the internet is now bot activity, encouraged by …
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The Most Entertaining Reddit Posts of the Week (May 24, 2024)

While it is true that every major social media platform has a grand variety of things to offer, it’s hard to get past the sheer randomness of things that we can find on Reddit. That place will advise, entertain, and bamboozle you all in one visit, and sometimes even give you something that makes you …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (21 May, 2024)

It’s time to face the fact that it has been a darned long time since TikTok was exclusively a young people app. On some For You pages, it can seem like the boomers are even more in love with the whole concept than their grandkids are. One of the most important points of TikTok’s ongoing …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (May 14, 2024)

It’s kind of crazy to think that one day, a large swathe of the population woke up and decided that there are very few boundaries as to what you should and shouldn’t post on the internet. Baring your soul for thousands or millions of views is good, actually. Social media had always been a personal …
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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (May 13, 2024)

Parents will do all sorts of things to make sure their kids succeed. I understand moving to an area with a good school district or paying for SAT tutoring, but some parents take it too far. I know kids who were held back in elementary school so that they could be older than everyone in …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (May 7, 2024)

For all that people used to treat it as a wild and novel invention, the formula of TikTok’s success only follows the many platforms that came before it. Many of its users mix candid revelations about their own lives with a very specific blend of social media showmanship that proves so addictive to viewers that …
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20 Ridiculous Gatekeepers Who Don’t Want People to Like Stuff

I would like to think that I’m not a gatekeeper. If a niche band I like blows up, I’m happy that they have been given another reason to keep on making music, and if a bar or cafe I frequent suddenly gets a lot more business, it’s heartwarming to see their hard work paying off …
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‘I proposed [and] here’s what I learned about B2B sales’: Linkedin lunatic uses a marriage proposal as a business lesson online, cringe ensues

Marriage proposals are usually deeply personal, cute, thoughtful, and ultimately a declaration of your love for your partner. Wouldn’t any girl would be elated if their LinkedIn Lunatic boyfriend decided to turn this intimate, loving moment into a lesson on B2B sales profitability online? Although it sounds like a total troll, this actually happened to …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 30, 2024)

Well, it’s official. After what seems like a lifetime of umming and ahhhing on the topic of whether TikTok should be allowed to rampage unabated through the land of the free, President Biden has signed into law that parent company ByteDance has a matter of months to sell up or get their influential app banned …
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