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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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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Wildest Posts From the Depths of Facebook (April 27, 2024)
You may have seen that somebody edited a beard onto Mark Zuckerberg recently. Although it was fake, the general consensus seemed to be that it was a welcome improvement on the Zucc’s infamously uncanny valley face. It even led the man himself to ponder whether it was time for a makeover, ushering in a new …
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‘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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‘How do you get Tetris out of your head?’: The funniest Reddit posts of the week (April 19, 2024)
In this troubled age of the internet where every other platform seems to be going to the dogs, Reddit continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. From life hacks that deal with pretty much every topic under the sun to the kind of nail-biting drama that a week’s worth of discourse is made …
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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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20+ Bizarre Dating App Prompts That Probably Didn’t Lead to Love
Hinge has made a name for itself by claiming that it is the dating app that is «designed to be deleted». This has an element of truth to it, but not all its users are taking it off their phones because they’ve found love. In fact, many of them are doing this because they just …
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