‘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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The Most Entertaining Parenting Posts of the Week (April 1, 2024)

Happy April Fools Day, parents and non-parents alike! I’ve got to say, I feel like April Fools Day is an underrated holiday that’s way more fun when you have kids. Some kids might be on high alert all day, making sure that they don’t get pranked. For others, it’s extremely easy to tell them that …
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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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The Funniest Tweets of the Week That Made Us Willfully Cringe (March 22, 2024)

Tweets so funny that they’ll make you roll your eyes. 

‘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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The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (March 18, 2024)

There is this weird parenting trend that I’ve been so baffled by when I’ve seen it on TikTok. I’m sure you’ve heard of parents deciding to never say «no» to their children but rather redirecting them towards the results that they (the parents) want. For example, when your child says, «Can I stick this fork …
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‘To be cringe is to be free’: 20+ Best Memes and Tweets of the Week That Had Us Shaking

Shaking with laughter that is.

‘Imagine being pressed by Pride’: Bigoted man gets roasted for refusing to walk on ‘woke’ pride flag stairs

I find it amazing the lengths that some people will go to in an attempt to affirm their heterosexuality. You might think the most effective way of doing this is to act resolutely unbothered by all things LGBTQIA+, but not everyone seems to think this is the case.  It’s a dumb mindset, but sometimes it …
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‘Cancelling dates bc I think it’s better I stay a vague concept’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (March 12, 2024)

On the surface, you might not think that there are all that many similarities between TikTok and Reddit, apart from the fact that users on the former love to steal stories from the latter and get an AI voice to read them over a game of Subway Surfers.  However, one trait that they do share …
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