‘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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‘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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The Wildest Parenting Posts of the Week (April 8, 2024)

I learn so many new things about parenting by looking at parenting fails. While some aspects of parenting are intuitive, there are about a million things that you need to learn about child-rearing before you actually have a baby. For instance, I was completely ignorant about bed-sharing and safe sleep until I started willingly exposing …
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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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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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