‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘Life would be much easier if I was an evil wizard’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (March 5, 2024)

Remember back in the heady days of the mid-2010s when some people thought that internet humor couldn’t get any weirder? We had Dat Boi, the craziness of Vine, and deep-fried memes! Surely it couldn’t get any more postmodern! Well, everyone who thought that was wrong. TikTok came along and put our irony-poisoned brains in a …
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‘I can’t figure out if there’s 365 birthdays or 8 billion birthdays’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (February 27, 2024)

Rumor has it if you say ‘TikTok’ into the mirror three times on a full moon, Reesa Teesa appears and gives you an exclusive epilogue to Who TF Did I Marry?. OK, so maybe that isn’t true, but I wouldn’t put it past some clout-hungry user of the clock app to make an overdramatic video …
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