The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 19, 2023)

While I wouldn’t say that I’m ancient, I have much more potent memories of when Ke$ha party anythem TiK ToK was on the Billboard Hot 100 than when the social media platform commandeered the same name and started getting big. Nonetheless, I was still somehow part of the target audience. We have a tendency to …
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The Cringiest Dating App Encounters This Week (September 13, 2023)

I find that there are few things more humbling than spending a small amount of time on a dating app. You try to go into the whole thing being confident about yourself — you might be no match for the catfishes and the Instagram models, but the pictures on your profile are flattering. You can …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 12, 2023)

When you have had an internet addiction for long enough, there comes a point when you don’t want to keep up to date with the latest platform or innovation. This is how many people felt when TikTok started getting big, myself included.  At the same time, this kind of thing often reaches a level of …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 5, 2023)

In the best possible way, TikTok is the definition of inanity. There are few other places where you get to see a pasta recipe, a faultless sorority dance routine, and a dude joyously celebrating that a public faucet works in the space of three minutes. The only real objective of all these videos is to …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 29, 2023)

I know there are plenty of bad things to say about TikTok, but I feel like we have to look at its positive sides occasionally. It is a great document of the ways in which people are willing to stretch themselves creatively, and the way they’ve built an interesting online presence as a result. It’s …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 22, 2023)

Since the dawn of the internet, people have been using it as an outlet for their most deranged and attention seeking impulses. It’s only recently that this has become a truly competitive sport.  Part of the reason for this is a little app named TikTok, which has 117 million users in the US alone. Everyone …
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Extracts From Wikipedia That Are Both Charming and Strange

In my humble opinion, one of the best things about the internet is how it allows us to know stuff. While it’s almost as easy to fall down a deranged conspiracy rabbit hole as it is to find out useful information, the risk is sometimes part of the fun. When it comes to knowledge, the …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 25, 2023)

Perhaps it’s just a sign that I’m old and irrelevant, but I don’t understand what possesses those who become active TikTokers. The risk to reward ratio seems low, especially if you’re always showing your face and spouting your opinions. By and large, viral fame isn’t that fun, and only the crème de la crème of …
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20+ Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 18, 2023)

TikTok has seen even more discussion around it than usual lately. The cause of this is both bizarre and something that we couldn’t imagine happening on any other social media platform: it’s the about creators who make money by pretending to be NPCs on livestream. What was once a niche interest has now become a …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 11, 2023)

TikTok is an outlier in the social media landscape in many ways, and one of those is how it gets remembered. Most of us with terminally internet-poisoned brains can easily recall our all-time favorite tweets, for example, or the greatest Vines. When it comes to the best singular TikToks, though, it’s a lot more difficult …
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