I know that most of us enjoy decrying social media as the downfall of humanity from time to time, but I don’t think we should lose sight of its upsides. TikTok is a perfect example of this mixed offering. On the one hand, it is taking a sledgehammer to our already fragile attention spans and …
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‘You don’t look French’: The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 26, 2023)
I’ll be honest, a few years ago I thought that the internet had probably leveled out in terms of how addictive it was. There were just so many different sites, apps, and distractions that it seemed impossible for its time-wasting potential to expand even more than it already had. You know what comes next: I …
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‘I sentence you to eating without YouTube’: The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 19, 2023)
Call me old-fashioned, but I really don’t enjoy the process of filming myself. I can just about cope with the occasional selfie, but you won’t find me whacking out the front camera to give an extended dialogue any time soon. I get self-conscious in a Zoom meeting, for God’s sake. Who knows what it would …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 12, 2023)
You don’t see so many people boasting about never having downloaded TikTok these days. This isn’t necessarily because they’ve caved, but it is possibly due to the fact that the clock app has managed to get its tendrils around all these other places on the internet. Every other platform insists on doing short form video, …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 5, 2023)
It’s easy to think it’s a pretty smooth ride being a TikTok influencer. I mean, what do they actually do aside from use trending sounds, steal tweets to make into their own video posts, and do #ads for things that you can find on the TikTok shop? There is probably a lot more to it …
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20 Google Maps Oddities and Glitches That Show the World is a Fascinating Place
If I found myself in some farfetched hypothetical situation where I had to choose only a couple of apps to keep on my phone, Google Maps would be one of them. I have a propensity for getting lost that makes it nothing short of a necessity (I would not have survived adulthood in the analog …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 28, 2023)
Something I find fascinating is how TikTok seems to be morphing slowly into YouTube. It was confirmed that the platform was experimenting with allowing some users to upload 15 minute videos last month. It started off with a time limit of 15 seconds! Also, a lot of people find that their FYP occasionally serves up …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 21, 2023)
If there is any common saying that I think suits TikTok, it is that the world would be a very dull place if we were all the same. While this may be the app that pioneered the idea that none of us have ever had a unique experience, it seems to do a pretty good …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 14, 2023)
The success of TikTok over the past half a decade is far from a mystery. It combines many of the contemporary internet’s favorite things: attention seeking, dumb arguments, and most importantly of all, easily accessible and digestible Content. Many a TikTok naysayer has been reluctantly won over by finally opening the app and immediately going …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 7, 2023)
Do you ever think about how in just a few short years, it’s become normal behavior — encouraged, even — to start recording with our front cameras and tell the world about the most intimate details of our life? While it didn’t come out of nowhere, it can occasionally seem that way. At least we …
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