The ‘Da Vinki Twins’ Are the Only Good Influencers On the Internet

When two cartoonish-looking blonde twins on TikTok answered the question «Who painted the Mona Lisa?» with «Da Vinki?» The internet was quick to embrace them as a punchline with their absurd mispronunciation of the famous Italian master, Leonardo da Vinci. «Da Vinki» became the earworm meme of the moment. It could be heard across the …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (June 24, 2025)

Whether any of us like it or not, TikTok has long been shaping up to be one of the defining features of the 2020s (at least in the decade’s early years). It has played a major role in normalizing internet oversharing, turning influencer culture into a legitimate career path, and introducing euphemisms like «grape» into …
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‘Did he drive you back from the hospital?’: Mom shares a video of her huge 1-year-old baby, resulting in a series of hilarious responses from shocked observers

Sharing details about your personal life with strangers on the internet never turns out the way you expect it to. You may share something you find adorable, only to learn that others see it as disturbing, or you can share something that angers you, only to have complete strangers tell you that you are overreacting.  …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 15, 2025)

It is not like we needed another app to waste away our days with that continually sold us stuff and quite possibly spied on us, but TikTok boldly rushed in at the end of the last decade to fill that very narrow gap anyway. The rest, as they like to say, is history: no longer …
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‘Heaven is a spotless kitchen with a perpetually restocked fridge’: In a chaotic world, cleaning videos give us a sense of control over our lives

Creators online have built careers filming a simple household task: Cleaning. As viewers, we spend countless minutes watching rugs be vacuumed, toilet bowls drowned in a rainbow of products, and even women reviving old, neglected gravestones. The internet has long celebrated the mundane, but cleaning videos have an especially soothing effect for some viewers. This …
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The TikTok ban is bringing people all over the world together as people reminisce on the downfall of MySpace, Tumblr, and Vine: ‘I’ve played these games before!’

It was a cold winter morning in January of 2017. The gray overcast skies reflected the reality of social media as we knew it: Vine is gone. What was once a hub for six-second momentary ha-ha’s was now a graveyard for all of our favorite comedians. The last remnants of Vine would be stuck in …
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The tease of a potential TikTok ban is bringing people all over the world together as people reminisce on the downfall of MySpace, Tumblr, and Vine: ‘I’ve played these games before!’

It was a cold winter morning in January of 2017. The gray overcast skies reflected the reality of social media as we knew it: Vine is gone. What was once a hub for six-second momentary ha-ha’s was now a graveyard for all of our favorite comedians. The last remnants of Vine would be stuck in …
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The Funniest TikTok Ban Memes from the Shortest-Lived Hysteria in Internet History

The last two days for TikTok users (and all over social media, actually) have been a crazy ride. We went from accepting the ban we have been dreading for weeks, to saying tearful goodbyes, to a weird 12-hour silence, to a new kind of chaos once the ban was lifted. Right before the ban, TikTok …
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Millennial house flippers on TikTok are determined to transform vintage homes into Hampton Inn lobbies and Gen Z are furious

Welcome to the dark side of millennial home renovations: Enterprising young homeowners splash white or gray paint over cabinets and walls, stick on vinyl flooring, and mercilessly chuck out anything eccentric they might have inherited. Scary, right?  Some compare it to the design crazes of the 70s, when suburbanites covered their gorgeous hardwood floors with …
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The TikTok shop has ruined TikTok: From short-form comedy clips to an e-commerce abyss, TikTok proves that consumerism will always be on top

There’s no doubt that TikTok is one of the most used social media platforms of this decade. Most memes and popular trends of the 2020s originate from the app, proving that the influence of its users is nothing short of monumental. With 1.9 billion registered users globally, we’re sure you, your children, and your children’s …
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