‘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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‘God bless her now cleared nasal passages’: Brits react to American chef trying English mustard

For all the controversies surrounding traditional British cuisine, there is usually one thing that most can agree on: it’s not a place where you will find a lot of spice. This is a slight misconception. While it’s true that you aren’t going to find a chili kick in fish and chips, there are certain condiments …
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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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‘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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‘Love traveling for free’: Miami vacationer claims she sleeps on the beach instead of paying for a hotel

Traveling is a great experience in a lot of ways, but the price tag attached is less so. Airline companies are forever finding new ways to charge more for even less legroom, and tourist traps don’t hesitate to charge their clientele accordingly. Also, slumming it in a questionable hostel is not for everybody — and …
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‘This is a travesty’: British Karen rails against iconic candy changing its wrappers, entertains the internet

Change is rarely an easy thing to go through. People come and go, lessons get learned, and brands radically change their branding without even consulting us first. As we get older, it’s just one assault after another when it comes to living through more and more of these scary and confusing times and confectionary companies …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 9, 2024)

Welcome back or just plain welcome to TikTok’s enthusiasts, detractors, and those who continue to be bewildered by the way it affects the youth and general population today. As someone who has watched the rise of TikTok for years now, I find myself in all of these roles at different times. I exist as a …
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‘Liz has a whole Facebook group’: Board game lovers reveal the joy of ‘subjective Guess Who’

The only thing more fun than playing games is making up your own dumb rules for playing games. Sorry, sticklers for the rules, but some really are meant to be broken. I’m not saying that every board game deserves to have its premise completely upended, but a few big names can benefit from having an …
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