The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 7, 2025)

The clock app has been around for long enough that it has had an impact on all those who are chronically online enough at this point, whether they are constantly referring to their For You page or they can’t think of a worse way to pass the time. Whether you are willing to appreciate it …
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‘I think I just hate working’: Gen Z prompts sympathy after crashing out about working 8 to 5 job

Kim Kardashian raised eyebrows only a few short years ago when she declared that «nobody wants to work». For all she may have been hypocritical, many would argue that she wasn’t wrong. This isn’t just the out-of-touch boomers complaining that the younger generations refuse to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but also a large …
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‘Grannies getting edgy’: Why older generations are finally getting that tattoo or piercing they always wanted

Tattoo parlors used to be reserved for bikers, gang members, and sailors at port, but that’s no longer the case. Body modification shops have changed so much over the last 30 years that older generations wouldn’t even recognize an average tattoo parlor. More sterile than a doctor’s office, smelling like fresh candles, and flaunting a …
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Fight, Flight, or Freeze: Why the “Gen Z stare” isn’t bad customer service, it’s social evolution

Awkward silences make most people uncomfortable, but Gen Z is just built different. Born through an era of exponential social media changes, global chaos, and shifting communication connectivity, Gen Z has evolved beyond social pleasantries. In their experience, there’s simply no point. In fact, as a generation focused on «real» interactions and significant relationships, Gen …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 5, 2025)

For most of this decade, it has become increasingly hard to keep up with the times as we know them without in some way being connected to TikTok. This isn’t necessarily a positive development, but it has brought us the entertaining side effect of more and more people deciding to become TikTokers. It has given …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 29, 2025)

In this day and age, if there wasn’t an account of something on TikTok, did it even happen at all? It feels like the clock app is the new rite of passage for every news story, viral moment, and wannabe celebrity. It is living proof that social media has a big say in society today, …
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Porcelain Safehouse: How ‘bathroom camping’ became Gen Z’s mental health break in the workplace

You’ve only just walked into the office and your boss is already on your back about next month’s deadlines. The chattering voices of your coworkers waft over the cubicles, and the tinnitus in your ears rings over your manager’s muffled nagging. Your aching mind wonders how, after six months, you’re still juggling three specialized office …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 22, 2025)

It is pretty undeniable that Vine helped to pave the way for TikTok, but considering this, it is interesting to see how many differences there are between them. Famously, there was a six-second time limit to Vine, whereas nowadays, a TikTok can be up to thirty minutes in length. Vines focused on goofy humor, whereas …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 15, 2025)

A TikToker is, in many ways, simply an amalgamation of all the other kinds of influencers and sh*tposters that came before them. They simultaneously overshare while airbrushing their lives into the kind of thing that other people might find aspirational, and more often than not, will say and do far-fetched or dubious things for clout. …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 8, 2025)

Second to the booming business of so-called large language models, TikTok has increasingly become a place that people turn to for knowledge and advice. It is debatable whether this is any better than taking guidance from a robot, what with the general hysteria and misinformation we run into in most types of social media, but …
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