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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There Are Too Many ‘Man-On-the-Street’ Interviewers On Social Media and They’re Only Getting Worse
You’re walking down the street and enjoying your day. You have your headphones on and you’re running late to work. Out of nowhere, someone stops you. You don’t have time to sign a petition or pledge money to Greenpeace, but what’s this? They’re using a lav mic and someone is holding an iPhone nearby. Oh …
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‘Yogurt dipped Pringles’: A subreddit encouraging terrible home cooked meals is the last authentic place online to be yourself
So much of my social media feed is food. It’s home cooks whipping up «easy» recipes that look like they would take me two hours to complete. Perfectly-coiffed girls saunter off to pilates and sip on health-optimized smoothies. Mothers make ginormous batches of breakfast sandwiches for their hordes of children. All of it seems almost …
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We shouldn’t be seeing kids on social media, even those ones
We all likely have an image in our head of an evil «mommy vlogger» who uses her children as plot points, living vicariously through them in a vain effort to fulfill her own desire for stardom. Constantly pointing a camera in their faces, hoping that they’ll say something usable for social media views and engagement. …
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‘Thank you, I haven’t dunked my face in ice water in nearly three hours’: Male lifestyle influencer’s 5 hour long, 4 AM start morning routine gets mocked by the internet
In the land of content creation, the quotidian is big business. It turns out that many people want nothing more than to watch other people go about their daily lives, or at least what they claim is their daily lives, so long as it is aspirational in some form or another. It also just so …
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35-year-old mommy influencer secretly films couple being shown around her house by realtor, flips out when they threaten to sue: ‘She’s blasting us all over town’
As being an influencer has become more and more of an accepted career path, it is amazing the lengths that some will go to simply for the sake of engagement and views. Of course, there are the MrBeasts of this world who come up with ever more elaborate conceits and make ridiculous amounts of money …
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Satisfying ASMR ‘restock’ videos are overconsumption propaganda on steroids
Acrylic nails dance across the head of a $200 microphone with an ear-scraping drumbeat of clicks and clacks. A muffled outward breath clouds around the sharper staccato sound of finger-nail percussion like a soothing blanket of white noise. A soft whisper soon follows, flowing deep within your consciousness like a waking dream, hinting at a …
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‘The gift she got me was creepy and invasive’: Pushy woman gifts boyfriend’s pregnant daughter a videographer for her live birth, cries when daughter politely declines
Giving birth is an incredibly personal experience. You’re using your body in ways you never have before, and things can easily go wrong. Not to mention, it’s the first time you truly get to meet your baby, so you’re probably going to be protective over who gets to be there. However, for some people, their …
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‘Addison Rae won over a side of the internet that had once despised her’: How the former TikTok star broke the curse of her mainstream origins and became cool
The pandemic was so long that Addison Rae went from someone who you might recognize from doing TikTok dances with Jimmy Fallon to an actual legitimate rising pop icon. A mere four years ago, the Alabama-born influencer was a member of one of TikTok’s first and cringiest content houses, The Hype House, which was known …
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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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