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 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 …
Seguir leyendo 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!’
‘The kitten heels without the cubicles’: The ‘office siren’ microtrend and Gen Z’s new vision for the workplace
For a generation entering the adult workforce in a post-pandemic world, the world of in-person office work can feel like a thing of the past. Remote work is at an all-time high, and for many members of Gen Z, the thought of going into an office five days a week—let alone suiting up in business …
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‘It’s more consuming than reading’: Woman shares cozy aesthetic reading routine, is dragged and accused of overconsumption
If TikTok is good for one thing, it’s taking everyday activities and giving them ‘aesthetic’ rebrands. Think of all the kitchen restock videos that have cropped up lately, where a simple grocery store run turns into treating your fridge like you’re the office manager of a high-budget tech company. Or the aesthetic shower videos, where folks show off their museum-like body …
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‘Leave them alone creep’: Woman secretly films couple’s photo booth proposal, gets roasted for invading privacy
In the age of social media, privacy has become a sticky subject. With everyone making content out of their lives all the time, it’s hard to say when to draw the line on if you want to be photographed. Everyone’s constantly mining their experiences for content, but some things are sacred. Not everything has to …
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People Show Off Their Freckle Tattoos and the Internet Hates It
People will go to extremes for beauty. Cleopatra supposedly bathed in donkey milk to look young, Jean Harlow ultimately met her demise because of the chemicals in the bleach she used to dye her hair, and women squeeze themselves into Skims every day. We’re no strangers to making drastic body modifications in the name of …
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Explain Like I’m 35: What is Girl Dinner?
Over the past few years, a common philosophy shared on social media has been that we should all know less about each another. This viewpoint and the infamous reaction image that often accompanies it is usually deployed in response to people sharing the most gross or personal aspects of their lives; like badmouthing someone on …
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Hilarious TikToks That Define The Clock App
I have been on TikTok since the ancient year of 2019. That was before all the real adults joined the app, and it was a weird and unique place on the internet at the time. Maybe TikTok hasn’t changed that much besides the fact that there are more people on it. Not to mention, the …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 6, 2023)
TikTok is the number one social media for platforming incendiary takes. Ten years ago, Tumblr was the undisputed master of this art. People (and by people, I mostly mean tweens) would post wild and crazy takes just to get roasted by all of the other tweens on the website. Now, it’s all happening on TikTok, …
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