In the dog-eat-dog world of social media, it is TikTok that holds most of the cards when it comes to having culturally impactful clout. Rightly or wrongly, it is the place that many people turn to when they want to feel like they have their finger on the pulse of contemporary culture and what the …
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‘Your TikTok auntie’: How older women are keeping the Gen Z app from completely crumbling to consumerism
You can tell a lot about a platform from the reputation of its oldest users. Facebook is notorious for courting the higher age brackets and thus attracting the more close-minded, technologically-incompetent chaos of «old people Facebook.» The anonymity of Reddit allows for users to blend in a little more seamlessly unless they announce themselves. TikTok, …
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Consuming Consumerism: How trendy TikTok foods are actually gross, greedy, and anti-culinary
Scrolling on TikTok can sometimes feel like sifting through a sea of consumer products, from skincare to home decor to whatever the TikTok shop has decided to sell to you. Watching someone bite into a sandwich or sip a drink can feel like a satisfying break from that constant salesmanship. In reality, though, it’s just …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 11, 2025)
TikTok is often seen as holding a unique place in the current hierarchy of influential places on the internet, but that isn’t necessarily true. In a lot of ways, what draws people to it is the kind of thing that has made being online such an attractive thing for decades. It is all about the …
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‘THIS is my emergency contact’: Why goofifying a fundamentally unserious romantic partner makes Gen Z feel safe despite the looming insecurity of the future
After the rockfall settles, dust swirls around you, thickening the already stale air. Blinking the stars out of your eyes, your vision adjusts to the dim light and despite your throbbing headache and the ringing in your ears, you catch a glimpse of the golden opening above where the silhouettes of pine trees watch over …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 4, 2025)
Perhaps the greatest thing about TikTok is the sheer variety of material that it provides the internet with for entertainment purposes. No longer simply a place for teenagers to do dances for clout, it offers the world all manner of unique perspectives and trends the likes of which we have never seen before. If you …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (February 25, 2025)
These days, it can sometimes feel like mainstream internet culture at large is dictated largely by TikTok. Of course, there are plenty of other influences at play as well, but the clock app is such a hub of creative content creation that it can’t help but spread the love (and plenty of hate) everywhere else. …
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Questionable Posts and Random Musings From Kids Who Are Too Young to Be on the Internet
One of the greatest unintentional social experiments of our time is raising almost an entire generation through the medium of screens and the internet. Sure, this has already happened to some extent to younger millennials and Gen Z, but it is Gen Alpha who is going to be the true test of what it means …
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20+ Hilarious Responses to a Wholesome Book-Loving Prompt That Definitely Reached the Wrong and Unserious Audience
We all have our personal algorithms that create the content we consume online. We know that our «Explore» pages are perfectly tailored to us and our interests, and we enjoy watching and reading the content that is best suited to what we enjoy. People who enjoy watching DIY posts will have a For You page …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (February 18, 2025)
Every day, the internet throws up some good arguments in favor of the much-memed New York Times Op-Ed headline We Should All Know Less About Each Other. A downside to this, though, is that we wouldn’t get half as much interesting content from the home of social media oversharing, TikTok. The clock app has many …
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