From thousand-dollar Erewhon hauls to fridge restocking to simple «come grocery shop with me» videos, influencers give grocery shopping a glamorous treatment online. Celebrating and romanticizing the lifestyles of the rich and famous is nothing new, but now that longing-affluent fascination has trickled down to even mundane chores. This newer, even more confounding type of …
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Why Charli D’Amelio’s Casting in the Chorus of ‘& Juliet’ is a Brilliant Moment in Stunt Casting History
It would have been hard to believe in 2019, at the start of her rise to fame, that in six years’ time, TikTok sensation Charli D’Amelio would be making her debut on Broadway. At the time, there was literally no telling whether skyrocketing on TikTok would translate to any kind of success in mainstream entertainment …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (February 11, 2025)
Like it or not, when we look back on the 2020s TikTok is going to be one of the things that defines the decade (or at least its first half). It is a big part of the reason that people are more comfortable oversharing on the internet than ever, that being an influencer is seen …
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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 Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (February 4, 2025)
Even if TikTok wound up disappearing tomorrow, even its biggest naysayers can’t deny that it has changed the landscape of internet culture forever. Never before have the general public been so emboldened to share their most intimate interests and thoughts with the public in the name of online clout, and never before have they all …
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‘The kids yearn for 2014 Tumblr’: Algorithms ruined the original intention of social media and left us uninspired
Though, to many of us, 2014 feels like yesterday, some young internet users are already nostalgic for that not-so-bygone era, one of indie pop, American Apparel, and reblogging moody gifs. It’s called «Tumblrcore» since the axis on which that nostalgia revolves is Tumblr, a social media platform that ruled a certain side of the internet …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 28, 2025)
So, another day dawns on TikTok as a video-based social media platform that influences the cultural landscape of the USA and indeed most of the rest of the world. What would the internet of today be like if we didn’t have the likes of TikTokers sharing funny thoughts, crazy schemes, and relatable vignettes? A much …
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‘I just got called a “Maple Licker»…’: Americans hilariously roast Canadians like a sibling rivalry after ban gets halted in the U.S.
Listen, we all have our issues around the world. Right now, it feels like the U.S. has more issues than most, but I digress. As an American, it is our right to be able to complain and make fun of ourselves. So, we self-deprecate left and right. I would be so bold as to say …
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How Apple TV+’s Severance taught us a valuable lesson on the importance of physical marketing in a completely digital world: ‘It’s irreplaceable by any ad on our screens’
We live in a world filled to the brim with innovations and technological advancements, that cause everyone to look for new ways to excite their audiences. When it comes to advertising, we are well used to a reality in which we’re constantly bombarded with products and content, each begging for our attention and our dollar …
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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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