I have a lot of thoughts about the future of the internet that make me anxious. One of these is that we will all be increasingly expected to express ourselves via the medium of short form video. Has the static written word really become that boring? I don’t want to have to go through an …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 3, 2023)
It’s wild to me how in just a few short years, TikTok has changed so much about the internet that we use everyday. Platforms that used to be all about the static image have done full pivots to video (looking at you, Instagram and Twitter). It’s become almost normal for some random person that you …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 26, 2023)
I try not to indulge in too much nostalgia for what the internet was like when I was growing up, but one thing that was better about it was that most people weren’t using it to market themselves. Nowadays, it seems like every smalltime screen addict comes with a built in instinct for turning themselves …
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Eavesdropping TikToker Faces Criticism for Exposing Strangers Gossiping About Friend’s Wedding
It’s safe to say that all of us have been talked about behind our back at some point or another. Gossip is an unavoidable part of the human experience, and even those of us with boring lives face the scrutiny of busybodies now and then. If we want to get even more uncomfortable with it, …
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Cringey Millennial Dances With Her Pancakes, People Debate Whether The Girl Glaring at Her is a Hater
There’s something to be said about living joyfully in public. I try to be as kind and happy to strangers as possible, both because it’s in my nature and it makes people’s day. I love to smile at strangers, even though 90% of the time, they look back at me like I’m crazy, but that’s …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 22, 2023)
Since the dawn of the internet, people have been using it as an outlet for their most deranged and attention seeking impulses. It’s only recently that this has become a truly competitive sport. Part of the reason for this is a little app named TikTok, which has 117 million users in the US alone. Everyone …
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Niche Internet Microcelebrity Spotlight: Sam’s Tailor
Screen Name: @samstailor Real Name: Roshan Melwani Occupation: Tailor Reason for Fame: Melwani, otherwise known as the TikTok tailor, offers a trade off to his clients. He will give you the fit of a lifetime, for the small price of being violently humbled on social media (and however many thousands of dollars it costs for …
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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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Niche Internet Microcelebrity Spotlight: Chinese Teacher Molly
Screen Name: molly_chineseteacher Real Name: Molly Internet Occupation: Language teacher Reason for Fame: Mandarin Chinese has been ranked as one of the hardest languages to learn for native English speakers. With over 100,000 characters compared to the Latin alphabet’s 26 letters, it is probably going takes more than a 14 day streak on Duolingo to …
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British TikToker Shares the Five Classic Ways to Avoid a Street Salesman That We’re All Certainly Guilty Of
Get lost, Girl Scouts!