TikTok is, in this day and age, the undisputed king of rot in bed with your phone time. There are few platforms so scrollable and varied, staging a continuous assault on the senses until your brain can’t take any more or it’s 3 AM on a weeknight and you have work tomorrow. The reasoning behind …
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‘Heaven is a spotless kitchen with a perpetually restocked fridge’: In a chaotic world, cleaning videos give us a sense of control over our lives
Creators online have built careers filming a simple household task: Cleaning. As viewers, we spend countless minutes watching rugs be vacuumed, toilet bowls drowned in a rainbow of products, and even women reviving old, neglected gravestones. The internet has long celebrated the mundane, but cleaning videos have an especially soothing effect for some viewers. This …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 1, 2025)
For better or for worse, this era of human history is at least partly defined by the follies of the clock app. Even those who can’t think of anything more nightmarish than being forced to have a casual scroll through the For You Page have likely had their lives touched by TikTok, assuming they are …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 25, 2025)
There is an argument to be made that we have few better documents of what it is like to be alive in the social media age than TikTok. Sure, those who actually create content for the platform are a tiny fraction of those who use it, but it nonetheless informs the culture and thinking of …
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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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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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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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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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