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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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 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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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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