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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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 21, 2025)
It has been perhaps the biggest anticlimax of 2025 so far; after all the drama, handwringing, and numerous memes, TikTok’s availability was reinstated in the US after being shut down for just 12 hours. While this doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to stay that way, all those lamenting the loss of their beloved FYP …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 14, 2025)
So, is this it? After the seemingly endless back and forth between the US government and Bytedance, it looks like the United States might finally be banning TikTok by the end of this week. It will be a sad day for the many content creators who make a living or simply express themselves on the …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 7, 2025)
Just like many of the social media platforms that came before it, TikTok often acts as a public space for people to express themselves, figure things out, and maybe even grapple with concepts that up until now, they hadn’t really thought about. The only difference is that in comparison to what came before, it is …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 31, 2024)
As another year of the clock app being a cultural tour de force comes to an end, the silly memes, ramblings, and random occurrences that it throws up show no sign of slowing down. No matter what 2025 may have in store for TikTok, it has shored up enough videos and image carousels that would …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 24, 2024)
Overdramatic as the place tends to be, it feels fitting to treat the looming threat of TikTok being banned in the US like the band who kept on playing while the Titanic sank. The festive atmosphere can only add to the drama. While the ship may soon be consumed by the North Atlantic Ocean of …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 17, 2024)
Well, the bogeyman that has been hanging over the clock app for so long might be closer than ever. The deadline has been set for ByteDance to sell TikTok or have the app be banned in the USA. While they might be appealing the law that may change the face of contemporary internet culture as …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 10, 2024)
The good, the bad, and the ugly of the clock app are all united in one goal: giving the general public as much goofy free entertainment as possible. Ever since TikTok became an inescapable part of the internet landscape half a decade ago, it has been feeding us the very best/worst in online amusement and …
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‘My sister gave my sweater to an ostrich’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (December 3, 2024)
While no doubt many Redditors would take offense to being compared to the clock app, there are some striking similarities between Reddit and TikTok. They are both places where we can experience the full spectrum of humanity as filtered through the internet, from surprisingly useful advice and tips to the most deranged s***posting that this …
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‘Addison Rae won over a side of the internet that had once despised her’: How the former TikTok star broke the curse of her mainstream origins and became cool
The pandemic was so long that Addison Rae went from someone who you might recognize from doing TikTok dances with Jimmy Fallon to an actual legitimate rising pop icon. A mere four years ago, the Alabama-born influencer was a member of one of TikTok’s first and cringiest content houses, The Hype House, which was known …
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