The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 22, 2024)

TikTok will leave a legacy for many reasons, but one of its most impactful is how it cemented the idea that pretty much anybody can make themselves into a somebody on the internet. While it is true that this had already been established on the likes of YouTube and Twitter, the clock app just made …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (October 15, 2024)

When it comes to trying to explain why TikTok has been such a runaway success, many like to point towards its nefariously adaptable algorithm that often seems to read your mind as it adapts the FYP to your exact interests and tastes. There is no denying that it is a big factor, but there are …
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‘Reconnecting with nature after applying to entry level jobs that require 15 years experience’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (October 8, 2024)

What shall we do the day that TikTok disappears from this earth? Pandora’s box has now been open for a long time, and it is hard to imagine that people will be happy to go back to a time when people thought twice about sharing their life’s greatest dramas and punchlines along with their faces …
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‘Do not invite me to that microwave you live in’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (October 1, 2024)

Many like to argue that TikTok can show us a lot about what it means to live in Society today. What that is exactly is highly dependent on who you may be talking to and whatever agenda they may have, so it can sometimes be pretty confusing to figure out what it all means. At …
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‘Spent $150 on groceries and I still need $150 worth of groceries’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (September 24, 2024)

The psyche of the average person who posts regularly on TikTok must be a fascinating thing. Exchanging your story, your deepest held secrets, your most shameful thought processes in exchange for virality—it’s nothing new, but was it ever this popular and widely accepted? TikTok is in part so popular as it is a continuation of …
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‘How difficult it is to be a book girlie AND a rotisserie chicken girlie’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (September 17, 2024)

One of the best and worst things about the internet is that it has exposed us all to so many things we would have been blissfully unaware of otherwise, and few places exemplify this better than TikTok. For better or worse, this short-form video platform has given a voice to people from all walks of …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 10, 2024)

There are only a few things that you need to be a somewhat successful TikToker: a phone, a can-do attitude, and the opportunity to be smiled upon by the algorithmic gods. While social media has always had at least the outward appearance of being democratic, it is the clock app that has really hammered home …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (September 3, 2024)

There is a saying that many TikTok users like to deploy in the comment section when their For You Page serves them up a particularly strange, cringey, or otherwise unexpected video: «I built this FYP brick by brick». It’s an acknowledgment that, for better or worse, a lot of us terminally online scrollers engage with …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 27, 2024)

Modern life can be mentally exhausting, and one of the reasons for that is that we are constantly bombarded with just how much stuff there is in the world. As soon as you go on social media you open yourself up to an intensely distracting but also overwhelming world of possibility. A big part of …
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‘You’ll be having a good day, then someone your age says they’re buyng a house’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (August 20, 2024)

The cultural zeitgeist can be a tricky old thing. On the one hand, it usually does exist in the context of all that came before it. On the other, the things that it can choose to focus on can still seem completely random and unpredictable to the untrained eye. These days, it definitely helps to …
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