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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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (August 13, 2024)
Without a shadow of a doubt, Gen Z are going to be remembered as the TikTok generation. It’s kind of wild, really, considering the massive influx of millennials and older who also use the clock app, but the Zoomers were the ones who were in their youth when it exploded onto the scene. They are …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 30, 2024)
It is only human to want to be noticed and feel like you matter, and this is a desire that all social media plays upon. TikTok is especially good at this in the way people love to use it as a place to express themselves and to reflect their own personalities, whatever they may be. …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 23, 2024)
In some ways, being a TikToker is a heavy responsibility. In essence, you are shouldering a small portion of the heavy burden that is one of the main things that will be used to define the culture of the 2020s. Whether you spend hours mindlessly swiping on the FYP or you are an avowed TikTok …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 16, 2024)
It’s wild to think that prolific TikTokers live among us and, unless we have an ungodly-looking screentime report, we may not even realize it. At any given time, we could be behind someone in the line for the grocery store checkout and not have the faintest idea that they’ve garnered millions of views by lip-syncing …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 9, 2024)
One of the big contradictions of TikTok culture is how its users present themselves. On the one hand, they’re telling the most niche anecdotes and realizing that they may have never had an original experience. On the other, they are constantly positioning themselves as the main character in the grand movie of their lives. While …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (July 2, 2024)
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that so far, the 2020s have panned out to be the TikTok decade. For all that people roll their eyes and critique the many goings on of the clock app, it can’t be denied that we feel its reverberations on culture everywhere. This is especially true on …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (June 25, 2024)
It’s no secret that the attention span of the average person these days is completely fried, and a big part of that is to do with social media. TikTok is probably one of the biggest culprits of the past half a decade, with the endless highlight reel of the FYP forever promising bigger and better …
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New mom faces pushback for calling out fellow plane passenger who complained about her 9-month-old baby on 24 hour trip: ‘My biggest fear on a long haul’
I really sympathize with people who have to go on airplanes with young children in tow. It’s not easy doing one of the most soul-destroying forms of transport known to man while also somehow placating your kids. By the same token, I can’t deny that my heart sinks if I get to my seat and …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (June 18, 2024)
Human beings have been finding unique and creative ways to express themselves ever since we first came into existence. We have created cave paintings, composed symphonies, and pushed the boundaries of the written word with experimental poetry. Then, we discovered the addictive properties of viral fame and began making memes, eventually even turning ourselves into …
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