Every half a generation or so, the internet gets redefined by a meme-adjacent way of sharing thoughts, jokes, and opinions on the internet. The late 2000s had Impact font Advice Animals, then the early to mid-2010s was dominated by Twitter screenshots. Whisper had a brief moment a few years back, and now we are undoubtedly …
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‘Dune is about the dangers of Boy Moms™’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (March 19, 2024)
Who knows how we got here, but we are somehow in a position where a not insignificant portion of the cultural climate is dictated by an app that began as a place for teenagers to do ridiculous little dances. Sure, it is meant to be in danger of being banned in the US but when …
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‘Cancelling dates bc I think it’s better I stay a vague concept’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (March 12, 2024)
On the surface, you might not think that there are all that many similarities between TikTok and Reddit, apart from the fact that users on the former love to steal stories from the latter and get an AI voice to read them over a game of Subway Surfers. However, one trait that they do share …
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‘Life would be much easier if I was an evil wizard’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (March 5, 2024)
Remember back in the heady days of the mid-2010s when some people thought that internet humor couldn’t get any weirder? We had Dat Boi, the craziness of Vine, and deep-fried memes! Surely it couldn’t get any more postmodern! Well, everyone who thought that was wrong. TikTok came along and put our irony-poisoned brains in a …
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‘I can’t figure out if there’s 365 birthdays or 8 billion birthdays’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (February 27, 2024)
Rumor has it if you say ‘TikTok’ into the mirror three times on a full moon, Reesa Teesa appears and gives you an exclusive epilogue to Who TF Did I Marry?. OK, so maybe that isn’t true, but I wouldn’t put it past some clout-hungry user of the clock app to make an overdramatic video …
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Also, chocolate-covered strawberries take over TikTok.
‘What if rocks are soft but tense up when we touch them?’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (February 20, 2024)
In some ways, TikTok was never as much of a revolution as it was made out to be. People had been doing ridiculous, embarrassing, and overly candid things on the internet for years at this point. The main difference is that it made all of this seem a lot more accessible, and normal. Even more …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (February 6, 2024)
In the more than half a decade it has been gracing the screens of our phones, TikTok has developed a real reputation. It’s the place where something mega viral begins, and you’re inclined to sigh and say «what now?». While all the other forms of social media also hold their own in this department, there …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 30, 2024)
It seems like only yesterday that non-Zoomers were getting confused over this confounded new short-form video app that teenagers were apparently using to showcase dance routines. How quickly times change. I hate to break it to you all, but musical.ly merged with TikTok over half a decade ago now. The rest, of course, is history. …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 23, 2024)
One of the reasons for the mega success of TikTok is that it has created a new frontier of relatability for social media. If we thought people were oversharing online in the before times, we’re playing a whole different and overly candid game now. Gen Z has made a name for themselves in being unafraid …
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