While there are many reasons for the enduring appeal of TikTok for millions of creators and users, one of the more appealing ones is that when you end up on its good side, it can be very human. Between all the offensively fake influencers, unironic brainrot, and annoying opinions, you get to see all manner …
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The creative entrepreneur: Why the process, and not the art, is the reason artists succeed on social media
Today, almost anybody who is creative is a «creator,» and social media is the conduit through which they can share their creations with a prospective audience. An audience that discovers and engages with art of all kinds on drip-fed social media feeds. Artists and craftspeople, meanwhile, are left hoping for their share of algorithmic success …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (May 13, 2025)
Many people despair at the idea that our cultural climate is influenced by the inane trends and ramblings that happen on a popular short-form video app, but like it or lump it, that is exactly the kind of culture that we are living in right now. At this crossroads, we have two choices: despair at …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (May 6, 2025)
There is no place like TikTok to make you simultaneously realize the different lives that everybody leads, yet how much the same most of us are. Sure, there are plenty of the polished, brand-deal-saturated influencers that people aspire to and do not seem all that in touch with reality, no matter how ‘real’ they are, …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 29, 2025)
It could be argued that TikTok is a kind of social media platform that would have had to be invented if it hadn’t existed already. The people of today simply have too strong a longing to contribute to the creator economy and be internet personalities for them to be stuck with all the other options …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 8, 2025)
TikTok is, in this day and age, the undisputed king of rot in bed with your phone time. There are few platforms so scrollable and varied, staging a continuous assault on the senses until your brain can’t take any more or it’s 3 AM on a weeknight and you have work tomorrow. The reasoning behind …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 18, 2025)
In the dog-eat-dog world of social media, it is TikTok that holds most of the cards when it comes to having culturally impactful clout. Rightly or wrongly, it is the place that many people turn to when they want to feel like they have their finger on the pulse of contemporary culture and what the …
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‘Your TikTok auntie’: How older women are keeping the Gen Z app from completely crumbling to consumerism
You can tell a lot about a platform from the reputation of its oldest users. Facebook is notorious for courting the higher age brackets and thus attracting the more close-minded, technologically-incompetent chaos of «old people Facebook.» The anonymity of Reddit allows for users to blend in a little more seamlessly unless they announce themselves. TikTok, …
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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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