The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (June 10, 2025)

One way or another, the reason that so many people are so hopelessly dependent on social media is because of the stories that it tells. We just can’t get enough of every single tale that finds its way onto the platforms, and TikTok is one of the number one places on the internet today that …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (June 3, 2025)

It is amazing, really, what people these days are willing to make and share in the name of Content, and few places exemplify this better than TikTok. From the sublime to the ridiculous, to the achingly vulnerable, to what can only be described as pure brainrot, users are doing it all over there. Truth be …
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There Are Too Many ‘Man-On-the-Street’ Interviewers On Social Media and They’re Only Getting Worse

You’re walking down the street and enjoying your day. You have your headphones on and you’re running late to work. Out of nowhere, someone stops you. You don’t have time to sign a petition or pledge money to Greenpeace, but what’s this? They’re using a lav mic and someone is holding an iPhone nearby. Oh …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (May 27, 2025)

It is pretty undeniable at this point that if there is going to be a social media platform that defines the first half of the 2020s, it is going to be TikTok. The clock app has made the mainstream internet a place where short-form video is king, and more and more people want to try …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (May 20, 2025)

Just like the people of yesteryear used to pick up the morning paper to inform themselves of what was happening in the world, many of the youth of today wake up and open TikTok. The key difference is that while current events may make a feature on many For You pages, the main character of …
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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 22, 2025)

There are more people using the internet now than ever before and even more drastic than that, there are more people trying to fill the nebulous role of ‘content creator’ than at any other time in history, since the idea was created maybe a couple of decades ago. These days, many of them are on …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 15, 2025)

It is not like we needed another app to waste away our days with that continually sold us stuff and quite possibly spied on us, but TikTok boldly rushed in at the end of the last decade to fill that very narrow gap anyway. The rest, as they like to say, is history: no longer …
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