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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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 16, 2024)

Like all iconic social media platforms, TikTok is one of those places that takes you by surprise just when you think that you’ve seen it all. Say what you like about TikTokers, some of them can be mighty creative and they love nothing more than sharing that with the world. While I am sometimes horrified …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (January 9, 2024)

Welcome back or just plain welcome to TikTok’s enthusiasts, detractors, and those who continue to be bewildered by the way it affects the youth and general population today. As someone who has watched the rise of TikTok for years now, I find myself in all of these roles at different times. I exist as a …
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‘I wanna help my customers out’: Influencer secretly works at Target for free, gives customers free gift cards all day long

Target is famously one of the most difficult stores to get a job at. If you go on down to Hobby Lobby, Five Below, or Walmart and drop off your application, you’ve got a better chance than not of getting hired. Target is a different story. They won’t just hire any random ne’er-do-well to work …
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‘Am I the only one who doesn’t know who Obama is?’: The most entertaining takes from TikTok this week (January 2, 2024)

I know that most of us enjoy decrying social media as the downfall of humanity from time to time, but I don’t think we should lose sight of its upsides. TikTok is a perfect example of this mixed offering. On the one hand, it is taking a sledgehammer to our already fragile attention spans and …
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‘You don’t look French’: The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 26, 2023)

I’ll be honest, a few years ago I thought that the internet had probably leveled out in terms of how addictive it was. There were just so many different sites, apps, and distractions that it seemed impossible for its time-wasting potential to expand even more than it already had. You know what comes next: I …
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‘I sentence you to eating without YouTube’: The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 19, 2023)

Call me old-fashioned, but I really don’t enjoy the process of filming myself. I can just about cope with the occasional selfie, but you won’t find me whacking out the front camera to give an extended dialogue any time soon. I get self-conscious in a Zoom meeting, for God’s sake. Who knows what it would …
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‘I refuse the question’: Legendary dude refuses to choose between LGBT rights and economic stability, enrages TikToker in the process

Depending on how you see it, we live in a golden or dark age of «man on the street» interviews. If you live in a major city or go to university, it can feel like people are always swarming you, asking, «What are you listening to?» or «How much does your outfit cost?» However, not …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (December 12, 2023)

You don’t see so many people boasting about never having downloaded TikTok these days. This isn’t necessarily because they’ve caved, but it is possibly due to the fact that the clock app has managed to get its tendrils around all these other places on the internet. Every other platform insists on doing short form video, …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (November 28, 2023)

Something I find fascinating is how TikTok seems to be morphing slowly into YouTube. It was confirmed that the platform was experimenting with allowing some users to upload 15 minute videos last month. It started off with a time limit of 15 seconds! Also, a lot of people find that their FYP occasionally serves up …
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