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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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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‘Heaven is a spotless kitchen with a perpetually restocked fridge’: In a chaotic world, cleaning videos give us a sense of control over our lives

Creators online have built careers filming a simple household task: Cleaning. As viewers, we spend countless minutes watching rugs be vacuumed, toilet bowls drowned in a rainbow of products, and even women reviving old, neglected gravestones. The internet has long celebrated the mundane, but cleaning videos have an especially soothing effect for some viewers. This …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (April 1, 2025)

For better or for worse, this era of human history is at least partly defined by the follies of the clock app. Even those who can’t think of anything more nightmarish than being forced to have a casual scroll through the For You Page have likely had their lives touched by TikTok, assuming they are …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 25, 2025)

There is an argument to be made that we have few better documents of what it is like to be alive in the social media age than TikTok. Sure, those who actually create content for the platform are a tiny fraction of those who use it, but it nonetheless informs the culture and thinking of …
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Consuming Consumerism: How trendy TikTok foods are actually gross, greedy, and anti-culinary

Scrolling on TikTok can sometimes feel like sifting through a sea of consumer products, from skincare to home decor to whatever the TikTok shop has decided to sell to you. Watching someone bite into a sandwich or sip a drink can feel like a satisfying break from that constant salesmanship. In reality, though, it’s just …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 11, 2025)

TikTok is often seen as holding a unique place in the current hierarchy of influential places on the internet, but that isn’t necessarily true. In a lot of ways, what draws people to it is the kind of thing that has made being online such an attractive thing for decades. It is all about the …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (March 4, 2025)

Perhaps the greatest thing about TikTok is the sheer variety of material that it provides the internet with for entertainment purposes. No longer simply a place for teenagers to do dances for clout, it offers the world all manner of unique perspectives and trends the likes of which we have never seen before. If you …
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The Most Entertaining Takes From TikTok This Week (February 25, 2025)

These days, it can sometimes feel like mainstream internet culture at large is dictated largely by TikTok. Of course, there are plenty of other influences at play as well, but the clock app is such a hub of creative content creation that it can’t help but spread the love (and plenty of hate) everywhere else. …
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20+ Hilarious Responses to a Wholesome Book-Loving Prompt That Definitely Reached the Wrong and Unserious Audience

We all have our personal algorithms that create the content we consume online. We know that our «Explore» pages are perfectly tailored to us and our interests, and we enjoy watching and reading the content that is best suited to what we enjoy.  People who enjoy watching DIY posts will have a For You page …
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