If you look up Alicia McCarvell on TikTok, you’ll find a verified account with over a million followers. Based on that information alone, you might assume that you’ve stumbled into that part of the online world where every other video is a thinly-veiled promo, and some impossibly perfect 20-year-old is […]
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10 gifts for the aspiring TikTok star in your life Do you know someone who wants to make it big on TikTok? Folks have used TikTok since its evolution from Musical.ly two years ago, but in the months since the pandemic confined most social interactions to the internet, the app’s […]
TikTok users in the US have been reacting to the news of a potential ban of the popular app for months. Photo Illustration by Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images The US government on Friday announced that downloads of the popular social-media app TikTok would be banned starting Sunday, marking the […]
SoftBank is already an investor in TikTok’s parent company ByteDance through its $100bn Vision Fund – LIONEL BONAVENTURE /AFP SoftBank is rounding up a group of bidders to take control of TikTok’s India unit, where the music video sharing app has been banned by the government over security concerns. The […]
Tech stocks, which have powered the broader market to fourth consecutive record closing highs, took a breather as traders booked profits on Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) — which have surged to new records. Facebook (FB), and Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) have also posted their highest-ever closing levels. Although the Nasdaq snapped a […]
Powell unveiled a new framework of thinking for the central bank that will tolerate inflation “moderately” above its 2% target. The Fed also committed to reviewing this policy every five years. The Fed chief warned that the persistence of low inflation over the last eight years risks new economic difficulties. “Many find […]
Haunted TikTok is the next evolution of internet horror After hours of scrolling through endless TikToks of teens dancing, couples pranking each other, and dogs being cute — something on your For You Page stops you dead in your tracks. Someone is walking around a dark, empty house, as text […]
Members of the Hype House. (Bryant Eslava, via Hype House via The New York Times) Late Monday night, a group of male TikTok stars who belong to the Gen Z influencer collective known as the Sway House charged up the streets of the Hollywood Hills. They were on their way […]
Psychologists warn that outsized social media fame may pose longterm problems for the kids who have become celebrities online. Getty Images The biggest stars of 2020 are kids who have gone viral on social media. Experts say these young influencers are even more at risk for developing problems than previous […]
Photo credit: Elaine Chung From Esquire In “Beers and Weirs,” the second episode of the short-lived cult classic TV show Freaks and Geeks, the protagonist Lindsay Weir (Linda Cardellini) is pressured into hosting a keg party for her new slacker-stoner friends. She spends all afternoon preparing for it: pouring bowls […]
Ash Baber. Ash Baber, TikTok TikTok star Ash Baber, 20, has baked life-sized versions of the food emojis. Baber recreated the birthday cake, cupcake, donut, and croissant emojis on the social platform. He told Insider he wouldn’t recommend his videos for people trying to learn how to bake. Visit Insider’s […]
When picturing a top level view of social media, what comes to your mind’s eye? Most of us consider the advancement of Facebook or Instagram in a generally negative light; something undeniably addictive that further divides the country or a medium to ignite negativity. But there’s a whole different side […]
People are learning all kinds of new things on TikTok: how to do viral dances to popular songs, how to make hot cocoa bombs or paint an accent wall. They are also learning dubious financial information from unverified sources with millions of followers. Personal finance TikTok, also known as #FinTok […]
There’s no denying that the past year has been weird, especially online: TikTok users have gone viral for unexpected food hacks, looking identical to celebrities and asking Miley Cyrus to make major life choices for them. However, a new viral trend is baffling many: Why, exactly, are TikTok users from […]
In the final week of 2020, Nathan Evans, a 26-year-old Scottish postman and aspiring musician, shared a video of himself on TikTok, singing a sea shanty called “Soon May the Wellerman Come.” He wasn’t expecting anything to happen, but the app has a way of turning dusty esoterica into viral […]
If you feel a teeny, tiny pair of claws tugging on your hair tonight, willing you to buy a ticket for Ratatouille The TikTok Musical, don’t try to fight the will of your rodent pilot. First of all, having a talented rat take the reigns of your life for a […]
Screenshot: Youtube TikTok is a place that is simultaneously mostly bad and mostly good, a singular paradox that sustains itself on the collective manic energy produced by the general suffering of human existence. How this gets expressed on the app varies. Evangelical teens preach hell and brimfire on girls who […]
(Newser) – Anyone still unclear about the importance of face masks may want to check out a new clip from Bill Nye the Science Guy. In Friday’s viral TikTok video—which was shared online by comedian Christopher Titus, among others—the 65-year-old scientist offers his insight into how and why […]