This week in TikTok: Why is everyone so mad at Charli D'Amelio?
This weekend, 16-year-old Charli D'Amelio became the first person to reach 100 million followers on […]
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When ordinary people go viral, where's the line between comedy and cruelty?
On TikTok, the line between privately grimacing at a cringeworthy post and contributing to a […]
Read moreA taxonomy of Gen Z selfie poses
Teens on TikTok are creating a new visual language, one that involves nose scrunches, fish […]
Read moreSurprise! The Trump administration doesn't seem serious about banning TikTok after all.
Remember when the Trump administration thought TikTok was a grave threat to America? No? Well, […]
Read moreThis week in TikTok: MAGA meltdowns and Gen Z revolutions
On Tuesdays, internet culture reporter Rebecca Jennings uses this space to update you all on […]
Read moreThis week in TikTok: Halloween is still happening … online
Which is why when I hop on a Zoom call with TikTok beauty guru Abby […]
Read moreThis week in TikTok: The influencer hair salon that's under attack
Because it's 2020, that demographic now includes TikTokers. By summer, massively popular TikTok influencers were […]
Read moreWhy social media makes you feel so old
On Instagram, meme accounts share images of the Golden Girls captioned with ?me watching TikTok.? […]
Read moreThis week in TikTok: Death of the collab house
Plus, the best thing on TikTok is the guy skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac. By Rebecca […]
Read moreClaudia Conway's TikToks, explained
Since this summer, when her anti-Trump, Black Lives Matter, and ?Save Barron? TikTok videos went […]
Read moreA TikTok house divided
Before landing in the Valley, these teenagers built astronomically huge fan bases, sometimes literally overnight, […]
Read moreWhy Walmart thinks TikTok is the future of its business
Why Walmart thinks TikTok is the future of its business. The brick-and-mortar retailer is trying […]
Read moreThis week in TikTok: And the song of summer is …
On Tuesdays, internet culture reporter Rebecca Jennings uses this space to update you all on […]
Read moreThis week in TikTok: Everybody wants to be ?Heather?
What we do know is that Zoom School has bred a new type of gallows […]
Read moreThe bigger stakes of the TikTok debate
On August 6, President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting transactions with the video-sharing app […]
Read moreHow ?kombucha girl? revolutionized internet fame
That isn't the reason Tomlinson, known on TikTok as Brittany Broski, is one of the […]
Read moreThis week in TikTok: Why does Instagram Reels suck so bad?
On Tuesdays, internet culture reporter Rebecca Jennings uses this space to update you all on […]
Read moreTrump's China fight has extended to TikTok. But is it really a threat?
Last week, President Trump seriously escalated his threats toward the social media app TikTok, which […]
Read moreThis week in TikTok: So ? is it getting banned or what?
Is Microsoft buying it? Are the faceless, omnipotent gods at TikTok stealing data? ? are […]
Read moreThe TikTok drama shines a spotlight on the rare tech investor who is backing Trump
But TikTok has an investor who looms large in the drama because of his personal […]
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