I've seen the effect of medical misinformation on social media described as "Munchausens by TikTok," which captures pithily the image of everyone drowning in sleazy, pseudoscientific wellness content, becoming obsessed with fictitious problems and minor ailments. But on reflection, thinking about it like that only compounds the problem, doesn't it? — Read the rest
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Are you ever scrolling on TikTok or Facebook (okay, who isn't?) but find someone painfully mediocre and wonder, "How did THEY get so famous?!" If it's not obviously their good looks or dance moves, it's probably their content. — Read the rest
A popular TikToker with a following of over 4 million was arrested after driving a stolen car that belonged to a therapist who had been murdered in Texas days before.
Terryon Thomas, a comedic 20-year-old who goes by Mr. Prada online, was arrested in Dallas on Tuesday after police found him driving a black Lincoln that belonged to 69-year-old William Nicholas Abraham — an author and self-described life coach — whose body was found wrapped in a tarp and "partially hidden along the road" near the Louisiana border over the weekend, according to USA Today. — Read the rest
The scream chicken filter is hilarious. The filter is a short platformer video game where you control the character, a chicken, with your voice. You can make any sound to make the chicken move while avoiding obstacles and falling to your death. — Read the rest
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It's safe to say that our days of Polaroid pictures and disposable cameras are over (unless you're old school!). — Read the rest
The Nintendo characters at Universal Studio Hollywood were doing their thing this summer, meeting and greeting park guests, when an excited l'il Toad made a mistake and broke into some dance moves. Yes, it was cute — so darn cute, in fact, that everyone with a TikTok account started to ask the adorable toadstool to dance with them. — Read the rest
Content on TikTok frequently has images blurred out, presumably so they won't get flagged and removed by the moderators. These images surely are the worst things imaginable, shocking to our humanity: violence (usually fake violence from TV or movies), guns (usually fake guns from TV or movies), and… cigarettes (sometimes real, sometimes fake from TV or movies.). — Read the rest
If your response to boredom is to whip out your phone and scroll endlessly through TikTok, you might be doing it wrong. According to a study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, this kind of "digital switching" intensifies boredom rather than relieving it. — Read the rest
The Vertical Movie uses AI to transform movies into video clips that look like they were shot on an iPhone for TikTok.
They've given the treatment to the likes of Lord of the Rings, Inglourious Bastards, and Casino Royale but I think Jurassic Park works beautifully. — Read the rest
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction, recently posted a video announcing that he is using information gathered from Libs of TikTok—the notoriously transphobic and anti-LGBTQ social media account founded and run by right-wing "journalist" and activist Chaya Raichik—to as Ron Filipkowski puts it, "hunt down school employees who joked about Trump's ear getting nicked so that they can be fired." — Read the rest
Trump running mate JD Vance has tried to change his tune since calling the convicted ex-president "reprehensible," "an idiot," and even "Hitler."
But his old tune has just exploded as a new viral TikTok ditty in which, using his own words, Vance sings, "I'm a never Trump guy. — Read the rest
TL;DR: Point and shoot cameras are all the rage on TikTok, and this Kodak PIXPRO Digital Camera is a huge favorite. It's now on sale for only $69.99 — over half off the regular price.
Remember the point and shoot camera you had in high school and college (no, we're not saying you're old)? — Read the rest
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Whether it's your parents' old film or vintage slides that are collecting dust in that old box you keep in your closet, those precious memories don't deserve to be forgotten. — Read the rest
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In case its name isn't clear enough, snapping turtles snap. And so, obviously, it's best not to touch them — as one TikToker learned the hard — aka painful — way.
"Whatchya doin' little man?" she asked sweetly, talking to a cute snapping turtle who was trying to mind its own business. — Read the rest
A TikToker wanted to make "a cute video" posing with her dog, but from the get-go, you can see that the pooch had other plans.
The video starts off with Nayte smiling into the camera, assuming her Australian shepherd, Marley, is doing the same. — Read the rest
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If you're into scrubbing TikToks, hold onto your hat. This electric scrubber can give you all the satisfyingly clean experiences you've been dreaming of while living vicariously through TikTok content creators. — Read the rest
The angry founder of Libs of TikTok — the book-banning, anti-LGBTQ, Covid-denying, Big Lie, conspiratorial social media group — spoke to students at Indiana University about the horrors of "wokeness." But when asked to define what "wokeness" means, uhhh, Chaya Raichik was at a loss for words. — Read the rest
In a cringeworthy interview with CNBC, Donald Trump stumbled through a bizarre explanation of his shifting stance on banning TikTok, a complete 180 from his hardline position as President. Throughout the interview, Trump struggled to provide a clear, logical explanation for his abrupt reversal on banning TikTok. — Read the rest
Of the piles of vile and/or idiotic word garbage that have spewed out of DJ Trump since 2015, I have probably only agreed with him once or twice. We are certainly in sync when he says that Ron DeSantis has "no personality. — Read the rest
