I’m Spending the Holidays Watching Cabin Builders on TikTok—While I Still Can
Even if TikTok doesn’t get banned in the US next year, it’ll still be far from the zone-out place it once was.
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Culture, Culture / Culture News, Culture / Digital Culture, Culture / Movies, Culture / TV, Tech Industry, Tech News, The MonitorNo One Needs a Luigi Mangione Show
Read more: No One Needs a Luigi Mangione ShowOnline, lots of people have ideas about what could happen if the murder suspect’s life were given the Hollywood treatment. Let’s make sure that idea gets a red light.
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Spotify Wrapped, TikTok—Maybe the Algorithms Are Losing Touch
Read more: Spotify Wrapped, TikTok—Maybe the Algorithms Are Losing TouchOnce an internet cause célèbre, this year lots of folks turned cold on Spotify Wrapped. TikTok’s year in review also felt unsurprising. Maybe our platforms know less about us than we think.
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The Guy Behind the Most Nostalgic Sites on the Internet
Read more: The Guy Behind the Most Nostalgic Sites on the InternetFrom Bop Spotter to his collection of long-lost and rarely-seen YouTube videos, Riley Walz makes the future of the internet look like its past.
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The Website of Old YouTube Clips That Feels Like a Gut Punch
Read more: The Website of Old YouTube Clips That Feels Like a Gut PunchBluesky will never be Twitter. YouTube is no longer about funny videos made with your friends. The old internet is gone, but it can be remade. The website IMG_0001 proves it.
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Forget Screen Time. We Need to Talk About Screen Real Estate
Read more: Forget Screen Time. We Need to Talk About Screen Real EstateSpending many hours daily looking at screens feels like a foregone conclusion. The new challenge is paring down what fills them.
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‘Hear Me Out’: Meme Halloween Costumes Are So Last Decade
Read more: ‘Hear Me Out’: Meme Halloween Costumes Are So Last DecadeChronically online millennials turning memes into costumes used to be all the rage. Now, the TikTok generation has a new challenge to bring back some old classics.
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‘Trump Was Born to Be a Teenage Girl’ Is the Sarah Cooper Schtick for the ‘Brat’ Election
Read more: ‘Trump Was Born to Be a Teenage Girl’ Is the Sarah Cooper Schtick for the ‘Brat’ ElectionBack in 2020, Sarah Cooper’s “How to Medical” lip-sync of Donald Trump’s proposed Covid-19 cures went viral on social media. TikTok’s latest trend gives that schtick a new spin.
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The Dystopia of Watching Hurricane Milton on TikTok
Read more: The Dystopia of Watching Hurricane Milton on TikTokAs officials encouraged western Florida residents to evacuate from Hurricane Milton’s path, several folks stuck around and posted about the storm online—for better or worse.
