Thursday, June 8, 2023
It has been a debate for the past few years on whether TikTok should be banned in the United States. The online social media platform gained immense popularity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and has since grown in users. Concerns about TikTok have risen from its parent company, ByteDance, being based […]
Meghan Trainor may have “Made You Look,” but was she able to make you listen? If you’ve been active on TikTok over the past two weeks, I’m sure you can’t get the lines “I could have my Gucci on / I could wear my Louis Vuitton / But even with […]
A few months ago, I worked at a children’s birthday party. The birthday girl was turning seven years old, and I painted her and her friends’ nails and helped with crafts, like slime making. I was beyond shocked when in the middle of the party, several of the kids pulled […]
Photo courtesy of Donnie Ray Jones, Flickr. Whenever I’m on TikTok, I watch content from some of my favorite TikTok moms. I check in on Lena and her jokes, I see if Franklin has started to talk yet and I watch Maia make “babas” for her babies nicknamed “Scotch” and […]
Photo courtesy of MCanzi, Flickr. The unconstrained nature of the internet means that there is space for every kind of community imaginable on social media. From communities that share racial backgrounds to communities united by having the same career, the list is just as endless as that digital space. It also […]
Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Television, Flickr. The text-to-speech feature on TikTok has become such an integral feature on the app. I personally cannot think of a video on my feed that does not utilize this feature. Recently, Disney has released the option for users to have some popular […]
Photo Courtesy of Solen Feyissa, Unsplash Social media is an effective way to rapidly share useful information to a broad audience. From recipes to lifehacks, a wide variety of advice is spread online and applied in real life, every day. Recently, a teenage girl used a hand signal she learned […]
Photo courtesy of cottonbro, Pexels. TikTok usage exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. The app was downloaded over 850 million times in 2020 and the active user base is anticipated to pass 1 billion members by 2022. This trend is no surprise. Isolation caused by the pandemic has inspired people to turn […]
Photo courtesy of Sarah Winterman, Flickr. The troubled teen industry has come under fire for traumatizing young teenagers over the years. This extremely problematic industry has been defined by the National Youth Rights Association as “boot camps, behavior modification facilities, wilderness therapy, gay conversion… marketed to parents who feel […]
Photo courtesy of Troy Larson, wiki. Over the summer, a clip from rock band Greta Van Fleet's performance on “Saturday Night Live'' in 2019 went viral on TikTok. The clip was of lead singer Josh Kiszka performing the song "You're the One.” The humor most people found in it was the […]
