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Bolivian car thieves are broadcasting their heists on TikTok

A lot of towns change in sight and sound come the weekend but none quite like Challapata. Visit this stretch in the Bolivian Oruro region with its 8,000 person populace on any weekday and you won’t witness much. Visit on ...

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Failed Social Media: 10 companies who tried to beat Facebook

Whatever else may be said about Facebook, its durability has to be lauded in an era when every man and their dog is inventing start-ups. For nearly two decades, Facebook has either grown alongside, or fended off altogether, social media ...

The 10 best TikTok communities you never even knew existed

Outsiders to the app may find the idea of a ‘TikTok community’ bizarre. Isn’t it just a bunch of 14-year-olds dancing? People who don’t know what POV means? How low is the bar for the term ‘community’ if this can ...

10 of the weirdest TikTok accounts you can’t unsee

Throughout the 2010s, spotless and sun-kissed social media posts became the norm. If you weren’t in Dubai, or didn’t have abs, or weren’t sponsoring a celebrity energy drink, there was really no point in posting anything towards the end of ...

10 Spotify playlist ideas to inspire you

Everyone’s looking for a killer playlist idea. Done right, you and others around the world can rely on it for years to come. There are pre-existing playlists, of course – Spotify alone is home to around 80 billion! That’s a ...

TikTok won’t die like Vine – Here’s why

The second any new social media platform hits the app store, an interrogation begins. What’s the point? How does it work? People either don’t want to waste their time with a schlocky student invention that’s going to commit data breaches, ...

Why is Jake Paul boxing? – The Pauls’ latest moneyspinner

In August 2018, something strange happened. The boxing world opened its door, or ropes, to a group of YouTube vloggers. The previous year had seen the novelty bout between Floyd Mayweather and UFC’s Conor McGregor, but an amateur fight between ...

TikTok’s most popular couples (and how they met!)

Thought it was all about Beyonce and Jay Z, did you? Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson? Zendaya and Spider-Man? Why not join the rest of us over here in 2022, dinosaurs. These days, if you aren’t a TikTok couple, you ...

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The most cringeworthy politician moments on social media

One the one hand, politicians ought to be respected. Here they are, getting out in front of the vicious public, putting their reputations and livelihoods on the line, on the off-chance they make the country that little bit better for ...

Why is roller skating trending again? – TikTok Explained

During the pandemic, millions found themselves looking back to simpler times: personal photos, old TV shows, anything to get their heads away from current, troubling developments. They baked bread; they hosted virtual pub quizzes. Over on TikTok, they got really ...

Domestic Bliss: How ‘Cottagecore’ took over TikTok

Though ‘Cottagecore’ might sound like a phrase you’d see in a top-shelf magazine, it’s actually a wholesome (often cloyingly so) culture made up of like-minded millennials and zoomers longing for escape to a sunny world where everything is green and ...

The risks of showing your face on TikTok and how to avoid it

Internet anonymity has always been a two-sided coin. On the one hand, it protects law-abiding individuals from shady types and stalkers, and keeps you and your friends from having your photos saved and shared in circles you wouldn’t want them ...

TikTok ‘shadowban’: What it means and what to do about it

TikTok’s main appeal is the idea that anybody can hit the big time. If the algorithm so chooses, your content could be put at the top of the ‘For You’ scroll and turn you into a star overnight. You could ...

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Do Snapchat filters work on cats? Here’s a purrfect list

Thought Snapchat was dead? Think again. Admittedly, the ten-year-old app has had a bit of a topsy-turvy relationship with the general public. In the beginning, it was a revolution. You send a photo, and then it vanishes forever? Snapchat’s simple ...

What is WitchTok and why is it trending? – TikTok Explained

We need to talk about witches. Not the ones from yesteryear, who were chastised and ceremoniously drowned. Today’s witches get off a lot easier than their forebears. Why? Because they’re on TikTok. Instead of skulking around medieval towns causing panic ...

California Proud: TikTokers who live in the Golden State

Why California? Simple question, unsure answer. Why is it that most of the entertainment industry, whether it be movies, music, and now social media, is based out of the Golden State? How come Illinois or Florida wasn’t made the designated ...

The cutest TikTok ideas that all couples should try

Unless there’s a tech underdog out there who gets blessed by the Gods with a great idea and supernatural marketing skills, TikTok is going to remain the planet’s most popular app. Its stratospheric rise is like nothing we’ve ever seen ...

Why do people dance on TikTok? – How it started

Around 1 billion people across the world are TikTok users. In 2021, the app generated an estimated $4.6 billion revenue, a 142% increase year-on-year. In Q4 2021, it had 1.2 billion monthly active users and is expected to reach 1.5 ...

Think TikTok is for kids? Think again

Once upon a time, at the height of its Wild West phase, parents would do anything they could to keep their little ones away from the internet. Computers, hard drives, floppy disks – these were the buzzwords of a new ...

Are TikTok and Douyin the same? What’s the difference?

TikTok, one of the fastest-growing video-sharing apps, if not the fastest in general, has an odd quirk that distinguishes it from the likes of Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook. Despite being owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance, the platform is ...

A complete list of of every Shane Dawson controversy

At 20 million subscribers, Shane Dawson is one of YouTube’s popular stars. He’s also one of its most controversial. Over the course of the 2010s, the American vlogger has gotten himself into a whole manner of trouble. Dawson’s controversies include ...