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October 7, 2022

Snorting Crushed Porcelain, Face Reveals and a TikTok Lawsuit

The week in internet things. Nobody is grinding up porcelain dishes into a fine powder and snorting it like cocaine. I repeat, nobody — not the […]
September 30, 2022

Hurricane Ian Brings Wind, Rain and TikTok Followers

Users livestreamed from their homes to document their experiences as they rode out the storm. Despite living in an evacuation zone, Alecsander Haake did not leave […]
September 16, 2022

For Gen Z, TikTok Is the New Search Engine

When Ja’Kobi Moore decided to apply this year to a private high school in her hometown of New Orleans, she learned that she needed at least […]
July 19, 2022

Sashay Away!

An erstwhile influencer from Fiji clocked 28 million page views with a homemade video of him strutting a runway wearing a ladder, a bench and other […]
June 29, 2022

These TikTok Creators Are Fighting Health Myths

Meet the medical experts fighting bogus science, one “stitch” at a time. “I’m willing to bet you know at least one girl that’s using steroids every […]
June 16, 2022

How TikTok Is Changing Marketing in the Music Industry and Beyond

Artists and civilians alike chafe at the pressures of presenting themselves online. In a TikTok post last month, the singer Halsey shared a message with fans: […]
June 9, 2022

Megan Thee Stallion, Bella Hadid, and Chloë Sevigny Appear In Mugler Video

Megan Thee Stallion, Bella Hadid and Chloë Sevigny appear in a viral video for Mugler. But who’s buying it? On Wednesday, Mugler released a video for […]
June 2, 2022

At Passionflix, Tosca Musk Streams Shows of ‘Toe Curling Yumminess’

LOS ANGELES — Tosca Musk is not particularly interested in space tourism or electric car manufacturing. She is not a rabble-rouser on Twitter who is now […]
May 28, 2022

Ted Sarandos Talks About That Stock Drop, Backing Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude

The Netflix executive says he — and the company he helped build — will survive a bout of bad earnings numbers. Maybe it was the tower […]
October 21, 2021

Blacktag, a New Streaming Service, Has Big Plans

A new streaming platform wants to be a destination for Black audiences around the world. When Ousman Sahko Sow and Akin Adebowale founded Blacktag in 2019, […]