For content creators, Jan. 19 isn’t just the day before President Donald Trump takes office. It’s the day they could lose TikTok — and the financial freedom it’s brought some of them in the process. The holiday season has been full of Hail Mary attempts from ByteDance, the Chinese parent …
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BookTok, TikTok’s book community, is a side of the video app that revels in the far reaches of what the reading world can offer. There’s a section for everyone: comedy, lit-fit, science fiction, celebrity memoir, body horror, smutty fantasy, sports romances, and even sexy stories about women falling in lust …
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TikTok’s future in the United States is in serious jeopardy, and Donald Trump may be the only person who can save it. The president-elect told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Monday that he would “take a look” at the situation surrounding the platform’s future, before meeting with TikTok CEO Shou Zi …
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“If you can name the artist, you win five bucks.” This is how Track Star, one of the most popular gameshows on TikTok, captures its audience now half a million followers:with a recognizable hook and an outstretched hand. For each episode, host Jack Coyne walks around New York City and …
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There have been countless renditions of Madonna’s 1989 hit single “Like a Prayer.” But if you open TikTok right now, chances are the one that will come up fastest is a choral version recorded for Marvel’s recent film Deadpool & Wolverine. And the Muppet that pops up with it? Well, …
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Hannah Hiatt, an influencer on TikTok, is being investigated after police and Child Protective Services received reports over video she shared of her son flinching in an interaction with his father that went viral, People reports. “There is a detective assigned to the case,” a spokesperson for the Ogden, Utah, …
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The D.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a law that would ban TikTok in the United States unless its Chinese parent company ByteDance sells the popular social media platform. In a Friday ruling, Senior Judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote that “the portions of the [Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications …
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“WATCH FOR 5 SECONDS TO PAY OFF HIS MEDICAL BILLS,” the text over Alexis Pruitt’s TikTok video reads. Speaking straight to the camera, Pruitt says she and her young kids are going to have a dance party and they hope you’ll stay and watch. The video cuts to Pruitt’s children, …
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When Emily Bear and Abigail Barlow were hit with a lawsuit from Netflix, it felt like their lives were over. Before they were Barlow & Bear, the two songwriters and composers were working in separate parts of the music industry from a young age. But after meeting in 2019, they …
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The holidays call for family feasts, and everyone wants to bring the killer side dish that the table can’t stop raving about. Mac and cheese is a natural crowd-pleaser: hearty, homey, vegetarian, and — crucially — hard to mess up. Sure, we can have our disagreements about the little touches …
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