There’s more drama in TikTok’s beauty community this week, and like all serious matters, it revolves around a new mascara. On Tuesday, TikTok star and beauty guru Mikayla Nogueira posted a 44-second TikTok video reviewing the new L’Oreal Telescopic Lift mascara. After stitching another creator’s video, Nogueira tried the mascara …
Read More »Randy Gonzalez, Father in TikTok Duo Enkyboys, Dead at 35
Randy Gonzalez, the father in the popular TikTok duo Enkyboys, has died at the age of 35. Gonzalez’s brother David confirmed to CBS News that Randy died from colon cancer Wednesday, a week after Randy was put in hospice care. Gonzalez shared in April last year that he had been …
Read More »The 'If I Go Missing' Folder Is One TikTok Trend Worth Taking Seriously
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. TikTok isn’t just about pushing air fryers and celebrity (kid) trends these days — the site is also sparking much-needed conversations about personal safety. The latest TikTok trend: …
Read More »How the 'Pink Sauce' Chef Survived Her Downfall
Last year had memorable internet food scandals. There was alarm at Bon Appétit‘s Brad Leone allegedly putting viewers at risk of botulism with the way he cooked on his YouTube series It’s Alive. People blamed severe illnesses and emergency surgeries on the meal kit brand Daily Harvest‘s lentiland leekcrumbles. And …
Read More »Why Are People on TikTok Making Fan Edits of Anne Frank?
Most reasonable people view the tale of Anne Frank, the young Jewish woman who died at the Nazis’ Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945, as a a tragic story of a young, vibrant woman with unlimited talent and potential, whose life was woefully cut short by forces of evil. But the …
Read More »Students Can Carry Guns at the University of Texas — But They Can't Use TikTok
“You are no longer able to access TikTok on any device if you are connected to the university via its wired or WIFI networks.” So reads a notice that appears on the devices of students at the University of Texas at Austin after the school announced it would be blocking …
Read More »TikTok's True Crime Community Is Turning on Idaho Murder Survivors
The Nov. 13 discovery of four dead University of Idaho students shocked the community of Moscow, Idaho. But on TikTok, the murders jump-started the app’s true crime engine: a web of amateur sleuths who quickly went to work absorbing, spreading, and dissecting all available information. It was six weeks before …
Read More »Shanquella Robinson's Family Demands Answers for Her 26th Birthday
It’s been 10 weeks since 25-year-old Charlotte braider Shanquella Robinson died on a trip to Cabo San Lucas Mexico, and on what would have been her 26th birthday, her family is still asking for answers. Robinson’s friends and family gathered at her grave Sunday to release balloons and celebrate the …
Read More »Jan. 6 Committee Experiment Found TikTok Went From Zero To Nazi in 75 Minutes
When the Jan. 6 committee wanted to test how easy it was for TikTok users to wander down a far-right rabbit hole, they tried an experiment. They created Alice, a fictional 41-year-old from Acton, Massachusetts, gave her a TikTok account, and tracked what the social media app showed her. To …
Read More »Andy Cohen Hates the Dead Celeb TikTok Prank So Much He's Swearing on Live TV
Andy Cohen, fresh off a tragically sober and subdued New Year’s Eve Live on CNN, returned to his home turf of Bravo, where he got suitably loose with his language while railing against the dead celebrity TikTok prank on Watch What Happens Live. The prank was the subject of Cohen’s …
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