In 2019, Myka Stauffer was the voice behind a fairly successful family vlogging channel. She posted about her husband, children, and parenting journey to close to 700,000 subscribers on YouTube and with support from major brands like Pampers, Walmart, and Fabletics. No topic was off limits, so when she adopted …
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Never discount the resolve of the American spirit in the face of adversity — in this case, the determination to learn a little bit of Mandarin Chinese to make navigating the popular TikTok alternative RedNote a little bit easier. Duolingo, the popular language learning app, revealed yesterday (Jan. 15) that …
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There’s a scene in A Complete Unknown where Bob Dylan shows up to a party late and leaves shortly after arriving. The biopic seems to have really captured his true essence, since he essentially just did the same with TikTok. The short-form video platform is expected to be banned in …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. As the looming Jan. 19 deadline draws ever nearer for TikTok to be banned in the United States, it looks like we collectively have to decide which new …
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When Octavia Butler published 1993’s Parable of the Sower — a sci-fi novel about California burning in 2024, following a presidential election of a candidate whose slogan is “Make America Great Again”— her intentions weren’t to prophesize, but rather make an observation backed by historical research and future optimism. “Parable …
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In the first verse of “I’d Rather Be Me” from the musical Mean Girls, there’s a note that’s frankly a bit too high for your average voice to sustain. It requires a clear tone and solid belt —a vocal technique that comes from using your chest voice to hit a …
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TikTok could be banned in the United States in a little over a week. Its last hope to stay in app stores is the Supreme Court, which on Friday heard oral arguments in the massively popular platform’s case to block the law that could lead to its digital excommunication. The …
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Think of all the average trash a person goes through in one day: Straw wrappers, stickers, receipts, plastic, paper, coffee cups, bags, tags, the whole lot. Now imagine pasting every one of those things in a journal and you’ve got down the basic tenets of junk journaling,TikTok’s newest trend, and …
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Bad Bunny is crying tears of joy. The Latin star posted a short TikTok video of himself tearing up with the simple caption “tik tok” in response to a new trend on the app, which is centered around the title track from his new album Debí Tirar Más Fotos. TikTok …
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President-elect Donald Trump, who signed an executive order in 2020 that threatened to ban the use of TikTok, urged the Supreme Court to let him “save” the social media platform. A nationwide TikTok ban is set to go into effect starting Jan. 19, if its Chinese parent company doesn’t sell …
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