At the end of September, TikTok trumpeted a pair of milestones. First, the company announced it had over a billion monthly active users worldwide. Second, the wildly popular short-form video app-turned-cultural juggernaut was preparing its first-ever NFT collection, diving into a buzzy new technology that would allow any well-heeled consumer …
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Who’s more culturally relevant: Taylor Lautner from theTwilightfranchise, or Jar-Jar Binks fromThe Phantom Menace? This is just one of the myriad questions explored by the second episode ofDon’t Let This Flop,the newRolling Stonepodcast about TikTok and internet culture, hosted by senior writers Brittany Spanos and Ej Dickson and brought to …
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As a millennial who spends an inordinate amount of time scrolling through TikTok, I’m often approached by my peers in hushed, slightly embarrassed tones to explain or comment on various Gen Z ephemera. Usually, there’s a modicum of sociocultural context I can provide, which mostly amounts to explaining who Addison …
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Justin Bieber will perform his 2013 collection Journals for the first time as part of TikTok’s Valentine’s Day programming. The concert, streamed “live from Drew House,” will take over Bieber’s TikTok account on February 14th at 6 p.m, PST. The performance will mark the first-ever long-form concert event in the …
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Jvanz is a 20 year-old aspiring artist from St. Catherines, Ontario with a flexible voice and a lancing falsetto. He released his first EP in 2019, but like thousands of artists who upload their music to Spotify daily, no one cared. “There’s a lot of competition,” Jvanz says. “You can’t …
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Last August, Tenley, 18, met her ex-boyfriend through her circle of friends. At first, she says, he seemed “like a completely and normal nice guy”: He was a pastor’s son, charming and attentive. “He told me at the beginning he was overprotective, but it was in a charming sort of …
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On Sunday night, Justin Bieber hopped on Instagram to announce his latest musical crush to 106 million followers. “This shit bangs,” the star wrote, flashing a picture of Lil Nas X‘s “Old Town Road.” Lil Nas X’s genre-defying creation blends banjo strums and jaw-rattling bass, rural imagery and hip-hop signifiers. …
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