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What Is Skinny House & Why Did It Go Viral, In This Economy?
Michelle Santiago...
Aug 12, 2020
Living
Twitter Will Now Let You Choose Who Can Reply To Your Tweets
Michelle Santiago...
Aug 11, 2020
Donald Trump
Things Just Got A Lot Worse In The Battle Between Trump & TikTok
Erin Corbett
Aug 7, 2020
Tech
Nintendo’s Profits Are Up 428% — That’s A Lot Of Bells
No one’s had a better financial year than Tom Nook, the proprietor who tasks you with building your own island village in Nintendo’s hit game Animal Cr
by
Whizy Kim
Instagram
Reese Witherspoon Started A New Instagram Challenge — & It’...
by
Hannah Rimm
News
Trump Lied About Children Getting Coronavirus So Facebook (Finall...
Facebook is finally taking action against the president’s falsehoods, despite Mark Zuckerberg’s previous firm stance to allow misleading content to con
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Erin Corbett
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Instagram
Instagram’s Reels Is Finally Here — But How Does It Compare...
Ban or no ban, the TikTokcracy is over. We started 2020 a world made up of TikTok users and non-users, and we’ve since settled into indefinite quaran
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Michelle Santiago...
TikTok
Is TikTok Really Going To Get Banned In The United States?
Things are moving fast with TikTok: On July 28, the Sway House boys announced they’re abandoning TikTok for competitor Triller and cited “priva
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Michelle Santiago...
TikTok
Move Over TikTok — Triller Is Taking Over
Triller is not playing games. In late July, TikTok’s infamous Sway House announced its new partnership with short-form video platform, Triller. That
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Michelle Santiago...
News
Why Trump Is REALLY Trying To Ban TikTok
President Donald Trump has made it clear in recent weeks that he wants to ban TikTok in the U.S. The White House even recently said that the timeline for i
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Asia Ewart
Beyonce
Beyoncé’s
Black Is King
Got Its Very Own Special T...
Beyoncé fans have spent a large chunk of today squealing with excitement. Black Is King, her much-anticipated new visual album, dropped on Disney+, and
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Olivia Harrison
Living
TikTok Bumps Its Creator Fund From $200 Million To $1 Billion
It’s a good time to be a popular TikTok creator. All the short-form video social media platforms are doing their best to lure in big names and their
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Michelle Santiago...
Tech
Gray Area: How Black & White Photography Became A Complicated Sym...
Have you been “challenged” yet? If you’re a woman with an Instagram account in the year of our lord 2020, then there’s a good chance you have been
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Cait Munro
TikTok
Biden Campaign Bans TikTok From Staff’s Personal & Work Phones
While a broad-sweeping TikTok ban still remains to be seen, the White House has made enough passing remarks to spook anyone into second-guessing their favo
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Michelle Santiago...
Coronavirus
Google Employees Will Work From Home Until At Least Next Summer
It’s been a subdued summer for most of us, with none of the usual vacation plans and get-togethers. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be making plans fo
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Whizy Kim
Living
TikTok Is Latest Social Media Platform To Crack Down On QAnon Con...
If 2020 is the year of lost control, this week, social media platforms are reaching out for what little control they can grasp. Earlier this week, we learn
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Michelle Santiago...
Tech
Twitter Cracks Down On QAnon, Banning Thousands Of Accounts
Twitter is banning thousands of accounts linked to QAnon content for violating the platform’s terms and conditions, specifically its rules against ta
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Michelle Santiago...
College
A Few Colleges Have Announced Tuition Discounts For Virtual Classes
As July nears its close, the question of college tuition becomes increasingly urgent. Most campuses will offer virtual classes, if not in addition to socia
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Michelle Santiago...
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TV Shows
15 Seconds Of Fame: The Future Of Reality TV Is On Our Phones
To see the future of reality TV, look down.
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Morgan Baila
TikTok
What Is Shadow Banning & Why Are TikTokers Complaining About It?
If you spend enough time on any of TikTok’s subkingdoms (except for Straight TikTok) you’ll likely come across a user’s desperate plea to have a post
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Michelle Santiago...
Best of Instagram
Instagram’s TikTok Competitor, Reels, Is Coming This August
Through all the mayhem surrounding TikTok these days, it’s worth remembering that TikTok is not the first nor last social media platform of its kind. Tik
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Michelle Santiago...
Pop Culture
Henry Cavill Is Breaking The Internet For…Building Computers?
In these uncertain times, the world looks for a hero to step up and save the day. And while former Superman Henry Cavill may have hung up his cape a while
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Natalie Morin
TikTok
White House Says Decision On TikTok Ban Will Come In A Matter Of ...
Update: This story was originally published on July 16 at 3:46 p.m. ET. It has since been published with statements from TikTok. It would be unwise to take
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Michelle Santiago...
Best of Instagram
Gen Z Is Revitalizing Instagram With “What __ R U” Na...
This story was originally published on July 14, 2020. It’s been a while since an Instagram trend really took off. But recently, a series of posts followi
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Michelle Santiago...
Living
Snapchat Is Testing A Feature That Will Make It More Like TikTok
When news hit that the Trump administration was contemplating a TikTok ban, all kinds of alternative apps saw an opportunity. After TikTok was banned in In
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Michelle Santiago...
Food & Drinks
Actually, Everything Is Made Out Of Cake
Crocs, a Rubik’s Cube, a roll of toilet paper, a scented candle, a can of White Claw, a cup of coffee in a dainty floral mug, a heavily tattooed human ar
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Cait Munro
Work & Money
I Became A Cam Girl Because Of COVID-19
Hannah* had it all planned: The 22-year-old Torontonian was going to spend the summer working in a clothing store to pay down her student loans and save so
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Ann Marie Elpa
iPhone
Why So Many Apps Are Crashing On iPhones Today
On Friday morning, thousands of iPhone users woke up to find that a lot of their go-to apps were crashing. The affected apps so far include Spotify, Pinter
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Michelle Santiago...
Entertainment
You’ll Be Mad You’re Not Competing In This Sims Reali...
March’s sweeping shelter-in-place order triggered a spike in video game downloads and purchases. From Animal Crossing to Fortnite, we gave ourselves
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Michelle Santiago...
Food & Drinks
Uber Is Launching A Grocery Delivery Service
Grocery delivery services are as old as grocery stores themselves. But our months-long stint of shelter-in-place order compliance changed how most of us pr
by
Michelle Santiago...
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