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On TikTok, Music Producers Are Moving From the Background to the Spotlight
Independent artists share the highs and lows of posting beats on TikTok.
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BookTok’s Infatuation With ‘Sad Girl’ Novels Is As Complex as the Books Themselves
Readers toe the line between commiserating with and romanticizing mental illness.
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Salary Transparent Street Is Demystifying Wages on TikTok
It’s hard to ask how much a person makes. Our society has drilled into our brains that it’s taboo to disclose your salary to your coworkers, friends, or random strangers. But the plight of the worker has evolved over the past decade, alongside social media and the world wide web. Starting in the spring of…
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After Womblands Threw Their Community Into Chaos, Call-Out Creators Face an Existential Crisis
They claim to expose bigotry on TikTok—but are they doing more harm than good?
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Former TikTok Employees Speak Out Against the Global Social Media Company’s Stressful Work Culture (Updated)
‘A high level of personal sacrifice is required to work at TikTok.’
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‘The Company Did So Little To Protect Her’: She Was a Fictional Teen TikTok Star. Then She Got Found Out
Nancy Kimball received backlash for playing the teen daughter of a murderer.
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Mini Brands Are a Major TikTok Sensation
TikTok is perhaps one of the only places you will hear someone enthusiastically say, “Ooh, some Axe deodorant!” in the year of our Lord 2021. It’s not what you’d think, however, since it’s not really Axe deodorant. It’s a shrunken-down version, packaged in a tiny capsule ball—a Mini Brand. And a hard-to-find one at that,…
