What was really going on when Lauren Zarras visited her boyfriend Robbie at college, surprising him while he sat on a couch with three girls? What was meant to be a sweet, heartwarming video turned into the internet’s hottest relationship scandal, with millions of TikTokers picking apart whether the 20-second …
Read More »Are Sex-Negative 'Puriteens' Actually Taking Over the Internet?
There’s a tendency among the geriatric users of the internet (namely, people 25 and older) to develop a bizarre fixation on the sexual habits of younger people. Often, this manifests in a slow-moving, primordial sludge of concern-trolling trend pieces that gripe about zoomers either having too much casual sex, or …
Read More »RS Charts: Lil Tjay and 6lack's 'Calling My Phone' Storms to Number One
Lil Tjay‘s “Calling My Phone,” a mournful collaboration with the singer 6lack, debuted at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart. Lil Tjay initially teased the track, which concerns the messy aftermath of a breakup, online back in December. When it finally came out, it racked up …
Read More »With TikTok's Fate Uncertain, Artists Test Instagram Reels
The music industry is not known for immediately embracing new technology. So it was a surprise that last month, as Miley Cyrus prepared to release “Midnight Sky,” her first solo single in almost exactly a year, the singer was teasing the track through Reels, a new feature of Instagram that …
Read More »TikTok Responds After Trump Says He Will Ban App in U.S.
Following news late Friday that President Donald Trump plans to ban TikTok in the U.S., the popular social media app responded to Trump’s claim, with U.S. general manager Vanessa Pappas taking to the platform to tell TikTok users it will not be leaving the U.S., and that TikTok is a …
Read More »TikTok Bans QAnon Hashtags
TikTok, which has recently played host to an explosion of QAnon-related content, has removed hashtags associated with the movement due to such content violating its guidelines. Searches for the hashtags #OutOfShadows, #FallCabal, and #QAnonTruth now yield zero results, as do searches for the hashtags #wwg1wga and #QAnon. As Rolling Stone …
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