youth culture
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Dear Paramount: Stop Trying to Make TikTok Movies Happen, They’re Not Going to Happen
Paramount uploaded Mean Girls to TikTok in 23 separate parts in a desperate attempt to make the already-quotable movie even more viral.
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TikTok Is Going to Sell Cheap Junk in Competition With Shein and Temu
TikTok is set to launch an e-commerce platform to sell Chinese-made goods to its millions of American users, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. The new shopping experience is a new attempt by TikTok to compete with Shein and Temu, two Chinese companies dominating the online retail scene with fast fashion…
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TikTok Ousts Marketing Guy Responsible for TikTok Kitchens and Other Weird Stunts
The marketing lead behind some of TikTok’s wackiest ideas — from NFTs to ghost kitchens and more — was abruptly ushered out of the company, according to multiple reports. The Information was first to report that marketing chief Nick Tran had abruptly departed from the company yesterday, followed by a confirmation from the New York…
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Instagram, the Internet’s Cool Mum, Leaves Up Videos Encouraging Kids to Steal From School
Like an ageing water park, Facebook owes its continued existence to occasionally throwing in a new wave pool (Instagram) and then spending most of the rest of its days sipping a cold one and paying the settlements on the injury lawsuits, safe in the knowledge that it’s the only game in town. Now that a…