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Culture & Entertainment

Redefining Celebrity as Distance Disappears

In 2017, a 16-year-old girl named Emma Chamberlain uploaded her first YouTube video. The city-inspired lookbook, filled with a mid-2010s array of Brandy Melville and Pacsun, has now amassed almost…

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Culture & Entertainment

Let’s Stop Glorifying Men in Maid Outfits

In a TikTok with almost 2 million likes, user @plumsoju laments to the camera, “You say you want boys in a maid outfit. Why am I still single? Where’s my…

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Life

It’s Deeper Than Daisies: Marxism, Cottagecore, and Aesthetic Resistance

Sunlight streaming through the treetops, fresh bread baking, baby animals frolicking in fields—these are just a few of the images that characterize cottagecore, an emerging internet subculture dedicated to a…

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Fashion & Beauty

TikTok and the Never-Ending Perpetuation of Thrifted Glam

Up until about three weeks ago, I was a staunch TikTok skeptic. I refused to download the app, citing it as a mega-waste of time and something that I didn’t…

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Activism, News, & Politics

“WitchTok” and the New Wave of Political Spirituality

TikTok has become the home of modern witchcraft, with more and more “baby witches” joining “WitchTok” every day. United by an interest in the occult, these self-proclaimed witches will post…

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Culture & Entertainment

Cottagecore, Sans Cottage: The Real Ethos Behind a Blooming Subculture

It’s a fine summer evening. The pastures are saturated with lupine and aster, lending their sweetness to the breeze that sweeps in from the open window, ruffling the gauzy curtains.…

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Culture & Entertainment

Mental Illness TikToks: Coping Mechanism, or Just Concerning?

I’ll admit it: like many others, I’ve wasted way too many hours of my life scrolling through TikTok. Gone are the days of similar platforms like Vine or Musical.ly, which…

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