Evil Week: How to View Someone Else’s TikToks Anonymously
Welcome to Evil Week, our annual dive into all the slightly sketchy hacks we’d usually refrain from recommending. Want to weasel your way into free drinks, play elaborate mind games,…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Gen Z Goes to Work, Finds It Time-Consuming
This week, the whole internet is talking about one young woman’s journey into career disillusionment—specifically, her shocking discovery (shared via TikTok) that having a job cuts into your personal time…
The Right Way to Clean an Air Fryer
Photo: Casezy idea (Shutterstock) If you want to know how to clean an air fryer, don’t look to TikTok. You can look there for other hacks, sure, but for sprucing…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Do It for the Plot
Inspiration comes from unexpected places this week—places like an Indian restaurant in Bowling Green, Kentucky and TikTok’s recommendation algorithm. Young are people doing it for the plot, wallowing in their…
The Apple Watch SE Is $200 During October Prime Day
Image: Apple An Apple Watch can be your best friend, especially if you’re trying to limit your iPhone screen time. It lets you keep the endless TikTok scrolling at bay,…
These Latest Celebrity Deepfakes Show How Advanced Scams Have Become
As long as the web has existed, this advice has rung true: “Don’t believe everything you see on the internet.” Whether it’s a personal blog, a tweet, a YouTube video,…
Please Stop Ordering Off-Menu Crap You See on TikTok
Customization is cool, at least on TikTok. I’m old enough to remember a time when ordering In-N-Out fries “animal style” was a fast food in-crowd signifier of sorts. But now…
This Is the Most (and Least) Popular Slang for Each Generation
Photo: Josie Elias (Shutterstock) Much of the time, language evolves in subtle ways. New words and phrases enter our collective vocabulary through pop culture and current events—like “wardrobe malfunction” or…
TikTok Myth of the Week: Bananas Destroy the Nutrients in Smoothies
TikTok loves a banana smoothie. In a few minutes of scrolling you can see smoothie recipes, banana-freezing tips (peel it first!), and video after video of people with visible abs…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: ‘Starfield’ Reviews
Video game Starfield has shut down all activity among people who don’t have jobs this week. The kids are all off in their little rocket ships, and what little time…