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If you’ve spent even ten minutes on TikTok this summer, you’ve seen it: the hand-to-ear phone gesture, the bouncy beat, the snap transition that turns a messy d
Hot take: the "fit check" isn’t just about clout or a cute mirror selfie. It's a new language of status, and Gen Z is writing whole chapters of economic signali
Pinterest’s 2025 trend forecasts didn’t arrive as a whisper; they landed like a velvet-draped decree. The platform put the “Goddess Complex” front and center in
Remember when Instagram felt like a neighborhood — a linear, chronological scroll through the lives of people you actually followed? Those days are effectively
If you scrolled through Instagram in August 2025, you probably saw a dozen short Reels where creators looked straight at the camera and said, with genuine alarm
If you’ve scrolled through Reels lately, you’ve probably stumbled on a creator dramatically crumpling to the floor, shrieking into an empty room, or staging a c
TikTok in 2025 feels less like a single feed and more like a sprawling, living festival of microcultures. Your For You Page (FYP) is a mosaic of comedy one minu
If you’ve scrolled through TikTok lately, you’ve probably seen someone frozen mid-blink, repeating a phrase in a flat voice and twitching like a poorly coded vi
If you thought “swipe left” was the final word on dating app disdain, meet Red Flag Bingo — the low-effort, high-laughter pastime where Gen Z turns dating app d
If you hang out on TikTok for more than five minutes, you’ve probably noticed a quiet takeover: static slideshows and photo carousels stealing attention from fu
If you've spent any time on TikTok in the past few years, you’ve probably seen the “main character” trope: people framing mundane moments as cinematic beats, na
By 2025, LinkedIn stopped being just a place to upload résumés and collect recommendations — it became a stage. What started as earnest networking morphed into
Instagram Notes arrived quietly and quickly turned into a micro-stage for people to flex emotional one-liners, flirtatious baits, humblebrags, and the occasiona
By the summer of 2025, something rare and unmistakable happened in the world of digital romance: an entire generation collectively checked out. The headlines ca
If you make YouTube Shorts, you probably woke up one morning in 2025 to find your lifetime view counts ballooning while your channel’s money, subscribers, and r
If you grew up with Instagram in your pocket, you’ve learned to read people by their grid. Gen Z doesn’t just follow accounts — they follow archetypes. From the
Hot take: TikTok used to be about one person, one song, one moment. Now it feels like the whole app is begging your friends, your partner, or your followers to
In mid-January 2025, a weird, combustible thing happened on TikTok: creators who had spent years curating glossy, aspirational lives suddenly started confessing
If you opened TikTok in mid-2025 and felt like you’d stumbled into a slow-motion, wistful indie film montage, you weren’t alone. A surprising cultural loop-back
The clickbait headlines write themselves: “AI influencers are flopping,” “Virtual creators exposed as frauds,” “Brands duped by digital catfish.” But as anyone