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By August 2025, TikTok gave us another miniature genre of romance: the 'couples running' clip. At first glance these sequences look spontaneous: a playful chase
If you've been scrolling TikTok in the last year, you've probably seen it: a partner gets a five-second head start, “Bad Boys (Theme from Cops)” kicks in, and e
If you’ve spent any time scrolling TikTok since early August 2025, you’ve seen it: the five-second head start, the guilty laugh, the “Bad Boys (Theme from Cops)
TikTok couples are a cultural specimen at this point: simultaneously aspirational, performative, and wildly entertaining. Over the past two years I watched the
Every so often a TikTok trend arrives that looks silly on the surface but winds up revealing something deeper about how we relate to one another. The “couples r
If you’ve been scrolling TikTok lately, you’ve probably seen dozens — if not hundreds — of couples sprinting down sidewalks, through grocery aisles, or across b