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Jonas Brothers reenact decade-old Kardashian brawl on TikTok

January 15, 2020, 1:02 pm
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The Jonas Brothers reminded everyone of a long-forgotten Kardashian throwdown this week by recreating it on TikTok.

The year was 2008. Quaint times, in retrospect. The E! network was airing the second season of a little show called Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which had effectively introduced America to the offspring and ex-wife of the dude who helped get O.J. Simpson off of double homicide charges. The Kardashian sisters—Kim, Kourtney, and Khloé—were ostensibly still getting accustomed to their newfound fame, which is perhaps why a fight between the girls broke out in the aptly-titled season 2 episode, “Kardashian Civil War.”

In the episode, Kim purchases her first Bentley, to the ire of her sisters Kourtney and Khloé, for some reason.

“Don’t be fucking rude,” Kim says, storming into the room and swatting Khloé with her purse. “Are you kidding me? Stop! What are you doing,” yelps Khloe, who attempts to grab the improvised weapon. “I swear to god, I’ll fucking hurt you,” snaps Kim, punching her sister in her arm grasping the bag. “Don’t do that … you fucking bitch.”

On Monday, Nick, Joe, and Kevin Jonas of the Jonas Brothers recreated the fight in a clip uploaded to TikTok. “Don’t be rude!” the bros captioned the video, which they also shared on Twitter.

In the reenactment, Joe plays the part of Kim Kardashian, who flounces into a room with a jacket over his shoulders. “Don’t be fucking rude!” he lip syncs to the dubbed-over dialogue, smacking his brother who is decked out in a bedazzled fringe leather jacket.

At the end of the video, Kevin quickly saunters by in the foreground with a perfect WorldStarHipHop reaction.

Not surprisingly, fans were quickly won over by the clip. “Reason 1047290193 why I Stan so hard,” wrote one Twitter user, while another added, “Actually love this [not gonna lie].”

And for anyone who thought maybe the Kardashians would object to a decade-plus old clip of them literally committing physical acts of violence against one another—well, you’ve severely underestimated the sisters’ fondness for attention.

Both Kim and Khloé shared the Jonas Brothers’ tweet, along with their resounding approval. “OMGGGG I love you guys,” Kim tweeted.

Even KUWTK executive producer Ryan Seacrest weighed in, quipping: “This week on…. Keeping Up With the Jonas Brothers.”

The following day, the Jonas Brothers teased a clip of their single along with a new video dropping later this week for “What a Man Gotta Do.” While they didn’t necessarily need the additional hype, it certainly couldn’t hurt.

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Angel Mamii and John Dees conquered TikTok. Now what?

January 16, 2020, 4:00 am
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At this point, do the masterminds behind TikTok account Angelmamii7 need an introduction? Anointed by the internet as genius, Angel Mamii and John Dees’ TikTok videos ripple across pop culture and receive a lot of attention. From people claiming they’re revolutionizing sketch comedy to crowning them the first TikTok auteur, the couple have tapped into something that both surprises and resonates with denizens of the internet.

Their work is hard to describe. The best way to understand it is by watching one of their videos.

In her first video to go viral, Angel and her son have a dialogue about chargers in a store aisle. That sounds like it should be a fairly boring, normal conversation, right? Nope. The two teeter between being seemingly in on the joke—that there’s no point in the video— to delivering the lines with aplomb. The lines veer off track like a Sims character going rogue and every second of the exchange cartwheels somewhere unexpected. And, remember, the whole conversation revolves around chargers. 

On a platform where trending challenges dominate the content, Angelmamii7’s videos provide the gleeful, refreshing experience of something that rejects having a point or easy digestibility as a necessity. 

Angel and John met last year at a TikTok creator meetup. But before creating content together, and even being on TikTok, they started out on Musical.ly, TikTok’s previous incarnation. Musical.ly blew up amongst teenagers who used the app to film short lip syncs to songs. Then in 2018, ByteDance bought Musical.ly, merged it with another company, and rebranded it as TikTok. 

“I got into Musical.ly because of my daughter. We were doing videos together,” John told the Daily Dot. Both John and Angel weren’t creating any content close to what they make on TikTok now. “We were doing lip sync videos, which you know, is what Musical.ly was known for,” said Angel. 

“When they were closing down [Musical.ly] accounts, I had to make a new account [on TikTok]. I lost all of my old accounts’ followers, but that turned out to be a fortunate thing,” Angel added.

A very fortunate thing, indeed. Angelmamii7 boasts over 600,000 followers, and it all stemmed from two fateful videos reposted on Twitter. The first being the chargers video, and the second being a video revolving around milk.  

John said that when he saw the chargers video Angel filmed, his response was, “This makes no sense, but it’s funny?” The reception was unexpected. “We had no idea it blew up until people started emailing Angel, asking her about a video on Twitter,” he said.

And no, Angel did not write a script for either the chargers or milk video. In general, Angel and John don’t prepare beforehand for their videos. They usually drive around, pick a location, and start improvising. “We are also self-aware, aware that the videos don’t make sense, which is also something that everybody wants to know,” John said.

Another trademark of Angelmamii7 videos are the videos’ settings in shopping centers and malls that feel ubiquitous. Literally, they could be filming in any supermarket located in any part of the country. “Someone suggested that these were good locations because the algorithm likes them, and that’s why we initially started at stores,” John explained. Fair enough. Next, they plan to try out abandoned locations. “Angel likes horror and we’re thinking of doing more,” he said. “We recently did one where we were stuck in the elevator.” Angel added, “I like Freddy Krueger, Friday the 13th, and that stuff.” 

Strangely, horror is a genre that seems like an easy crossover for Angel and John. Even though most people would agree they produce comedy, their videos contain elements of uncanniness or at least inspire a sense of hilarious discomfort. For example, mid-way through the chargers video, Angel’s son says, “Androids are trash. They make a living.” Angel then responds, “Obviously, iPhone make a living too. Are you ready to cash out?” What does this exchange mean? What does “Androids make a living” mean? What do Angel and her son know about Android and Apple that we don’t? 

“I truthfully needed chargers that day,” Angel said. “My son asked me if we were going to make a video before we leave and I said, OK! Take the camera and film!” Of the Android and iPhones lines, they were “trying to say Androids and iPhones will always be in business! But from our experience with Androids they always broke down, they were slow and not as advanced as the iPhones we have now! But there is no hate on Androids because they are still making a living and will always be in business!”

She concludes, “That just came to our heads and honestly I didn’t know it was going to go viral like it did! But someone had to say it!”

Angel and John also aren’t stopping at TikTok. They also have a YouTube channel called Johns and Angels World. The couple explained why they opened the channel, recalling what happened with Vine. “YouTube is more stable of a platform than Vine—which closed down.” It’s also a way to consistently monetize views on their content since there’s no way for them to do so on TikTok. 

John said they’ll post mostly vlogging, skits, and behind-the-scenes content this year. That includes a longer-form skit that will be exclusive to their YouTube channel—of which they have released two episodes.

There’s not a specific YouTuber or channel style that the skit takes inspiration from. Angel stated that she doesn’t watch much YouTube content and mainly watches music videos on the platform. But she added that she loves Lele Pons and hopes to collaborate with her one day. “I’m going to hit her up once I get that verification check,” she said. John, on the other hand, mainly watches vloggers—Roman Atwood and Shaytards are a few names that he throws out. He’s also a big fan of King Bach for comedy content.

And the couple may expand their videos beyond YouTube. “We’re interested in short films, movies, and T.V. shows,” said John. “We’re not there yet, but of course we’d love to.”

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Teen moms, and their hilarious photos, are all the rage on TikTok

January 16, 2020, 8:12 am
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A new trend is taking over TikTok, highlighting teen moms.

Parents who had children in their teenage years are taking to the platform to recreate photos from their early days as parents. The results are funny and heartwarming, showcasing the struggle of early motherhood—and occasionally fatherhood—particularly as a teenager. The videos are set to “I’m Just A Kid” by the early-2000s pop-punk band, Simple Plan.

Often, the videos involve moms—now well past their teenage years—scooping up partially grown children to recreate photos. In the original pictures, nearly every young parent looks terrified, confused, or utterly exhausted. Sometimes all three.

In some cases, the videos revealed how completely unprepared these teens were to be parents. (That is not how you hold a baby.)

Even though some of these teen moms appeared to be thoroughly unprepared when their tots were first born, they are thriving now. Dozens of videos of happy families have been making the rounds.

They may have been young when they had children, but these TikTok users seem to be crushing parenthood.

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Teen’s TikTok sends powerful message about domestic violence

January 16, 2020, 9:22 am
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A teenager’s video on TikTok has gone viral for its message about domestic violence. 

Amber, who is reportedly known for her makeup videos on the platform, shared a video of herself lip-syncing to “Not Fair” by Lily Allen, the New York Post reported.  

The video starts with the teen seeming happy, but as the song progresses, bigger and darker wounds appear on her face. The contradiction of her bruises growing as she sings “Oh he treats me with respect,” and “He says he loves me all the time” is haunting—and serves as a reminder that domestic violence often hides behind the guise of romance. 

“#pov your friend is trying to convince you the bruises you spotted aren’t from her boyfriend,” Amber wrote in the description of the video, which has since received more than 200,000 likes and been viewed more than 1.7 million times, according to the BBC.

“The message of the video is don’t ignore the signs of domestic abuse,” she told the BBC. “If you have the slightest concern, bring it up with the person.”

The video prompted many to share their personal accounts of surviving domestic violence. 

“Been here, came out the other side,” said one person, according to the BBC. 

Others thanked her. “This is so powerful,” one commenter said.

There was some debate on whether the clip should be on a video platform primarily designed for light-hearted lip-syncing. But it’s not the first time TikTok has hosted controversial content: In November, a Muslim teen’s video on China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims went viral on the platform. 

One person reportedly said domestic violence, “really does happen to people and they don’t make TikToks about it.”

On average, 20 people are abused every minute by a partner in the U.S. Amber’s video is a fitting metaphor of the crisis. 

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Teens are eating cereal out of each other’s mouths for clout

January 17, 2020, 8:34 am
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Teens and young people on the video-sharing platform TikTok are participating in a thoroughly odd new trend in which they… eat cereal? Out of each other’s mouths?

The extremely strange trend is spreading fast, with people all over taking the time to participate in the cereal challenge.

Seriously, don’t these people have bowls?

Many of the videos are quite successful, at least if you consider this extremely unsanitary act “successful.”

Some of the videos, however, fail quite spectacularly. This seems like a choking hazard.

One viewer adapted the challenge to enjoy a snow cone, rather than a bowl of cereal.

Maybe don’t try this at home. And since we know you won’t listen, at least try not to choke.

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TikTok dudes are dipping their balls in soy sauce for ‘science’

January 17, 2020, 9:49 am
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Two decades after sketch group the State declared, “I wanna dip my balls in it,” it’s become a challenge on TikTok.

According to BuzzFeed, a 2013 Daily Mail article that claims “Testicles have taste buds” seems to be the origin; it was recirculated by user @cryinginthecar, who asked anyone with testicles to dip them in something to test out the science.

This young man dabbed his testicles with soy sauce, which is reportedly one of the flavors they can taste, and apparently had a sensation.

Guys tried to joke about it, but there were also some Kombucha girl-level taste journeys.

Not everyone tried soy sauce.

Elsewhere, the need to know was causing some tension in relationships.

Fortunately, a hot doctor on TikTok was willing to step up and clarify this claim. BuzzFeed reached out to Dr. Kirten Parekh, a podiatrist in New Jersey, who responded to the original video. He claims that “just because you have taste buds in that area doesn’t mean you can physically taste those flavors. Your body might receive it, but you won’t have a perceptive taste of sweet, sour, or whatever flavor.” 

An article on MedicineNet, posted in response to the TikTok trend, claimed that while we do have taste receptors in the testes, brain, liver, bladder, and respiratory system, smell also plays an important role in what we taste: When you hold your nose while eating or drinking, the sense of taste is dulled. The article ends on a bigger question: “Do testicles sense smells?”

And now we await that TikTok challenge. But is it any weirder than people eating cereal out of each other’s mouths?

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Student says they were expelled for tricking teacher into making inappropriate TikTok

January 18, 2020, 10:26 am
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A high school student said they were expelled after they posted a TikTok featuring a teacher with a caption that criticizes female students for having sexual partners. The teacher seemed to be unaware of what the video would be about.

In the video, the teacher can be seen holding students’ papers and dancing while wearing sunglasses.

“Girls with 5+ bodies be like: I hope I did good on my quiz … Like bruh, you worried about the wrong test,” the video’s two captions read.

The captions insinuate that sexually active girls in the school should be more worried about STD test results than their quiz scores.

The video went viral on both TikTok, where other users are dueting it, and on Twitter.

“THIS IS A TEACHER?” Twitter user @longneckedbeck questioned.

 

Though outrage was first directed at the teacher, Twitter users quickly uncovered that the student involved was responsible for the caption, and the teacher had no idea what the video would be about when he agreed to be featured in.

Many are now worried that the teacher will be fired for the student’s actions.

“LMAO I swear if this guy gets fired imma be pissed,” Twitter user @hrez_ wrote.

Twitter user @pakejatton shared a screenshot of a comment from the alleged student who posted the video.

The student wrote that while they got expelled, the “teacher’s fine,” seemingly suggesting the teacher did not get in any trouble for the video.

The student’s TikTok video has since been removed.

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Actress slammed for ‘acid attack-face’ TikTok challenge

January 19, 2020, 7:46 am
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Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone turned one of her movie looks, an acid attack victim, into a challenge on TikTok, and people online are disgusted.

The challenge was based on Malti, a character from her new movie Chhapaak, which depicts the real-life story and emotional turmoil of Laxmi Agarwal, an Indian acid attack survivor.

In the TikTok video, Padukone asked a makeup artist to copy her favorite looks from three of her movies, Om Shanti Om, Piku, and Chhapaak. The look inspired by Chhapaak was of Malti and consisted of makeup to look like an acid attack victim. Padukone describes this “look” as one of her “favorites.”

Social media users are appalled and are shaming Padukone for her insensitivity and lack of awareness on the issue the movie is supposed to be highlighting.

Many claim the Bollywood star is trivializing the hardships of acid attack victims by minimizing them to “a look,” simply to use as a promotional stunt for her movie.

“This is disgusting ! Acid attack is not a makeup look deepika. So much for purpose and awareness. Never thought somebody will stoop so low for a hit film,” Twitter user @KangyStan wrote.

Twitter user @MarcoChaCha8 wrote an open letter to Padukone attacking her for insinuating there is any parallel to makeup and the harsh reality real acid attack survivors face.

“Dear Deepika Padukone, acid attack face isn’t a ‘look’. It’s a sad reality which a person has to live with rest of your life .. You can’t wash it off & no one got money like you get plastic surgeries. Your movie is bombing, it doesn’t mean you stop being sensitive & Human,” MarcoChaCha8 tweeted.

Another user, @PrinceArihan, implored Padukone to have more respect for Malti.

“This is deplorable. There is no fun mocking the face of acid victim even it is one of your favourite roles @deepikapadukone. Putting your name as Malti does not make you Malti. Respect her,” PrinceArihan tweeted.

Another user, @piyapiyanka, called Padukone out for  “fake crying” during an interview in which she seemed to genuinely empathize with acid attack victims.

“Imagine fake crying during every interview acting like you understand the pain of acid victims and when the movie flops you start making fun of acid attack face only deepika can relate She has no respect for acid attack victims so gross shame on you,” piyapiyanka tweeted.

This is not the first time Padukone has been criticized over her promotion of Chhapaak. Before the movie’s release date, Padukone visited Jawaharlal Nehru University, where acid attacks recently took place, to stand in solidarity with the students. Her visit was met with backlash.

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No, the first words of Trump’s tweets don’t match up to lyrics of ‘Break My Stride’

January 19, 2020, 8:28 pm
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A viral video appearing to show President Trump trolling the internet by making the first words of his tweets come together to match the lyrics of “Break My Stride” by Matthew Wilder has been proven to just be a made-up contribution to a TikTok challenge.

TikTok’s latest meme uses the 1983 song to trick friends and family. It starts with a person texting another the opening lyrics of the song, “Last night I had the strangest dream.” The objective is to try to keep the conversation going for as long as possible without the recipient catching on.

A video that makes it look like Trump jumped on the meme train himself was recently posted by TikTok user @dominic.debettencourt. Of course, people who actually use TikTok were quick to realize it was all part of the current trend, but all bets were off once the video migrated over to Twitter.

All it takes is a quick perusal of Trump’s tweets (if you can bear it) to realize the words of his tweets have been changed to match up with the lyrics of the song. But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from social media over the past decade, it’s that people absolutely hate fact-checking, whether it’s over something important or something silly.

The fake was achieved by using the inspect element aspect of Google Chrome, which essentially allows users to change text information on their screen and take fake screenshots, as several people on Twitter pointed out.

“His rts are in same order and from same people as in the vid but all of them have been changed to incorporate the words to the song,” Twitter user @uualker wrote.

And though Trump potentially tweeting out lyrics to a weird ’80s song definitely lands on the “something silly” end of the spectrum, it was still vaguely amusing to watch people fall for the joke. Or, rather, it would have been if not for the knowledge that they’ll fall for pretty much anything they want to believe.

“Absolutely amazing genius we have in POTUS,” Twitter user @2hellwevil wrote.

And, of course, some refused to believe it was fake even when it was explained to them.

“It’s from August,” one user tried to claim.

Of course, with so many of Trump’s tweets sounding fake until you go and look at the insanity with your own two eyes, it’s always hard to guess what’s going to be real and what’s not. But the President thinking far enough ahead to gradually tweet out the lyrics to “Break My Stride” was definitely, irrefutably fake news.

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Pediatrician gets death threats after pro-vaccine TikTok video

January 20, 2020, 7:37 pm
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An Ohio pediatrician’s attempt at making an informative video has landed her in hot water online.

The video, which was shared first on TikTok and then on Twitter, features pediatrician Nicole Baldwin dancing and gesturing to the song “Cupid Shuffle,” while text on screen reads, “Vaccines prevent: measles, polio, pertussis, Hepatitis, Influenza, HPV, Meningitis, Mumps… Vaccines DON’T: cause Autism.”

Forbes reports that the video’s ending statement about vaccines not causing Autism is the same statement that the Centers for Disease Control makes on its website concerning vaccination safety. Opponents of mandatory vaccination, commonly referred to as “anti-vaxxers,” have flooded the tweet with replies suggesting Baldwin is a corrupt doctor and that she shouldn’t be “imposing her views” on her patients.

“Vaccines destroy every ones life, one day you will answer to a higher power for being willfully ignorant and advocating on the wrong side of history,” Twitter user @873G5 wrote.

According to the same report from Forbes, false claims regarding Baldwin’s treatment of patients, such as one accusing her of prescribing Risperdal (an antipsychotic) to Autistic children, have been created to sow doubt in her credibility as a health care professional.

Baldwin hasn’t responded to many of the replies to her tweet, but she has pointed out the obvious to a few users who insist that she educate herself.

“4 years of college,” Baldwin wrote. “4 years of medical school. 3 years of pediatric residency. 13 years of clinical practice.”

In addition to claims intended to bring Baldwin’s credibility into question, the doctor has been the target of death threats, Forbes reports. In a post on Facebook, Baldwin writes that she has received fraudulent reviews on sites such as Google and Yelp, which are harassing her staff and “threatening her practice.”

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Someone found Harry Styles’ doppelganger—and TikTok is obsessed

January 21, 2020, 6:08 am
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Harry Styles has a twin, and he works at Starbucks.

The employee was discovered by a car full of teens, who shared the experience via TikTok. There, the video has racked up more than 262,000 likes and nearly 2,000 comments from stunned fans. The video prompted the internet to briefly come together, joined in its search for the Styles lookalike.

The short video shows the lookalike, whose name is Sean according to his name tag, simply performing his job. The teens in the car, obviously blown away by his resemblance to Styles, can hardly contain themselves in the video. “Are you Harry Styles,” one of them asks. Just after, the driver informs Sean that he resembles the 25-year-old musician, to which Sean simply replies “thanks.”

User @fridasakaj posted the video to TikTok, and in no time it was picked up by users all over the web. After Twitter user @90lwts shared it—earning the post nearly 11,000 likes and 1,500 retweets—the hunt for Sean, Harry’s long-lost twin, began in earnest. People from all over flocked to the post, searching for the Starbucks in the video.

One of the teens in the video, Colin Cardwell, even responded to @90lwts Twitter post and was quickly pounced on by thirsty users questioning after the Starbucks location. He did not share the location.

A wave of people flooded the post, hunting for Sean and his Starbucks. When many of them realized they may never meet Harry’s lookalike in person, they instead began hunting for his online profiles.

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The Twitter user who shared the video did, ultimately, manage to track down Sean’s online presence. They did not share it with the other eager Styles fans. “FOUND MANS @ FINALLY LMAO,” they wrote.

Despite the overwhelming consensus that Sean is cute as all get-out, not everyone thinks he looks like Styles. Several other comparisons were drawn, but the majority of people agreed that if he doesn’t look like Styles, he definitely looks like Dylan O’Brien from the Maze Runner films.

One user even saw Evan Peters from American Horror Story in Sean’s beautiful face.

Many people are still hunting for Sean’s online profiles, but at least a few have managed to track him down. Whether or not he’s ready for it, chances are good that this Starbucks employee’s follower count is about to skyrocket.

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Woman spots mole in man’s TikTok video, saves him from cancer

January 21, 2020, 12:17 pm
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TikTok content creator Alex Griswold says a fellow user on the platform may have saved his life. After sharing a video about his marriage, Griswold learned his mole could potentially lead to cancer. 

Griswold posted the clip in December, according to ABC News. He has over 497 followers on the platform. 

The video, titled “Here’s what it’s like being married,” shares the raw truths of married life, like “complimenting each other’s farts” and having a “sleepover” with your best friend every day. During one example, “backscratching always turns into pimple popping sessions,” the camera shows Griswold’s partner squeezing two moles on his back. 

At first glance, it looks like an ordinary mole. But two of his followers expressed concern.

Lizzie Wells, a melanoma survivor from California, immediately spotted something that she herself had beat, according to WSB-TV.

“I immediately paused the video and I was like, ‘I need to get a hold of this person.’ And so I commented on the video,” Wells, who is studying to be a doctor, told ABC News. 

Griswold said he took her advice seriously when she DMed him on Instagram, and he realized she’s “actually a skin student.” 

He then decided it was time to get the mole checked by a dermatologist. And sure enough, the doctors said after receiving test results, the “moderately atypical” mole was likely headed towards cancer. He got the mole removed.

“Now with the help of social media, we were actually able to save a life and so I was really, really happy,” Wells told WSB-TV.  

If it wasn’t for the stranger’s intervention, Griswold told WSB-TV, he otherwise could “have gone years without going to the dermatologist.”

He rehashed the saga in another TikTok video, and he told the Daily Dot he’s thrilled to spread some good online.

“I think it’s awesome!” he said. “I want people to feel good about the world when they’re watching my videos and I think this experience has been a really cool example that social media can be really positive and life-changing.”

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Lizzo reps Beyoncé’s Ivy Park collection in adult-themed TikTok

January 22, 2020, 5:58 am
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Everyone is obsessed with Beyoncé’s new activewear brand.

It’s only been five days since it launched, but the internet hasn’t stopped clamoring for Bey’s Ivy Park collection. Lizzo even donned a few pieces from the line in a recent TikTok. The NSFW video shows Lizzo, looking fantastic in her new athletic wear, miming oral sex on an unidentified pair of shorts. The 31-year-old singer mouths along to an audio clip, while on her knees. Fans of the “Truth Hurts” singer are split on the video, which has been making the rounds online.

The only complaints Beyoncé’s new maroon-and-orange Adidas collection has garnered regard sizing. Some hopeful owners were disappointed to discover that plus-size options in the new line were difficult to come by. Considering Bey’s typical message of inclusivity and representation, many fans felt the limited sizing options were off-brand. The sold-out line, which is available in sizes XS-XL, has received criticism from some hopeful fans for its exclusion of larger sizes. That made it all the more exciting when Lizzo appeared in her polarizing TikTok in Ivy Park maroon.

 

As the TikTok makes the rounds on social media, fans find themselves entirely split. Some are celebrating Lizzo’s typical offbeat humor, while others find the video disagreeable. Everyone else is just thrilled to see her repping Ivy Park. “Lizzo hunny u have a #1 album and a song you don’t have to do this on tiktok pls GET UP,” one fan wrote.

Not everyone found the TikTok offensive, of course.

“So Lizzo cant make jokes on tiktok like everyone else,” one user wrote. “Y’all act like she took the zick out & slapped herself in the face with it. Y’all so corny sometimes.”

No matter how you feel about the TikTok, Lizzo looks good as hell in that Ivy Park.

Does this mean we are going to see new sizes for the Ivy Park collection soon?

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Makeup artist transforms into Timothée Chalamet on TikTok

January 22, 2020, 11:54 am
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Timothée Chalamet’s cheekbones have ascended alongside contouring tutorials, but they collide on makeup artist Charlotte Roberts’ TikTok.

The TikTok-famous 16-year-old posted a video in which she scrolls through photos of Chalamet, then surprises us by transforming into him. In another video, Roberts breaks down the process of becoming Timothée via some expert contouring and shading.

On Twitter, Roberts commented that her TikTok feed has been heavy on Chalamet content, which apparently inspired this look. And people reacted.

However, Roberts has plenty more transformative looks on her TikTok.

Chalamet has not commented on the TikTok; he was last spotted shopping at Bed, Bath & Beyond with Dune co-star Zendaya, as one does.

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What is the TikTok ‘flex challenge’?

January 22, 2020, 6:03 pm
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It seems there’s a new TikTok challenge flooding our feeds every week, each one sillier than the last. The latest challenge to take over the app involves people lying down and attempting to stand up without using their hands, which usually results in people flopping around like fish.

The challenge originated when TikTok user @ashbashuno shared a video of herself and her boyfriend attempting what she called the “fish challenge.” The video showed the couple lying face down on the ground, holding their hands behind their backs, and attempting to stand up without rolling onto their sides or backs.

The video has been liked more than 470,000 times, and the sound has been used to create more than 83,000 TikToks.

The challenge was quickly taken over by TikTok users who are extremely flexible, like cheerleaders, dancers, and gymnasts.

According to Know Your Meme, TikTok user @jax_kranitz was the first to turn the sound byte into the flex challenge. She posted a TikTok of the challenge and was able to sit up by going from a plank position into a split. She captioned the video, “someone please duet this and see if you can get it faster” and used the hashtag #newflexchallenge.

It took Kranitz approximately three seconds to stand up, so it may be difficult to beat her time. But that didn’t stop people from trying. Kranitz’s video has nearly 700,000  likes, and #newflexchallenge has 8.6 million views.

But not everyone was successful. Many attempted and failed, and the results are hilarious.

Some took the challenge to the next level and found their own ways to stand up from a split.

As the challenge gains popularity, TikTok users may even see athletes find more creative ways to stand up from the “fish challenge.”

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TikTok signs licensing agreement with Merlin

January 23, 2020, 10:19 am
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TikTok has become a springboard for under-the-radar artists, but that means labels have been trying to figure out how to get a cut too.

One major development is a new global licensing agreement between Chinese-owned TikTok and Merlin, the U.K.-based indie music licensing hub. In the announcement, Merlin CEO Jeremy Sirota said: “Merlin members are increasingly using TikTok for their marketing campaigns, and today’s partnership ensures that they and their artists can also build new and incremental revenue streams.”

TikTok reportedly secured other major label deals that haven’t gone public yet, according to TechCrunch, but those revenue streams will likely be included in TikTok’s new music subscription service, Resso. The app has already been tested out in Indonesia and India, and a representative told Bloomberg last month that it’s in the “beta testing phase.”

There’s still no word on whether TikTok has reached deals with the big three—Warner Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Sony Music—in its quest to compete with Spotify or Apple. Lil Nas X, one of TikTok’s 2019 success stories, signed with Columbia and made chart history. In the last few weeks, TikTok has featured interviews with Grimes, Fitz and the Tantrums, and Ashnikko, whose song “Stupid” went viral last year, on its YouTube page.

Merlin artists Major Lazer and Cosmo Sheldrake have already had songs used on TikTok, and Merlin represents labels like Domino, Sub Pop, and Beggars Group.

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Muslim girls are making fun of Islamophobia in viral TikTok videos

January 23, 2020, 6:34 pm
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Muslim teens are using humor and TikTok to combat Islamophobia–and their videos are ascending them to TikTok stardom.

The videos highlight the struggles faced by Muslim women, especially those who choose to wear hijabs. In one video, TikTok user @Aaliyahthe1st portrays both herself and a fellow bus passenger. The fellow bus passenger looks extremely concerned and afraid as she adjusts her hijab.

A duet shows Aaliyahthe1s presenting a white family with a Somali passport. Text appears that reads, “And I’m not actually from Islam” as the family excitedly hollers and screams.

Another TikTok user, @ebtisannn, shared her own take on the duet. Instead of a passport, ebtisannn holds up a sign that reads, “Allahu-akbar means God is great” as the same white family erupts in excitement.

But many of the videos are more subtle in their efforts to combat Islamophobia.

For example, many of Aaliyahthe1st’s videos are about makeup and beauty. Meanwhile, TikTok user @rere.lahx shares videos that show off her love for taekwondo and playful dance moves. Through these videos, viewers are able to peer into a typical day in the of a young Muslim woman.

Rere.lahx, who is 16 years old, told i-D that she started uploading to the app to try to stamp out the negative perception some people have of Muslims.

“I wanted to show that we’re positive people, we’re just like them, and we’re all about fun and jokes,” Rere.lahx told the magazine.

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Young woman using TikTok to document the end of her life says she’s dying next week

January 24, 2020, 6:43 am
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Jamie Styblo is documenting the last days of her life on TikTok.

The young West Virginia woman says she’s dying of something called calcifilaxisis, a rare disease that causes a build-up of calcium in the body. The 22-year-old recently decided to begin documenting the end of her life via TikTok, where she’s been sharing updates on her condition. Styblo is approaching her last days with humor, charm, and courage, and people online can’t get enough.

Styblo has been uploading videos to TikTok for awhile now, but she only recently began sharing details on her condition. After uploading a TikTok in which she noted that she was “literally dying over here,” her followers started asking questions. As more and more flooded in, Styblo decided to address them through a series of videos.

Styblo brought users along as she planned her own funeral and prepared to shift into hospice care. She noted, in a string of videos, that she has been in a wheelchair since she was 12. Then, at 16 she began dialysis to combat her kidney failure. She said complications from her dialysis lead her to the decision to enter hospice. Throughout the series of videos, which Styblo has labeled her #deathseries, she and her family approached her decision to enter hospice with humor.

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In the background of one of the videos, Styblo’s close friend can be heard explaining the situation. “You were saying that you’ve been dealing with this for a really long time,” he said. “And that it’s at the point where we all just have to accept it and we’ve been laughing about it because it’s better than crying and sobbing and screaming and being upset.”

In another video, Styblo pointed viewers to her memorial fund through the funeral home. As of press time, $3,210 had been raised of the $7,500 goal. According to the page, Styblo contracted transverse myelitis—an inflammation of the spinal cord—when she was 12, which paralyzed her from the waist down. Eventually, Styblo’s condition lead to kidney failure, which led to further complications.

Following a late-night video in which Styblo said that her fingers, tongue, and the roof of her mouth were going numb, her friend Kurtis took over recording the TikToks.

Since then, he’s been giving updates on Styblo’s condition. According to Kurtis, Styblo—after several days of waiting—was finally transported into hospice. He noted that he would be giving updates whenever possible, and thanked followers for their support and donations. Upon speaking to hospice nurses, Kurtis noted that “they think she’ll last over the weekend, but next week it’ll be really rough.”

“We have her for a few more days, thankfully,” he said. In a follow-up video, Kurtis noted that he will be with Styblo up until the end, regardless of how long she hangs on. “She’s happy, she’s doing OK. She just wants everyone to know that she’s so thankful for everything.”

Kurtis and Styblo’s sister Stacy have gone live several times, giving viewers updates and answering questions. According to one of the page’s most recent videos, however, they were banned from going live for six days. If people want to watch them go live again, they will do so through Kurtis and Stacy‘s TikTok accounts.

Kurtis created an Instagram account for the purposes of live-streaming, where he promised viewers he would give updates. For now, he hasn’t given any more details on Styblo’s condition. As of the last time we saw her, she was cozied up in her hospice bed and seemed to be in good spirits. Kurtis promised to keep people updated as things change but noted that he will likely be unable to keep posting after she passes away. For now, at least, he is allowing people to join him and Styblo’s family in their last days with her.

The comment sections for each video are flooded with well wishes, prayers, and messages of love and strength. We’ve reached out to the family.

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TikTok teen famous for greasy hair ends her 8-year reign

January 24, 2020, 12:48 pm
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The reign of TikTok‘s “greasy hair girl” has ended.

Paige Gozon, a 16-year-old from North Carolina, ran with the nickname after a December 2019 “greasy hair check” that now has more than 7 million views. Gozon runs a brush through her long locks, slick with oil, and in the caption claims it is day 2,892 of not washing her hair.

In an interview with Allure, she says her shampoo-free reign—from January 2012 to January 2020—”originally began as a defiance against my parents.” But as weeks turned into months, Gozon found an identity in it: “After a year, I simply declared it was my lifestyle. I really did embrace it.”

Gozon admits she did regularly rinse her hair and use products to combat the oil, but the comments on her posts show that not everyone embraces the lifestyle. She tells Allure, “It allowed me to talk to close-minded people about something I’m very passionate about,” and Gozon used TikTok to address people’s questions and misconceptions.

On Jan. 14, she washed her hair for the first time in eight years. Gozon said it was because she was heading off to a semester at a new school and “since I’m moving on with my life I better move on with my hair too.”

Over the years, other women have advocated the benefits of forgoing shampoo, ranging from a year to 20 years. But Gozon appears to be doing just fine as a renewed hair-washer.

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This TikTok account for Chancellor Palpatine is hilarious

January 24, 2020, 6:43 pm
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One of the most feared Sith Lords in Star Wars is taking over TikTok.

Wearing an altered storm trooper’s uniform, the Star Wars fan running @ChancellorPalpatine has taken on popular trends and put a Star Wars-spin on them. The account has garnered about 17,000 followers and 125,000 likes on all of its videos.

This first video, captioned “For The Republic,” shows @ChancellorPalpatine reacting to someone being a separatist, with comments referencing the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars and music from Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith.

“She really do be like Count Dooku,” one comment reads.

Other videos are made to classic Star Wars songs, such as Darth Vader’s “The Imperial March,” and go heavy on some problematic terms like “simping,” which means to place a woman on a pedestal.

Lego Star Wars is also given some time to shine on the account. In a serial duet of lightsaber TikToks, Lego General Grievous gets a feature of himself wielding four lightsabers. However, not everyone is a fan of this one.

“Convert to Lego Batman,” one commenter wrote.

The most recent video from the Chancellor’s account shows himself up against Marvel supervillain Thanos as Darth Maul and Obi-Wan Kenobi come to his aid–followed by an army of Star Wars characters. The comment section makes references to both the franchise and the conflict with Iran.

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