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‘It’s the perfect setting’: TikTok goes wild for backstage Olympics videos

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 13:32

Lesser known sports stars are showing off Olympic Village life and captivating people with their ‘joyful relatability’

Olympic hauls were once the preserve of triumphant athletes showing off their medals, but now every Olympian is getting in on the act by posting videos of themselves unboxing their sponsored kit .

Haul videos – a social media staple in which someone usually shows off their recent purchases – have been popping up online with athletes who are preparing to take to track and field, pitches and courts taking to TikTok instead.

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Kamala Harris memes are all over the internet. Will tweets and TikToks turn into votes?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 11:00

Charli xcx declared the VP brat and the KHive is rejuvenated – can gen Z’s enthusiasm make a difference in November?

In a series of events over 24 hours that would have been unimaginable a week ago, Kamala Harris ascended to the top of the Democratic ticket, secured the backing of Joe Biden and key leaders, brought in a record-breaking $81m , and became the face of brat summer.

“kamala IS brat,” pop star Charli xcx declared on Sunday, a reference to her new album released last month that has launched countless memes declaring it the season of the brat. A brat, in the British singer’s own words, is “that girl who is a little messy and likes to party and maybe says some dumb things sometimes, who feels herself, but then also maybe has a breakdown, but kind of parties through it”.

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Sundresses and rugged self-sufficiency: ‘tradwives’ tout a conservative American past ... that didn’t exist

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 13:00

The TikTok-friendly aesthetic, which celebrates homesteading, milkmaids and ‘the feminine urge to take care of your husband’, hinges on a history today’s Republicans would fiercely oppose

“Hey guys, and welcome back to my channel! Today, I’m going to be giving some tips for the ladies on how to attract a masculine man – a provider man,” the perky blonde woman tells the camera. Beaming and dressed in a pink dress complete with matching sweater, her swoop of blonde hair pinned back with a pearly headband, the woman rattles off her tips.

“You want to look feminine, you want to be fit and take care of yourself and you want to be friendly,” the twentysomething woman continues. “I feel like the most feminine women I’ve come into encounter with are very peaceful. So have a sense of peace about you. Be content in your life without a man and pray for the right one to come your way.”

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“How many aura points did I lose?” The new coolness currency has hints of Aristotle

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 14:06

Young people are evaluating good and bad life decisions on a scale and seeking input from others. To philosophy experts, it sounds familiar

You can count calories, steps, streams of your favorite song – and now, you can assign a number to how cool you are. See: aura points, a way to calculate your rizz. (That’s what the kids call charisma, and if you didn’t know that, you just lost 100 aura points.)

Ask someone out and get a yes? That’s 100 aura points for you. Still on Snapchat past the age of 19? Gross and suspect … dock 1,000 aura points. Confidently answered a question in class, but got it wrong? You’re in the red now.

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Auramaxxing: will this make you more sexually attractive — or just a bit tired?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 17 July - 13:42

Do you feel uncharismatic and awkward in social situations? Aura upgrades are thankfully now available, according to a group of intrepid influencers

Name: Auramaxxing.

Age: The word “aura” comes from Latin and ancient Greek and originally meant a gentle breeze. These days it’s more commonly used about a subtle pervasive quality emanating from someone. That’s what we’re talking about here.

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TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 17 July - 13:20

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TikTok helped promote Germany’s far-right extremist political party to young voters ahead of last month’s EU elections , even when they were searching the app for other political parties or politicians, according to a new report shared exclusively with WIRED.

The report was written by researchers from the nonprofit organization AI Forensics and Interface, a European think tank specializing in information technology. Researchers found that in a quarter of cases, young users in Germany searching on the app for specific political parties and their politicians in the weeks leading up to the vote on June 5 were instead given suggestions for other parties. In the majority of these cases, they were given suggestions linked to Alternative for Germany (AfD), Germany’s leading far-right party.

It is already well documented that the AfD has successfully leveraged TikTok to spread extremism and disinformation to a younger audience, but the new research suggests that the far-right group, which was labeled “extremist” by a German court earlier this year , was aided by the TikTok algorithm itself.

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Donald Trump déteste tellement Facebook qu’il compte laisser TikTok tranquille

news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 17 July - 13:18

Pendant son mandat, Donald Trump avait tenté de forcer la vente de TikTok à une entreprise américaine, pour bloquer le réseau social chinois. En cas d’élection en novembre, il souhaite désormais laisser TikTok tranquille, pour empêcher Facebook et Instagram de monter en puissance.

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The ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl and the making of TikTok stars – podcast

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 11 July - 04:00

Hailey Welch, AKA the ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl, is everywhere after her viral street interview. Chanté Joseph talks to the journalists Alaina Demopoulos and Cat Zhang about Welch’s overnight celebrity, the proliferation of street interviews on the platform and what this means for ‘virality’ in 2024

Archive: YouTube (The Joe Rogan Experience, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Tim and Dee TV, Plan Bri Uncut, TheEllenShow, After Midnight, Paramount Pictures), Tik Tok (theharrisalterman, viralinterviews, fortune, salimzwrld, harry.daniels, calebwsimpson, boyroomshow, streetheartsnyc, doseofsociety), Girls Gone Wild: Live from Spring Break (2003)

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First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 8 July - 17:27

First-known TikTok mob attack led by middle schoolers tormenting teachers

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A bunch of eighth graders in a "wealthy Philadelphia suburb" recently targeted teachers with an extreme online harassment campaign that The New York Times reported was "the first known group TikTok attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the United States."

According to The Times, the Great Valley Middle School students created at least 22 fake accounts impersonating about 20 teachers in offensive ways. The fake accounts portrayed long-time, dedicated teachers sharing "pedophilia innuendo, racist memes," and homophobic posts, as well as posts fabricating "sexual hookups among teachers."

The Pennsylvania middle school's principal, Edward Souders, told parents in an email that the number of students creating the fake accounts was likely "small," but that hundreds of students piled on, leaving comments and following the fake accounts. Other students responsibly rushed to report the misconduct, though, Souders said.

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