TikTok is filled with wonders. It’s SO weird. It can make you feel like the algorithm is telling you something you don’t even realize about yourself….or it serve you a whole bunch of cyst draining videos. In order to answer your questions about WTF is happening in your feed, I knew I needed a weird internet aficionado who also understands the way our tech platforms actually work. I needed Katie Notopoulos. Join us as we talk about the parallel dimension that is TikTok Live, the difference between Reels and TikTok content, those bizarre “bugs all over me” videos, nail tapping ASMR, the clean girl aesthetic, and SO MUCH MORE.
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Read all of Katie’s great and weird reporting over at Business Insider
Some Chainsaw Testing
CLEAN GIRL AESTHETIC
MORE CLEAN GIRL
SICK ROPE CUTTING
The vaguely Patrick Bateman ASMR clean living guy on Instagram
A classic in the hoof cleaning genre
My favorite sheep herding dog guy
One of the fake bug videos (I PROMISE IT’S FAKE)
Why is Paul Mescal so hot
Sydney Sweeney (and Gen-Z Stardom)
Learning to craft / make things / hobby-around-the-house
For our continuing series on romance novels: QUEER ROMANCE
Artificial Intelligence (we’re gonna see if we can figure out an actually interesting theme here, so send us your weirdest or most mind-boggling questions)
Contemporary ideas of self-care
Buy Nothing groups and/or the current state of the secondhand market
Anything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segment
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