Day: September 12, 2020

Dr. Phil Urges People to Stop Calling Him ‘Daddy’ on TikTok Dr. Phil McGraw is now on a bizarre, unexpected crusade: get TikTok‘s young users to stop calling him “daddy.” The daytime talk show host published a video pleading with his followers to stop calling him that. McGraw’s posts on […]

@eliza_morey via Twitter / @lizemopetey via TikTok In a week where social media has been particularly bleak, one of the few bright spots has been — ironically enough — an absolute gem of a TikTok about the dinosaurs going extinct. “Hey angel, did you give the dinosaurs more muscle like […]

UWL responds to student’s viral TikTok video showing quarantine meal September 12, 2020 3:54 PM Mal Meyer Posted: September 12, 2020 3:54 PM LA CROSSE, Wis (WKBT)– The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is responding to a TikTok video made by a student in the quarantine dorm who questioned why they […]

Axelle/Bauer-GriffinGetty Images Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas became parents to a baby girl named Willa in July, and like any new parents, they have been keeping things pretty low-key. But fans have gotten a few social-media glances of the couple, including in a TikTok that Jonas posted on Thursday. In […]

Remember Blackpool grime? Back in 2016, Noisey released a documentary about a sort of hilarious new grime scene in the seaside English town of Blackpool “mostly populated by adolescent MCs who constantly and viciously send for eachother’s mums in thick Lancashire accents.” One of the central figures of the original […]

TikTok star Dixie D’Amelio has issued a bemused response to a wild conspiracy theory circulating on TikTok that speculates that her sister Charli’s sudden rise to fame is a result of her father wanting the popularity vote in a future election. The D’Amelio sisters shot to fame on the app […]

It’s no secret that TikTok has the ability to make a song into a hit overnight. Artists like Abigail Barlow and Priscilla Block have been blowing up on the app, even without record labels backing them, resulting in thousands of streams easily overnight. But rapper ppcocaine’s rise to fame was […]

Stephen Ludwig struggles to walk across the street to his car most days, and it’s not because of the 9¼-inch lift attached to is left shoe. He just keeps getting recognized — and stopped — by fans when he steps outside. The 22-year-old Page High School graduate and UNC Chapel […]

In a string of dramatic videos by the alleged ex’s friend, TikTok personality Jaden Hossler has been accused of cheating on ex girlfriend Lelianna with Mads Lewis – his current squeeze and fellow TikTok star. With 8.1 million followers on TikTok and 4.1 million followers on Instagram, Jaden Hossler is […]

(Reuters) – Beijing opposes a forced sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations by its Chinese owner ByteDance, and would prefer to see the short video app shut down in the United States, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. ByteDance has been in talks to sell TikTok’s […]