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The “Get Ready With Me” (GRWM) TikTok trend, spread on all platforms of media, showing the inside of everyone’s regular lives. These videos make new people and products popular, spreading influence to people in all communities, especially beauty viewers. The trends allow watchers to enjoy the behind-the-scenes in peoples lives and find inspiration for new adventures and creative looks.

Get Ready to talk about GRWM

Callie Kinsinger, Features Editor
January 17, 2023
Companies continue to update their platforms with teens and kids as their target audience. Social media holds numerous dangers, including kids encountering predators and cyberbullying. Multiple interest groups, such as the Daily Citizen, believe the government should make social media platforms and verify kids age through third-party security platforms, like the Social Security Administration.

The Government should raise social media’s age limit

Divine Idiku, Reporter
November 1, 2022
Pop star Taylor Swift stuns her listeners with each surprise she gives away, keeping fans on their toes. She continues to release music that breaks records and Swifties’ hearts, creating a stronger community with each release. Swift builds her music career with a plan and constantly drops hints about new music for the loyal fans who follow her

Taylor Swift: “Midnights”

Callie Kinsinger, Features Editor
October 26, 2022
Former kickboxer Andrew Tate took the Internet by storm in 2022, and for all the wrong reasons. As the demand for de-platforming Tate from social media grew due to his comments of misogyny, homophobia, and violence, his followers continued to increase in numbers. Before getting his social media accounts deleted, Tate accumulated 4.6 million followers on Instagram and his videos on TikTok garnered millions of views.

Andrew Tate and his rise from toxic masculinity

Ivan Mendoza, Reporter
September 2, 2022
TikToks point of view (POV) trend of three years made its way to the most popular music streaming app, Spotify. Instead of tiktokers using POV in videos to intrigue watchers, music listeners use it to personalize their Spotify playlist titles and also see how other people relate to their POV when making the playlist public. Photo creds: Tori Altamirano

POV trends: Tiktok to Spotify

Tori Altamirano, Reporter
August 23, 2022
Random debates similar to the wheels vs. doors question commonly come up on social media. For example, the blue and teal or pink and white shoe, the white and gold or blue and black dress and “laurel” or “yanny”audio. Online users enjoy arguing their opinion about useless topics for fun. “Many other debates have come up about whether one thing or another is true, like “the dress” or the Yanny/Laurel debate. One main theme that comes up in all of them is that everyone wants their opinion and their side to be right,” freshman Nicolas Fusaro said.

The heated wheels vs. doors debate

Callie Kinsinger, Reporter
March 27, 2022
Known for his hand in songwriting, instrumentation, and production of his works, Charlie Puth possesses a diverse skill set in music that few other artists can contest. Beginning his path to stardom through his YouTube channel, “Charlie’s Vlogs”, he initially posted acoustic covers of popular songs. Ellen DeGeneres scouted him through this channel and signed Puth with her music label. His popularity rocketed upward from there.

Charlie Puth teases upcoming album

Elijah Pacis, Sports Editor
March 11, 2022
Kanye West’s mental outbreaks on social media led fans to think someone hacked West’s account. West uploaded a series of pictures of himself to his 14 million followers on Instagram while holding a yellow-lined notebook paper reading; “My account is not hacked. 2 13 22.” In the next picture, he held the same notebook but wore a black balaclava.

 Ye’s intakes on Tiktok

Lauren Lee, Reporter
March 1, 2022
As Tik Tok gains more and more users due to attention and recognition, the users of the app soon find out about Tiktok “stars”. Giving attention to stars leads to the recognition of these stars, which led the Hype House to earn its own Netflix Series. Every time a scandal happens inside the house and it manages to become publicized, viewers find themselves wanting to know more about the scandal.

Netflix releases new series, “Hype House”

Valentina Gonzalez, Reporter
January 21, 2022
Cultural appropriation continues to surround our everyday lives, and the popularity of Western spirituality only worsened it. Historic practices such as yoga, meditation, and saging often become a white-washed, ingenuine version of their former selves. These honored traditions turn into for-profit business ventures and remove the history from the practices themselves.

Spirituality or cultural appropriation?

Lainey Devlin, Copy Editor
April 20, 2021
As this new trend takes over social media, users have begun to forget the original intention; allowing men to express themselves comfortably. Self expression comes from what a person identifies with on the inside, not from following trends. In order to truly support male femininity, society must normalize it rather than idolizing it.

Idolizing male femininity promotes toxicity

Hannah Cuthbertson, Reporter
March 18, 2021
“I go on Tiktok just to watch the tarot card videos because I am very interested in what my future will end up looking like,” said NC junior Kenneth Pagan-Portes. Tarot cards have appeared all over people’s for you pages on Tiktok. Mostly for telling people things like how their love life will turn out, and if/what a specific person, like somebody’s crush, thinks about them daily.

Tarot cards taking over TikTok

Marissa Amorose, Staff
March 16, 2021
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