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Loosely known as Bring Back 2016, it involves TikTokers urging their mostly gen Z audience to live 2026 like it's 2016 complete with mannequin challenges, a Major Lazer soundtrack and the promise of never-ending summer. And it's sure to get heads spinning quicker than the fidget spinners it's resurrecting. Admittedly, most of the content is just plain silly: 2016 challenges and dances (the bottle flip, the dab);

TikTok will become FIFA's first-ever Preferred Platform, which will lead to an enhanced level of collaboration and integration, allowing TikTok to offer more comprehensive FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage, including increased original content, while becoming the go-to place for fans and creators throughout the tournament. This first-of-its-kind Preferred Platform agreement builds on the groundbreaking tie-up between TikTok and FIFA for the

Farrell joined TikTok nearly six years ago, starting on the company's Latin America marketing team before shifting to its operations division and later taking over as global creator lead in late 2023. In December, she helped organize TikTok's first awards show for creators at the Hollywood Palladium theater in Los Angeles. Prior to TikTok, Farrell worked in marketing at Booking.com and Google.

After weeks of living in sweatpants and a claw clip, there often comes a moment when you finally feel like getting ready again. Instead of running errands in pajama bottoms or dashing to work with wet hair, it suddenly sounds fun to put on a nicer outfit and step outside feeling cute. For many, the easiest way to accomplish this goal is with the viral "2/3 rule" from TikTok.

There was something undeniably weird about 2016. Not weird in the charming, "remember Vine?" sense, but weird in the way history feels right before it tips over. It marked a slow descent into collective unease, beginning with the surreal recapture of El Chapo, winding through celebrity deaths and the mainstreaming of one particular cartoon frog, and finally cratering with the presidential election of reality TV star Donald Trump. At the time, many outlets openly wondered whether 2016 was the worst year ever.

Best investment you don't have access to is TikTok, Galloway began. Oh, yeah. Did you get yours? Have you gotten in there yet?' Swisher asked. Well, no, I'm a Democrat. So it's going to Dell, some Saudi person, I forget who it's going to, but it's not going to anyone who wants it or anyone who's a Democrat. But they're basically, Trump's forcing them to sell it for 14 billion, Galloway replied, adding:

Every late sleeper has heard it: The chorus of comments that bounce off the walls when they come downstairs after 9 a.m. " Look who decided to join us," your parents might say, as they sip their third coffee and rattle off everything they've already accomplished. "Welcome to the land of the living!" On TikTok, many people are talking about sleeping in late, how it gets a bad rap, and how it's sometimes even met with disdain.

The couple took to TikTok to post a video of themselves committing to one another moments before their wedding ceremony. Set to the music of Kim Petras' "Alone", the pair shared the moment that they deleted Grindr from their phones. They sealed the gesture with a high five. The end of the video showed them dressed in cream suits and embracing each other in a hug as white petals fell around them.

For the chronically online, 2025 was the year of "brain rot", AI slop, and " rage bait," a time of consuming Labubu matcha Dubai chocolate to the sound of "nothing beats a Jet2 holiday" and "six-seven," on repeat, as a form of torture. Here, ​​we take a look back at the biggest internet-culture moments that brought us all together even as the country is more divided than ever.

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In a December 8 TikTok video shared by @Grace.lvgp, the creator gives her followers an inside look at "the sick twisted reality of cleaning the windows in a Frank Lloyd Wright home." While Wright was known for his prairie-style buildings' elaborate window designs, many of which featured gorgeous stained glass and intricate geometric shapes, these so-called "light screens" might be more decorative than practical for homeowners.

It's no secret anymore: Moms are the magic-makers-in-chief when it comes to the holidays. And with so much on our minds, from dinner menus to gift lists and everything in between, we'll take any little easy shortcuts we can get, thanks. These TikTok holiday hacks are perfect for just that - and they actually work. No, these are not the weird "hacks" that make you roll your eyes at the internet these days.

The author of The Art of the Deal always likes to claim he's a big winner when it comes to any business arrangement he makes. And in some ways, Donald Trump appears to have won big by finalizing a deal that will see Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX take part-ownership of a new joint venture designed to oversee operations in the United States of TikTok, the wildly popular social video appl.

In 2019, TikTok announced a " formal relationship" with the National Parent Teacher Association, which describes itself as the largest child advocacy group in America. They published a TikTok Guide for Parents packed with instructions on " digital safety " and how to "decide the best experience for your family." What TikTok did not say, lawsuits filed against the company allege, was that internal documents had begun to reveal that the company knew its technology was harming kids-the short-form video app's target audience.

The deal, expected to close in late January, will give Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX a combined 45% stake in the US joint venture. ByteDance will maintain ownership of just under 20% of the US business, but retain oversight of the rest of the world and manage TikTok US's e-commerce, advertising, and marketing strategies. Why It Matters: This deal signifies a significant shift in the ownership structure of TikTok's US operations.

"I went into a meeting the other day and mentioned that I'd watched 'Wild at Heart' the night before," says Rae, who's 25. She's wearing tight jeans, heels and a baggy Harvard hoodie and twirls the sweatshirt's drawstrings in her fingers as she speaks. "They were so astounded. I was like, 'Is this not just one of the things you should know if you're in this business?'"

An internet privacy group is accusing TikTok of violating international law by tracking its users' Grindr data. European digital rights group NOYB filed a complaint against the social media platform, as well as Grindr and digital marketing company AppsFlyer, over claims they breached online privacy laws by tracking user's inter-app activities. The Austria-based organisation alleged to the country's Data Protection Authority on Wednesday (16 December) that TikTok was violating the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and risked exposing its customer's sensitive data.

The company has told US staffers across several large divisions that they will need to return to the office five days a week next year, two affected workers told Business Insider. The return-to-office push, which kicks off in September, will affect US employees across a wide set of roles, including staffers who work on advertising sales, marketing, and product, the employees said.

the entire backend used to manage its phone farm - so it provides an extraordinary glimpse at how the service is actually being used to manipulate social media at scale. Speaking to 404 on condition of anonymity, the hacker said they can "see the phones in use, which manager [computers controlling the phones] they had, which TikTok accounts they were assigned, proxies in use (and their passwords), and pending tasks. As well as the link to control devices for each manager."

The yellow font theory is tough to miss, and that's 100% the point. It shows up as large, neon yellow text on your screen, with either a video or a picture behind it. The text will say something poetic, and then there will often be a caption or hashtag that says #yellowfont, #yellowfonttheory, or #yellowfontbtw. Many of the most viral videos come from creator @yellowfont.halfspeed, who has dozens of aesthetically pleasing posts, some with millions of views.