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TikTok’s "Great Lock-In" Trend Is 2025’s Answer to the Winter Arc. But Do We Need Another Glow-Up Challenge?

Is the answer really to lock in, or would we be better logging off?

Marie Claire · Oct 8, 2025

Business Messaging Adoption Surged 53% in 2025

The adoption of business messaging channels has increased by 53% in just one year, driven by AI agents and LLM-powered automation, according to a new

Geekflare · Oct 8, 2025

NSW South Coast Locals Rage After TikTok On ‘Worlds Most Beautiful Street’ Goes Viral

“All good until people are standing smack bang in the middle of the road, completely ignoring the traffic and the fact that cars are parked from top to bottom on both sides."

Pedestrian.tv · Oct 8, 2025

‘It made my day more meaningful’: the Japanese gen Zers attempting a two-hour limit on smartphone use

Authorities in Japan are taking action against excessive phone time – but what is it like to restrict scrolling to 120 minutes a day?

The Guardian - AU · Oct 8, 2025

Plastic surgery as a sign of family unity: Colombia, Verónica Aspice, her parents, aunts and uncles, and $68,000

Family vacation? Yes. But with a scalpel included? Yes. Influencer Verónica Apice went viral on TikTok after posting a video documenting how she and four members of her family underwent plastic surgery during a trip to Colombia. The total cost: more than $68,000. But for this half-Colombian, half-Italian family, the…

Latin Times · Oct 7, 2025

10 Scammer Tricks That Start With Social Media DMs

Your social media direct messages (DMs) feel like a private space, a place for casual chats with friends and followers. Unfortunately, scammers see your inbox as a direct, unregulated pipeline to you. They have become experts at crafting messages that bypass your natural skepticism by leveraging the trust you have…

Budget and the Bees · Oct 7, 2025

The remarkable rise of eBird – the world’s biggest citizen science project

The lights in the auditorium darken. The cacophony of voices subsides. The enormous screen comes to life, displaying a satellite image of Australia and the scattering of islands directly to the north. The contrast between the dry, orangey red of most of Australia and the deep green of Papua New…

The Conversation · Oct 7, 2025

‘If I am in trouble, I hope a woman is around’: Server says customer left with no tip. Then guest’s brother comes back inside, asks to look at the check

When two brothers walked out of a restaurant, a server thought the meal was over—until one of them came back to check the receipt. What happened next turned an ordinary shift into a viral TikTok about kindness, confrontation, and why, as one commenter put it, “I think if I learned…

The Mary Sue · Oct 7, 2025

Instacart Teams Up With TikTok On Retail Media Data

Maplebear Inc. (NASDAQ:CART), parent company of Instacart, announced a new collaboration with TikTok that will benefit consumer packaged goods advertisers.

Benzinga · Oct 7, 2025

Nigel Farage felt ‘genuinely worried’ by alleged TikTok death threat, court hears

Fayaz Khan, 26, is on trial at Southwark crown court accused of threatening to shoot Reform UK leader

The Guardian - UK · Oct 7, 2025