NFTs have been the source of eye-popping headlines all year: A $1 million sale here, a $10 million sale there, and the sudden impression that there’s profit and prestige everywhere. But people who worked on NFTs long before they were the subject of mainstream attention are quick to point out …
Read More »TikTok Is Full of Videos of People Promoting Ivermectin, the Horse Deworming Medication Falsely Touted as a Covid Cure
“How y’all doing? I don’t know how y’all been vaccinating, but I’m gonna show y’all how I have been,” says the man in the video. He pulls out a small needle and a syringe, followed by a box with a horse on it. He puts one cc of the medication …
Read More »The Future of Music Journalism… Is on TikTok
Near the end of September, Sam Levine, who manages the rising act Tom the Mail Man, noticed an unexpected bump in the singer-rapper’s streaming numbers. After some internet sleuthing, Levine traced the rise back to the source: a post by MostleyMusic, a TikTok account that functions like an early 2010’s …
Read More »TikTok Has a New Deal With Sony Music to Promote More Sony Artists
TikTok has signed a new licensing deal with Sony Music Entertainment, the company announced on Monday, granting the short-form video app a longer term deal for access to the extensive catalog of one of the biggest companies in the recorded music industry. TikTok declined to give specifics on the new …
Read More »RS Charts: Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP' Continues Reign at Number One
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s “WAP” spent a fifth week at Number One on the Rolling Stone Top 100 Songs chart, earning 29.6 million streams. The top of the latest chart remain unchanged relative to last week, with “WAP” followed by Drake and Lil Durk‘s “Laugh Now Cry Later,” …
Read More »Creepy TikToks Blur the Line Between Frightening Fantasy and Unsettling Reality
Most of the posts on Bonskinny’s TikTok account show a young white woman in shorts and a tank top dancing to various popular songs like Die Antwoord’s “Pitbull Terrier” or Insane Clown Posse’s “Great Milenko.” In this respect, it’s like pretty much any other TikTok, except Bonskinny is wearing a …
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