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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-31 at 21:25

In today’s newsletter: Pick me foods, a Hollywood power brawl, the return of OG Facebook, Zyn supremacy, and the Senator secretly running the Democrat's social media strategy https://www.usermag.co/p/why-a-maga-influencer-turned-on-trump-clarkson-lawson-kamala-harris-tiktok

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-27 at 22:01

DashCon 2.0, Gen Z mall mania, Wokeipedia, Spotify's new podcaster plaques, Tinder's TikTok hail mary, Waymo violence, and how WhatsApp ate the world... all in today's newsletter!! https://www.usermag.co/p/dashcon-20-gen-z-mall-mania

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-25 at 16:35

TikToks promoting "cute winter boots" leverage the TikTok algorithm's preference for product-focused content to amplify reach.

"What the algorithm likes is products. It’s a way to talk about resisting the federal government in a way that will actually reach people," one creator said. https://www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained-algospeak

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-25 at 15:33

As the U.S. government seeks to enact stricter controls over online speech, TikTok users are adopting more coded 'algospeak' to criticize and resist the government https://www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained-algospeak

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-25 at 15:27

I wrote about how DeepSeek’s AI breakthrough is sending Silicon Valley techies into a panic.

"It’s interesting how when something Chinese outperforms something American (TikTok, deepseek, etc) it's a ‘psyop’ or ‘economic warfare’ or and not just ‘another country made something ppl like.’” https://www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained-algospeak

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-25 at 14:53

TikTok’s “cute winter boots” political revolution, the Chinese cowboy of RedNote, DeepSeek panic, a skinny jeans comeback, 2010s revival core, whopperology, the end of the weekend, and John McAfee rises from the dead https://www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained-algospeak

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-24 at 16:45

Gen Z’s Jerry Springer show, IRL ChatGPT sexbots, Humanity’s Last Exam, YouTube at 4x, yak wool vs glass skin, and the rise of wedding QR codes.

Read all about it in today’s newsletter!! 👇👇👇 https://www.usermag.co/p/gen-zs-jerry-springer-show

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-24 at 00:31

“The death of ‘websites’ and outlets that value true creativity and diversity in coverage — largely at the whims of ghoulish executives and private equity vulturism — has created in me a stinging grief that I cannot seem to shake.” https://lindseyadler.substack.com/p/ten-years-in-a-crumbling-industry

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-23 at 23:08

Seeking help! Does anyone know where I can buy Iota-Carrageenan nasal spray (that doesn’t have saline in it) to be delivered in the U.S.? Looking for same ingredients as Betadine, which has been discontinued.

Do not send any other non Iota-Carrageenan nasal spray, that is not what I need. Iota-Carrageenan only 🙏

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-23 at 16:07

How YouTubers pushed young male voters to Trump (with receipts), a Gamergate 2.0 speaks out, pocket cheese, NYT on The Rizzler, MrBeast is hiring, and a Twitter exec reveals why Vine really failed. All in today’s newsletter 👇👇👇 https://www.usermag.co/p/how-youtubers-pushed-young-male-voters

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:42

TikTok is also my biggest platform, if you want to support my work please buy a yearly subscription to UserMag.co, if it's not something you can afford please subscribe for free and/or share links!! Every little bit helps when you're up against an entire massive right wing media structure.

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:38

With Meta and X outright embracing right wing ideology, and YouTube becoming increasingly saturated, progressive creators who found a haven on TikTok, now face the near impossible task of rebuilding their communities on platforms that are hostile to their content. Most will fail. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:37

TikTok also has more than double the concentration of news content creators who identify as LGBTQ+ or advocate for LGBTQ+ rights vs other platforms, and 73% of teens who identify as Democrats or lean left use TikTok, compared to 52% of teens who identify as Republican. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:36

While the majority of news content creators across the social media landscape are conservative men, a recent study found that TikTok is the only platform where left-leaning news influencers outnumber right-leaning ones. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:34

The TikTok ban will deplatform thousands of progressive content creators and skew online discourse to the right. It will consolidate media influence within right-leaning platforms like Meta and X. Over time, I believe this reconfiguration will permanently alter the political landscape of the creator economy https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-18 at 14:32

The TikTok ban represents the most significant and widespread deplatforming of creators in American internet history. It far surpasses Vine's closure in 2017 in both scale and impact, and stands to permanently reshape the ideological tilt of the online creator landscape. https://www.usermag.co/p/the-great-creator-reset

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-16 at 22:07

Bhattacharya, who has long falsely portrayed himself as a victim of censorship, now appears poised to use his new position to censor and punish those he disagrees with, all while cynically using the language of “free speech” to justify punishing those whose speech he disagrees with. Bari Weiss at the Free Press has also been pushing this lie for a while https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/10/for-bhattacharya-free-speech-means-freedom-to-defund-dissenters/

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-14 at 21:57

If you, the American public, would like to exercise your First Amendment rights on TikTok, tough luck, you have to use IG or YouTube.

If you’re the U.S. government, however, only TikTok will do. In fact, the cable stresses how crucial and essential the platform is. https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/biden-administration-quietly-carves

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-14 at 21:45

While the Biden administration is trying to ban TikTok over concerns about “foreign influence operations,” the White House is working behind the scenes to use TikTok for its own foreign influence activities, and allowing some government employees to still use the app https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/biden-administration-quietly-carves

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Written by Taylor Lorenz on 2025-01-13 at 14:12

I wrote about FreeOurFeeds, a new $30M plan to take back social media from billionaires https://www.usermag.co/p/freeourfeeds-a-30m-plan-to-take-back-social-media-from-billionaires

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