Tag: tiktok

• ‘Gen Z Language? Y’all Mean AAVE’: The Appropriation of African American Vernacular English as ‘TikTok Language’

  March 11, 2026

  Sociolinguistic research has long documented the appropriation of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) across media including film, music and advertising. In this article, we add to this body o… https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/josl.70024 more ›

• Polymarket Partners With Kaito to Launch Attention Markets

  February 10, 2026

  Polymarket and Kaito AI are launching prediction markets based on social media mindshare and sentiment data across X, TikTok, and YouTube. https://www.bankless.com/read/news/polymarket-partners-with-kaito-to-launch-attention-markets more ›

• You are not immune to shopaganda | The Verge

  December 13, 2025

  Behind every influencer is an army of the influenced, many adrift in debt and mass-produced clutter. These are the stories of credit card debt and piles of mass-produced clutter. https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/836456/influencers-tiktok-debt-shopaganda more ›

• Racist AI-generated videos are the newest slop garnering millions of views on TikTok

  July 3, 2025

  Content warning: This article contains racist and antisemitic imagery, videos, and language.  These videos — seemingly created with Google’s Veo 3, a publicly accessible text-to-video generator — traffic in racist… more ›

• TikTok’s billion-dollar secret that wasn’t

  January 22, 2025

  Last week at Vox Media’s Code conference, Evan Spiegel, Snap’s CEO, touched upon the various pain points that currently afflict the developer behind Snapchat, resulting last month in the company… more ›

• These Influencers Helped Get Trump Elected. Now They’re Ready to Party

  January 21, 2025

  TikTok sponsored an inauguration-eve bash for content creators, proving that the stigma around being MAGA on social media is gone. https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/tiktok-donald-trump-inauguration-party-maga-1235241317/ more ›

• What’s Next Shopping Trend Report 2024

  September 3, 2024

  Read What’s Next Shopping Trend Report 2024 by tiktokforbusinesseu on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. Start here! https://issuu.com/tiktokforbusinesseu/docs/what_s_next_shopping_trend_report_-_eui more ›

• A Phantom’s Tale: The Coyote Influencer on TikTok

  May 12, 2024

  An alleged coyote holding a walkie talkie crouches by some mangroves. In another video, he speaks to the camera about the fact that new floating barriers deployed in the Rio… more ›

• Social Media, Authoritarianism, and the World As It Is

  March 30, 2024

  Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, a bill that would force TikTok’s parent company to sell the… more ›

• Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them

  March 6, 2024

  At 404 Media we have tried very hard to make our content the old-fashioned way, but, after watching an Instagram Reel that suggested we could get wildly rich with no… more ›