TikTok ranked their most popular viral trends of 2024

TikTok ranked their most popular viral trends of 2024

And that’s your TikTok 2024 wrap. TikTok revealed its top trends of the year, including Jools Lebron’s catchphrase “very humble, very conscious”, a fascination with a baby hippo named Moo Deng and Logan Moffitt’s cucumber-centric recipes. Baby Animal Many people around the globe were amazed by the appearance of two popular baby animals: Moo Deng … Read more

Vinyl records have taken over – and are becoming more popular than streaming

Vinyl records have taken over - and are becoming more popular than streaming

Retro-obsessed Gen Zers have revived a relic of the last century: vinyl records. Vintage albums have boomed in popularity in recent years as younger generations flock to buy vinyl from fan-favorite artists like Taylor Swift, BeyoncĂ© and Billie Artist Hawk records of their latest hits. Former Spotify economist Will Page predicts that record companies will … Read more

Demure, sanwawashing, sourdough and more: Here are the top memes to leave behind in 2025

Demure, sanwawashing, sourdough and more: Here are the top memes to leave behind in 2025

NEW YORK – We’ve made our way to 2024. We’ve played passenger princesses. We’ve baked enough sourdough to cover the world with our bubbly starters. We’ve worked it out and boarded it. All this. There is a lot to leave behind as the new year approaches. Here’s a small tip of the iceberg of what … Read more

Oxford’s 2024 word of the year reflects the ‘perceived risks’ of social media

Oxford's 2024 word of the year reflects the 'perceived risks' of social media

There’s a word for the feeling you get after endlessly scrolling through social media – and Oxford chose it as its word of the year. Oxford University Press (OUP) has named “brain rot” as the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year. The term is defined as “the alleged deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual … Read more

Fans of ‘bad’ movies are returning to get green face paint at this popular theater chain

Fans of 'bad' movies are returning to get green face paint at this popular theater chain

This movie theater chain won’t be so “Popular” anymore. Overzealous “Leagues” fans who paint themselves to match Elphaba’s shade of green will likely be barred from entering the theater, as two unfortunate AMC ticket holders discovered. This week, Jamie Forst went to her local AMC theater in Burbank, California, dressed in pink as Glinda, played … Read more

I invest in Lego because it’s better than stocks, bonds and gold – and I made $500k in 2 years

I invest in Lego because it's better than stocks, bonds and gold - and I made $500k in 2 years

Shane O’Farrell had no intention of getting rich by buying and selling Lego – all the 35-year-old from New Jersey was looking for was a connection to his childhood in Ireland, where the modest Fort Legoredo was one of them. favorite toy. Twenty years later, when he saw the kit going for hundreds more than … Read more

This church has an AI Jesus for confessions: ‘He gave me so much advice’

This church has an AI Jesus for confessions: 'He gave me so much advice'

Is that mess-AI-iah? Just in case artificial intelligence hasn’t been getting enough work lately – now it’s replacing the Almighty. A church in Switzerland is now using an AI hologram of Jesus to take confessions from Catholic worshippers, as seen in a wildly viral video. “I was surprised, it was so easy and even though … Read more