your inauguration week distraction tiktok emergency pack
I mean let’s be honest, it’s the day after a long weekend and about 25 hours before the season (series?) finale for American Democracy airs……..you don’t need some hot media take right now. You need some wildly distracting TikToks. And I’ve got 10 very good ones for you:
A romantic drama that’s far more poignant than anything you’ll find on TV right now
The whole genre of TikTok mashups, which includes this very millennial gem, is setting the bar ASTRONOMICALLY HIGH for post-COVID clubbing let me just say
On that note, can we make microwave TikTok as big as shanty TikTok??
Pigeons running errands is a good bit; more of this please
I spent H2 of 2020 quarantine watching all the Marvel movies in order to appreciate Endgame fully and I gotta say……..this school assembly version was far more satisfying
Sometimes during quar I wonder if all the theater kid types are doing okay, but then I remember that all the ‘Tok’s a stage
of course there’s already a pop-punk version of “Drivers License”
is this too soon. it’s too soon isn’t it
Still. The kids are okay. Everything will be okay.
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