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The couple took to TikTok to post a video of themselves committing to one another moments before their wedding ceremony. Set to the music of Kim Petras' "Alone", the pair shared the moment that they deleted Grindr from their phones. They sealed the gesture with a high five. The end of the video showed them dressed in cream suits and embracing each other in a hug as white petals fell around them.

For the chronically online, 2025 was the year of "brain rot", AI slop, and " rage bait," a time of consuming Labubu matcha Dubai chocolate to the sound of "nothing beats a Jet2 holiday" and "six-seven," on repeat, as a form of torture. Here, ​​we take a look back at the biggest internet-culture moments that brought us all together even as the country is more divided than ever.

Fuck, fuck, fuck I just hit somebody.

In a December 8 TikTok video shared by @Grace.lvgp, the creator gives her followers an inside look at "the sick twisted reality of cleaning the windows in a Frank Lloyd Wright home." While Wright was known for his prairie-style buildings' elaborate window designs, many of which featured gorgeous stained glass and intricate geometric shapes, these so-called "light screens" might be more decorative than practical for homeowners.

It's no secret anymore: Moms are the magic-makers-in-chief when it comes to the holidays. And with so much on our minds, from dinner menus to gift lists and everything in between, we'll take any little easy shortcuts we can get, thanks. These TikTok holiday hacks are perfect for just that - and they actually work. No, these are not the weird "hacks" that make you roll your eyes at the internet these days.

The author of The Art of the Deal always likes to claim he's a big winner when it comes to any business arrangement he makes. And in some ways, Donald Trump appears to have won big by finalizing a deal that will see Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX take part-ownership of a new joint venture designed to oversee operations in the United States of TikTok, the wildly popular social video appl.

In 2019, TikTok announced a " formal relationship" with the National Parent Teacher Association, which describes itself as the largest child advocacy group in America. They published a TikTok Guide for Parents packed with instructions on " digital safety " and how to "decide the best experience for your family." What TikTok did not say, lawsuits filed against the company allege, was that internal documents had begun to reveal that the company knew its technology was harming kids-the short-form video app's target audience.

The deal, expected to close in late January, will give Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX a combined 45% stake in the US joint venture. ByteDance will maintain ownership of just under 20% of the US business, but retain oversight of the rest of the world and manage TikTok US's e-commerce, advertising, and marketing strategies. Why It Matters: This deal signifies a significant shift in the ownership structure of TikTok's US operations.

"I went into a meeting the other day and mentioned that I'd watched 'Wild at Heart' the night before," says Rae, who's 25. She's wearing tight jeans, heels and a baggy Harvard hoodie and twirls the sweatshirt's drawstrings in her fingers as she speaks. "They were so astounded. I was like, 'Is this not just one of the things you should know if you're in this business?'"

The company has told US staffers across several large divisions that they will need to return to the office five days a week next year, two affected workers told Business Insider. The return-to-office push, which kicks off in September, will affect US employees across a wide set of roles, including staffers who work on advertising sales, marketing, and product, the employees said.

the entire backend used to manage its phone farm - so it provides an extraordinary glimpse at how the service is actually being used to manipulate social media at scale. Speaking to 404 on condition of anonymity, the hacker said they can "see the phones in use, which manager [computers controlling the phones] they had, which TikTok accounts they were assigned, proxies in use (and their passwords), and pending tasks. As well as the link to control devices for each manager."

The yellow font theory is tough to miss, and that's 100% the point. It shows up as large, neon yellow text on your screen, with either a video or a picture behind it. The text will say something poetic, and then there will often be a caption or hashtag that says #yellowfont, #yellowfonttheory, or #yellowfontbtw. Many of the most viral videos come from creator @yellowfont.halfspeed, who has dozens of aesthetically pleasing posts, some with millions of views.

"There are boy aquariums all over the United States," a TikTok creator explains in a recent post. The video then shows a clip of someone carrying a bucket filled with hockey pucks. "Come feed the fish at the boy aquarium with me," the closed captions reads. The person tosses the pucks onto the rink as players skate past. On TikTok, ice hockey arenas have been rebranded as "boy aquariums."

Jennings's article focused on people using TikTok gain a more in-depth knowledge of ADHD. "Arguably no part of mental health TikTok is as omnipresent or as fraught as ADHD TikTok," Jennings wrote - and addressed one of the biggest challenges that arose from its prominence, namely: at what point does getting advice from an app overtake getting actual medical advice?

Critically endangered animals are being advertised for sale as bushmeat on TikTok, a new study finds. The work, published recently in Nature Conservation, underscores the growing role social media plays in the global illegal wildlife trade. Bushmeatmeat sourced from wild animalsis commonly eaten in many African and some Asian countries. Though some people hunt for personal consumption, many hunters sell meat to regional traders, who may then sell it to families or restaurants.

Lilian, a 35-year-old Kenyan living in Qatar, was scrolling on TikTok in April when she saw posts from a recruitment agency offering jobs overseas. The Kenya-based WorldPath House of Travel, with more than 20,000 followers on the social media platform, promised hassle-free work visas for jobs across Europe. They were showing work permits they'd received, envelopes, like: We have Europe visas already,' Lilian recalls.

An 88-year-old army veteran received the surprise of a lifetime from strangers around the world thanks to a viral TikTok video that raised $1.8 million for him. The video was recorded and shared by Australian positivity influencer Sam Wetenhoeffer, who was on what he called a US Kindness Tour through the Christmas holiday. Wetenhoeffer met Ed Bambas from Michigan, who was working the checkout line at a Meijer supermarket.

Everyone in my life will be seeing this video.

Before getting into the details, Roberto Ytaysaba, who is from Brazil, wants to make one thing perfectly clear: neither he nor the Anace Indigenous people, whom he leads, are against progress. We're not against progress if it respects the communities, nature, spirituality, the autonomy of [native] peoples and Convention 169, he clarifies, one recent morning in his village. They've had electricity here since the 1980s. The school teaches ethnomathematics to the children.

Of the accounts that posted content most frequently, half focused on content related to the female body. These AI women are always stereotypically attractive, with sexualised attire or cleavage, the report said. AI Forensics found the accounts did not label half of the content they posted and less than 2% carried the TikTok label for AI content which the nonprofit warned could increase the material's deceptive potential.