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Are Teenage Boys the New Looksmaxxing Fangirls?

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 Dustin Garcia Dustin Garcia, Looksmaxxing, Social media, Societal Norms, Teenage men, TikTok

Looksmaxxing it’s been all over the place since 2021 but more importantly, its continuous prominence on TikTok. What draws young

Models & Humans

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025 Dustin Garcia Dustin Garcia, Humans, Models, Social media, Society, Trends

We see models everywhere. They appear in TV commercials, YouTube ads, magazines, TV shows, movies, and anything related to some

Addressing Social Media’s Promotion of Medicines

January 23, 2025January 27, 2025 Kimberley Trang Dustin Garcia, Kimberley Trang, Medicines, pro/con, Social media, Trends

The advertisement of medicine online has provided infinite benefits to people from all backgrounds and walks of life. It has

Aesthetics and Their Subcultures: The Age of Self-Expression

October 31, 2024October 31, 2024 Emily King Aesthetics, Emily King, Influence, Self-Expression, Social media, Style, Trends

Self-expression has always been a means through which people speak for themselves. In this case, however, the floodgates have broken

Social Media Focus: The Rise of Parasocial Relationships

October 23, 2024October 23, 2024 Kimberley Trang Allyson Murphy, Celebrities, Kimberley Trang, Parasocial relationships, Social media, TikTok, Trends

Photo made by AI, directed by Dustin Garcia

From Tik Tok Trends to Starbucks Runs: Social Media and Teen Overconsumption

October 15, 2024October 15, 2024 Emily King Emily King, Instagram, Overconsumption, Social media, Starbucks, Teens, TikTok, Trends

Recently, TikTok, Instagram, and Pinterest have shaped how high schoolers consume products to feed into the emerging culture of overconsumption.

The Democrats of TikTok

March 12, 2024March 12, 2024 Former Staff Member Anusha Kumar, Democratic Party, Election, Joe Biden, Kimberley Trang, Politics, Social media, TikTok

As the 2024 Presidential Election approaches, political parties have been trying to get support from their bases. The Democratic Party,

The Trend Train

November 16, 2023November 16, 2023 Hannah Pritchett Hair, Life, makeup, nail polish, Opinions, Satire, Social media

Ah yes, the Trend Train: a seemingly endless convoy of fashions, fads, and crazes. What we previously assumed to be

Modern Manifestation and the Art of Romanticizing Delusion

March 29, 2023March 29, 2023 Taylor Lindsley Delusion, History, Manifestation, Religon, Self Affirmations, Social media, Subliminals, TikTok

Delusion is defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects

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