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· Editorial Staff
Teen’s Racist TikTok Blames Chinese People for ‘Cooking Dogs’ and ‘Eating Bats’
Editor’s Note: This post has been updated with an apology video from @thesilasjames. A TikTok user has come under fire on Twitter after posting a video painting Chinese people as consumers of bats and therefore responsible for the spread of COVID-19.
· Carl Samson
TikTok Rival Triller Donates 150,000 N95 Respirators, Surgical Masks to Hospitals in LA
A social video platform touted as TikTok’s biggest American rival has donated 150,000 N95 respirators and surgical masks to first responders and essential workers fighting COVID-19 in Los Angeles, California. Triller, headquartered in Hollywood, received acknowledgment for its…
· Ryan General
Influencer Sparks Outrage with ‘Corona Time’ Video at Nail Salon on TikTok
A popular YouTuber is taking some heat for her recent TikTok video in which she apparently ridiculed a nail salon worker. Nicola DeMartino, popularly known as Niki DeMar, visited a nail salon with a friend and created a video that also captured the woman doing their nails.
· Ryan General
Korean Woman Shares Touching Reunion With Birth Mom and Sister After 33 YEARS on TikTok
A woman adopted as an infant by American parents from South Korea recently met her biological mother and sister in a reunion that took 33 years to happen. Raised in Chickasha, Oklahoma by her adoptive parents, Nancy and Jimmy, 33-year-old Shelee Henderson shared that she grew up…
· Bryan Ke
Vietnam Made a Fire PSA on Coronavirus That’s Now a Viral Dance Challenge on TikTok
Vietnamese health officials released a brilliant way to spread awareness about how people can protect themselves from being infected by the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and it has since lead to a dance challenge. The video features animations explaining how to prevent…
· Carl Samson
Man Goes Viral Using Rice to Show Jeff Bezos’ Wealth on TikTok
An e-commerce consultant who found his niche on TikTok by posting financial literacy videos has gone viral after using grains of rice to create a visual representation of Jeff Bezos’s wealth. @humphreytalksThis took me hours don’t let it flop ##billion ##money ##personalfinance…
· Carl Samson
Asian American Model Shows How White People Fetishize Asians in Viral TikTok Video
A young Asian American model has found fame on TikTok after posting a tongue-in-cheek video that highlights one struggle he faces when dating White people. Abe Kim, a college junior, addressed the romantic and/or sexual fetishization of Asians, a controversial concept that has…
· Ryan General
Asian Teens Are Using TikTok to Address Coronavirus Racism
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak has not only brought fear and panic to many across the world but has also revealed racist tendencies. As the coronavirus made headlines earlier this year, xenophobic sentiments began emerging in various forms as well. In the United States and…
· Bryan Ke
Medical Doctor Drops FACTS on Novel Coronavirus in TikTok Video
Doctor Dagny Zhu, an eye doctor at NVISION Eye Center, is using TikTok to lay down facts about the novel coronavirus (or 2019-nCoV). In her TikTok video, Dr. Zhu tried to calm everyone down by comparing the numbers of infected people and the mortality rate of the novel…
· Bryan Ke
TikTok Users Are Putting Their Testicles in Soy Sauce After ‘Taste Bud’ Myth
Some male TikTok users are dipping their testicles in soy sauce as part of a new trend that has been circulating on social media. The weird science experiment went viral on Twitter after user @mightbecursed shared a link of a 2013 study published in the Proceedings of the…
· Bryan Ke
America’s Answer to TikTok is a Startup That Rappers Just Invested MILLIONS in With an Asian Founder
Social video platform Triller is now on its way to overtake TikTok in the United States as it lands millions of dollars in investments from many famous recording artists, such as Snoop Dogg, Kendrick Lamar and more. Triller has 26.5 million monthly active users in the U.S. while…
· Carl Samson
TikTok User Tries to Open Rambutan With POTATO PEELER and Asians Are Screaming
A clueless TikTok user from the United States attempted to get through a piece of rambutan with a potato peeler. With dozens — if not hundreds — of rugged spikes for a “hairy” exterior, it comes as no surprise that the rambutan has been called an “alien fruit,” all thanks to the…
· Jin Hyun
Teen Accuses TikTok of Locking Her Account For Criticizing China’s Treatment of Uyghur Muslims
Seventeen-year-old Feroza Aziz posted a TikTok video promising to show viewers how to get longer eyelashes, instead, she abruptly changed the topic to discuss something far more serious. Disguised as a makeup tutorial, the true purpose of Aziz’s video was to spread awareness and…
· Ryan General
TikTok’s Owner Made Over $7 Billion in Revenue in the First Half of 2019 Alone
TikTok is either a fun video-sharing app for youngsters or an annoying fad for adults. Regardless of how you view the platform, however, it remains a huge revenue source for its parent company ByteDance.
· Bryan Ke
Chinese Designer and Her Sister are Killing the Fashion Game on TikTok
A Chinese woman is stopping users in their tracks with her impressive fashion videos on TikTok. The account @loora888 belongs to a China-based fashion designer Loora Wang, who owns a label called Loora PWD, according to BuzzFeed News.
· Bryan Ke
Woman on TikTok Buys Drink From Vending Machine Using Just Her Face
Chinese technology expert Matthew Brennan recently shared a TikTok video of a woman buying from a vending machine using only her face. In the video, a woman walks up to a vending machine, stops to get her face scanned and takes the drink. The purchase did not require her to take…
· Carl Samson
TikTok Star Can Turn Tablecloths Into Incredible Party Dresses in Seconds
A TikTok user is gaining more followers by the minute thanks to her ability to turn large swaths of cloth into elegant party dresses in a matter of seconds. The rising star, who goes by the username @lisagud5 on the platform, executes her transformations with unbelievable…
· Bryan Ke
Man in China Reunited with Family After 8 Years After Viral TikTok Videos
After being missing for eight years, a man was finally reunited with his family in China after locals posted clips of him on TikTok, also known as video sharing platform Douyin. Zhu Lei, who has a wife and a 10-year-old son, went missing when he went to work in Shanghai on May…
· Leanna Chan
How to SUCCESSFULLY Make Whipped Korean Dalgona Coffee
Whipped coffee, or Korean Dalgona coffee, has taken over our feeds by storm. *Almost* everyone is making, or has tried to make, this fluffy inverted latte during quarantine. If you’re like us, you had a few unsuccessful attempts before you made anything remotely similar to those…
· Editorial Staff
Latina Singer Malu Targets Chinese People With Racist Comments on Instagram Live
Malu Trevejo, a Cuban-born Spanish singer based in Miami, Florida, has drawn backlash from the Asian community after making racially charged comments targeting the Chinese community in a recent Instagram livestream.