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08.02.2022 - 17:43 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok is taking new steps to protect the LGBTQ community and women from harassment and hate speech.The widely used short-form video app, which has more than 1 billion monthly users, on Tuesday announced updates to its Community Guidelines to expressly prohibit misgendering, deadnaming and misogyny, as well as ban any content that supports or promotes so-called “conversion therapy” programs on the platform.“Though these ideologies have long been prohibited on TikTok, we’ve heard from creators and civil society organizations that it’s important to be explicit in our Community Guidelines,” Cormac Keenan, TikTok’s head of trust and safety, wrote in a blog post about the changes. “On top of this, we hope our recent feature enabling people to add their pronouns will encourage respectful and inclusive dialogue on our platform.” The changes come as TikTok — along with other social media apps — have been a continual target of critics who argue that internet companies do not do an adequate job of protecting users from hate speech and harassment.Advocacy organization GLAAD applauded TikTok’s updated guidelines.
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While Lily James in Pam & Tommy may have tempted you to embrace the 90s skinny-brow trend, stop what you’re doing and step away from the tweezers – because according to TikTokers and brow experts, big, bushy eyebrows are here to stay. Gone are the days of Kim Kardashian’s perfectly sculpted Insta-brow, featuring super high arches and razor-sharp tails.
A 15-year-old girl died after accidentally shooting herself with a submachine gun while recording a video for TikTok.
Glamour. “It wasn’t until I was 31 when I started writing for fun that it actually turned into something.”In lieu of the traditional path, which involves querying agents and submitting the book to standard publishers, Hoover self-published her first novel, , in 2012. To her surprise, Slammed and it’s sequel would both make the New York Times best seller list in August of that year thanks to a five-star review from a popular book blogger.“It was surreal and still is surreal," she says.
Watch Lindsay Lohan swap drama for fitness in new Superbowl adLindsay Lohan recreates iconic scene from ‘The Parent Trap’ on TikTokThe video shows Lindsay speaking straight at the camera and wearing a light colored sweater. “Hey everyone, it’s Lindsay Lohan, and guess what? Now I’m on TikTok,“ she said, pronouncing her name with a silent ‘h’, going against everything we know. The majority of people pronounce ‘Lohan’ with an emphasis on the ‘h’.
Lindsay Lohan has the most iconic filmography, including ‘Mean Girls,’ ‘Freaky Friday,’ and the 1998 remake ‘The Parent Trap,’ in which she played twins Hallie Parker and Annie James.And now that the Hollywood star is making a comeback, with new exciting projects and her new Super Bowl commercial, Lindsay is giving her die-hard fans everything they want with a new TikTok video, recreating one of the most famous scenes from the movie.The 35-year-old actress lip-syncs as Hallie in the clip, “Yes, you want to know the difference between us,” continuing the dialogue as Annie, “I have class and you don’t.”The video has already been watched over 2 million times, showing that she is still an icon, making viewers feel nostalgic about the famous remake and making fans excited for more upcoming projects, including the Netflix film ‘Falling for Christmas’ premiering this year.
Facebook Reels, which launched on Instagram as a competitor of TikTok, has expanded to 150 countries as a feature on Facebook.
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Pot Roast, one of the most beloved cats on TikTok with almost a million followers, has sadly passed away.
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New Zealand has voted to protect LGBTQ youth from so-called “conversion therapy.”In an almost unanimous vote, the New Zealand Parliament voted 112 to eight in favour of banning the controversial practice. So-called “conversion therapy” is the discredited and dangerous practice that is intended to change, often by force, a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity and expression. The New Zealand Herald reported that it is now an offence to “perform conversion practices on a child or young person aged under 18, or on someone with impaired decision-making capacity. Such offences would be subject to up to three years’ imprisonment, and up to five years where it has caused serious harm, irrespective of age.”Leader of End Conversion Therapy NZ Shaneel Lal tweeted, “The ban on conversion therapy is a win for humanity, not just the queer community.
TikTok has announced an effort to protect both the LGBTQ community and women from hate speech.
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticTikTok, the omnipresent video-based social-media app that launched five years ago, has always seemed a less serious, more frivolously youthquakey destination than a number of other online networking services — most obviously Facebook. Yet as Shalini Kantayya’s sprightly, informative documentary “TikTok, Boom.” makes clear, there are more levels to the TikTok phenomenon than there are to almost any other blockbuster app.There are the countless people who consume it: the kids from all over the world who get addicted to watching the up-to-three-minute-long videos (dances, pranks, sexy flaunts, tutorials, monologues, protest messages) as if they were popping Sour Patch Kids.