Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat do you do when your partner’s love language is sending TikToks…of the strangest relationship trends?
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Reading Time: 4 minutesGraduate from U of O goes viral for his creative recipes involving cucumbers
Reading Time: 3 minutesThose of us who have seemingly unlimited access to TikTok need to check our privilege at the door and have some perspective.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith the summer excitement dwindling, it’s time to review The Fulcrum’s favourite songs that trended this summer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFast fashion, overconsumption, haul culture, and consumerism in general aren’t going anywhere. But perhaps #deinfluencing can encourage us to be thoughtful about what we buy and to be skeptical about anyone with a discount code.
Reading Time: 3 minutesInstead of watching a 10 minute video of someone reviewing makeup while updating on their life, it can be done in one minute.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs we deviate towards quick and easy consumable content, our experience of the world becomes a bunch of fragments, absent of nuance.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Oct. 22, the Fulcrum’s Facebook page was unpublished for, allegedly, breaking Facebook’s page policies. Which policies? We couldn’t tell you. Since then, our editor-in-chief has launched two appeals to Facebook, but we still have yet to hear back from the social media giant.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s utility in these platforms to talk about eating disorders without triggering vulnerable targets into having them.
Reading Time: 2 minutesTrump is set on a TikTok ban. I am concerned that this ban will intensify the divide between Eastern and Western internet users.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe term ‘simp’ has become a common word in many people’s vocabulary after social media influencers brought the concept to light. However, it has created an incredibly toxic environment that implies women are lesser than men, and men are shamed for treating women with decency.
Reading Time: 2 minutesScared to come to university after what you’ve seen from reopening universities on TikTok? Have no fear at the U of O!
