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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 27/09/2026
#786: Listening to “Abracadabra” on Belarussian prison radio • Plus: Zuckerberg’s fashion, ex-tradwives, and the aesthetics of r/malelivingspace
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#786: Listening to “Abracadabra” on Belarussian prison radio
Plus: Zuckerberg’s fashion, ex-tradwives, and the aesthetics of r/malelivingspace
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 20/09/2026
#785: Phoning home • Plus: Synthetic content, crashing for clicks and participatory vicarious nostalgia
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#785: Phoning home
Plus: Synthetic content, crashing for clicks and participatory vicarious nostalgia
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 13/09/2026
#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse • Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era
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#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse
Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 06/09/2026
#783: The end of spoken conversation • Plus: Pandora Radio, birthday mania and the “perimenopause industrial complex”
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#783: The end of spoken conversation
Plus: Pandora Radio, birthday mania and the “perimenopause industrial complex”
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 30/08/2026
#782: I saw this and I thought of you • Plus: Group chats, unsent love letters and optimization
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#782: I saw this and I thought of you
Plus: Group chats, unsent love letters and optimization
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 23/08/2026
#781: A whole different view of the place • Plus: Surveillance summer, the CIA of sororities, and the triumph of the sobbing-face emoji
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#781: A whole different view of the place
Plus: Surveillance summer, the CIA of sororities, and the triumph of the sobbing-face emoji
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 09/08/2026
#780: Play the banana song! • Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially
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#780: Play the banana song!
Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 04/08/2026
#779: Trees are on Google Maps now • Plus: The post-influencer internet, the most prolific Wikipedian and the new Luddite movement
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#779: Trees are on Google Maps now
Plus: The post-influencer internet, the most prolific Wikipedian and the new Luddite movement
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 19/07/2026
#777: Happily surrendering our leisure to lines • Plus: the physicality of data, the second coming of froyo, and the rise of "dopamine sites"
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#777: Happily surrendering our leisure to lines
Plus: the physicality of data, the second coming of froyo, and the rise of "dopamine sites"
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 05/07/2026
An uncomfortably candid update on this newsletter • Plus: a reader survey, subscriber perks, space lettuce, etc.
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An uncomfortably candid update on this newsletter
Plus: a reader survey, subscriber perks, space lettuce, etc.
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 28/06/2026
#775: Uniquely modern sorrows • Plus: Loneliness clubs, fancy Jell-O shot summer and texting your dog
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#775: Uniquely modern sorrows
Plus: Loneliness clubs, fancy Jell-O shot summer and texting your dog
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 21/06/2026
#774: Outed by autocomplete • Plus: Admin Nights, future houses and the new reigning consumer aesthetic
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#774: Outed by autocomplete
Plus: Admin Nights, future houses and the new reigning consumer aesthetic
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 15/06/2026
#773: Regressing to the mean • Plus: slop wildlife, the post-American internet and AI for emotional labor
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#773: Regressing to the mean
Plus: slop wildlife, the post-American internet and AI for emotional labor
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 07/06/2026
#772: Gratuitous pandering • Plus: Timeline acquaintances, digital clutter and the grown men bullying kids on Twitter
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#772: Gratuitous pandering
Plus: Timeline acquaintances, digital clutter and the grown men bullying kids on Twitter
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 31/05/2026
#771: A mutual exchange of inconveniences • Plus: Amish AI, looksmaxxing babies and analog tech as accessory
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#771: A mutual exchange of inconveniences
Plus: Amish AI, looksmaxxing babies and analog tech as accessory
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 17/05/2026
#770: The last quarter-zip at the end of the world • Plus: Living randomly, eating Biblically, etc.
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#770: The last quarter-zip at the end of the world
Plus: Living randomly, eating Biblically, etc.
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 03/05/2026
#768: Unholy hot • Books that trick you into thinking, normie lib conspiracists, unhinged email signatures and other such amusements
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#768: Unholy hot
Books that trick you into thinking, normie lib conspiracists, unhinged email signatures and other such amusements
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 19/04/2026
#766: An AI company you can wear without socks • Plus: Wedding Brain, news hustlers, the importance of talking to strangers and the best restaurant bread in America
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#766: An AI company you can wear without socks
Plus: Wedding Brain, news hustlers, the importance of talking to strangers and the best restaurant bread in America
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 30/03/2026
#765: Of Trojan horses and tortilla chips • Plus: Those freaky fruit videos, "nightlife content" and lip filler accent
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#765: Of Trojan horses and tortilla chips
Plus: Those freaky fruit videos, "nightlife content" and lip filler accent
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 23/03/2026
#764: It's been a year • Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs
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#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 09/03/2026
#762: One weird trick to make new friends • Plus: Dubai influencers, cultural time and the "most uplifting corner" of the internet
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#762: One weird trick to make new friends
Plus: Dubai influencers, cultural time and the "most uplifting corner" of the internet
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 02/03/2026
#761: Not every brother is a bro • Plus: Oppressive praise, baby names and the American exodus
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#761: Not every brother is a bro
Plus: Oppressive praise, baby names and the American exodus
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 16/02/2026
#759: Red flags and link bouquets • Gonna take up birding when AI comes for me
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#759: Red flags and link bouquets
Gonna take up birding when AI comes for me
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 10/02/2026
#758: Who's that baby? • Honestly a ton of links about mothers this week, that was not intentional
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#758: Who's that baby?
Honestly a ton of links about mothers this week, that was not intentional
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 02/02/2026
#757: Read the room • Plus: analog aesthetics and "cheap injectables"
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#757: Read the room
Plus: analog aesthetics and "cheap injectables"
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 25/01/2026
#756: "The most shocking thing possible" • Plus: Bookstreaming, weather influencers and sad subreddits
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#756: "The most shocking thing possible"
Plus: Bookstreaming, weather influencers and sad subreddits
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 11/01/2026
#754: What a start • Plus: robot restaurants, Monkey Christ, slop names and friction
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#754: What a start
Plus: robot restaurants, Monkey Christ, slop names and friction
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 21/12/2025
The 20 best links of 2025 • Brain rot, viral poems and generational cringe
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The 20 best links of 2025
Brain rot, viral poems and generational cringe
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 14/12/2025
#753: If you like that, you might also like this • Plus: I'm the new author of Vox's "Today, Explained" newsletter
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#753: If you like that, you might also like this
Plus: I'm the new author of Vox's "Today, Explained" newsletter
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 07/12/2025
#752: To post is to calculate • Plus: otherworlds, cozy lit and VHS rentals
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#752: To post is to calculate
Plus: otherworlds, cozy lit and VHS rentals
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 30/11/2025
#751: Slop recipes and self-made bops • Just happy to be here, in your inbox
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#751: Slop recipes and self-made bops
Just happy to be here, in your inbox
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 23/11/2025
#750: Scavenging in the wreckage • Plus: I saw the best memes of my generation destroyed by the onslaught of adulthood
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#750: Scavenging in the wreckage
Plus: I saw the best memes of my generation destroyed by the onslaught of adulthood
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 16/11/2025
#749: The last good thing on Twitter • Plus: independent peer cultures and youth internet grift
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#749: The last good thing on Twitter
Plus: independent peer cultures and youth internet grift
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 09/11/2025
#748: An elaborate Dadaist prank • Plus: Slop politics, subpoenas and Gawker’s Best Restaurant series
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#748: An elaborate Dadaist prank
Plus: Slop politics, subpoenas and Gawker’s Best Restaurant series
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 01/11/2025
#747: "Silence is hated" • Plus: Grokipedia, goons and getting directions
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#747: "Silence is hated"
Plus: Grokipedia, goons and getting directions
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 20/10/2025
#746: Everything is TV but TV is YouTube • Plus: clip culture, chatfishing and Talibros
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#746: Everything is TV but TV is YouTube
Plus: clip culture, chatfishing and Talibros
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 11/10/2025
#745: Prime Daze • Plus: Klarna culture, Trump aesthetics and the joys of location-sharing
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#745: Prime Daze
Plus: Klarna culture, Trump aesthetics and the joys of location-sharing
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 04/10/2025
#744: Life as content • Plus: literacy, Labubu and an antisocial social app
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#744: Life as content
Plus: literacy, Labubu and an antisocial social app
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 28/09/2025
#743: The future is being written by kids who thought 'Black Mirror' was aspirational • Plus: 4chan for women, faerie smut and a TikTok trend I heartily endorse
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#743: The future is being written by kids who thought 'Black Mirror' was aspirational
Plus: 4chan for women, faerie smut and a TikTok trend I heartily endorse
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 20/09/2025
#742: Surveillance culture and MAHA mommy bloggers • Plus assorted other slop, fluff and propaganda
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#742: Surveillance culture and MAHA mommy bloggers
Plus assorted other slop, fluff and propaganda
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 07/09/2025
#741: A slippery thought experiment • Plus em dashes, empaths and TikTok birth control skeptics
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#741: A slippery thought experiment
Plus em dashes, empaths and TikTok birth control skeptics
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 31/08/2025
#740: The gamification of culture • Plus "algorithm movies" and historical nostalgia
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#740: The gamification of culture
Plus "algorithm movies" and historical nostalgia
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 23/08/2025
#739: How information works online now • Plus: the (self-defeating?) quest to sound more human online
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#739: How information works online now
Plus: the (self-defeating?) quest to sound more human online
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 17/08/2025
#738: Teapot tempests and Bayou daddies • Plus the last unyielding vestiges of monoculture
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#738: Teapot tempests and Bayou daddies
Plus the last unyielding vestiges of monoculture
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 09/08/2025
#737: I think we’re allowed to just have fun sometimes? • Plus an alternate theory for why we didn't get a "song of the summer" this year
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#737: I think we’re allowed to just have fun sometimes?
Plus an alternate theory for why we didn't get a "song of the summer" this year
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 03/08/2025
#736: TikTok detectives and viral dupes • Links weekend edition is BACK, baby
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#736: TikTok detectives and viral dupes
Links weekend edition is BACK, baby
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 31/07/2025
Nobody posts online anymore • Call it the revenge of the lurkers
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Nobody posts online anymore
Call it the revenge of the lurkers
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 20/06/2025
The cult of performative hydration • On Stanleys, seltzer, reverse-osmosis, water additives and the regressive charms of luxury wellness
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The cult of performative hydration
On Stanleys, seltzer, reverse-osmosis, water additives and the regressive charms of luxury wellness
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 28/05/2025
When gamification goes too far • Meet the unrepentant cheaters of Duolingo
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When gamification goes too far
Meet the unrepentant cheaters of Duolingo
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Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends @linksiwouldgchatyou.skystack.xyz · 30/04/2025
How TikTok drives the pop music machine • Without the app, we might not have artists like Benson Boone and Shaboozey
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How TikTok drives the pop music machine
Without the app, we might not have artists like Benson Boone and Shaboozey
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