The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/tiktok/page/2/)
TikTok is taking over the food world. TikTok everywhere have come up with many creative ways to spice up the mundane quarantine life, and among them, viral food videos top the list. The best thing about many of TikTok’s emerging food trends is that most of them only require a handful of ingredients you’re likely to have at home. Below are a few popular trends that you should definitely check out. 1.
Following announcement of bans, TikTok and WeChat still stand, however with pending decisions that could have an adverse impact on communication.
This week I had the opportunity to interview Jeremy Scheck, a current Cornell undergraduate student who has risen to the ranks of TikTok star. Like most students, Jeremy started spending his free time on social media giant TikTok to distract himself from boredom in quarantine. But what makes Jeremy’s experience noteworthy, is the fact that his videos have gained so much popularity that he has now over one million followers. He shares high quality videos of food he prepares. To start with a little background, Jeremy is a current junior here at Cornell majoring in Spanish and Italian.
Good things have certainly sprung from TikTok — whether you see it as the embarrassment of Trump’s Tulsa rally or the inspiration of watching someone sew a dress from scratch — but so have the sinister parts of its nature. Many point to the app’s addictive design, but for me, it’s the high potential of losing myself in a TikTok reality.
Those who disregard the measures Cornell has clearly laid out for us to succeed in returning to campus this fall put our whole community at risk, and should be sent away.
“I think [China] uses its censorship to nefarious ends, but the American version is also not all that appealing,” said Friedman. “It’s not to say that there should be no controls, but the political content of our speech should at least be protected on the Internet.”
Cornell’s Class of 2024 includes at least one growing TikTok star, who rose to social media fame through sharing her college admissions journey.
TikTok, since its launch, has become one of the boldest and most influential representations of Gen Z’s artistic voice.
He can’t Renegade, but with 1.1 million followers and counting, one Cornell first-year is starting to feel the fame –– TikTok fame that is. John Dombrowski ’23 has amassed a cult following on the popular app, and it shows no signs of slowing.
Even more, the viral nature of TikTok has produced an entirely new generation of youths viewing social media as a performative pursuit.