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[Link] These Robotic Reddit TikTok Accounts Come From a Content Farming Discord

Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com

If you’re on TikTok recently you may have seen a spike in so-called Reddit Stories accounts, which upload TikToks that read out stories written on Reddit and which sometimes have footage of video games playing in the background.

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[Link] ‘It is surreal’: the five-second book reviews going viral on TikTok

Read: 2/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

Fifteen seconds is all you need. Point your phone camera to a shelf and hold up your favourite book, or three. Add a trending soundtrack, a caption, a couple of hashtags – #BookTok #FYP. Throw a pandemic into the mix and you have the formula: you can make a book review go viral.

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[Link] Meet the Guy Who’s Finessing the Six Flags Meal Pass

Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com

One man’s theme park is another man’s dinner plan.

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[Link] Landlords Furious When Tenant Takes Her Garden Setup With Her After Kicking Her Out

Read: 6/11/2021 god.dailydot.com

Another entry in Reddit’s famous “Am I the A–hole” forum has left people with absolutely no doubt as to the answer after a young woman removed her self-installed backyard garden setup to take with her when her landlords declined to renew her lease so that they could sell the house she had be

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[Link] Zillow Is Killing Its Home-Buyer Service, Cutting 25 Percent of Workforce

Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com

Only months after announcing plans to dramatically ramp up Zillow Offers, its home-buying iBuyer service, Zillow announced Tuesday that it is effectively killing it, saying it was too difficult to accurately price homes and only served a small percentage of its customer base.

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[Link] Illegal House Party During NZ Lockdown Pisses Off Just About Everyone

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

As Auckland approaches its eleventh consecutive week of lockdown, a viral house party filled with dry humping Instagram models has caused outrage.

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[Link] YouTube Removes Legendary Meme Video After 14 Years for ‘Violence’

Read: 29/9/2021 www.vice.com

You probably don’t know Paul Weedon by name, but you’ve probably seen him get punched in the face.

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