If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. TikTok is undeniably the modern shopping mall when it comes to discovering today’s hottest tech gadgets and covet-worthy home accessories (although with decidedly less eau de Abercrombie perfume …
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The Marxist political scientist Michael Parenti once wrote, “The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital.” Perhaps no one knows this more intimately than90-Day Fiancestar Stephanie Matto, a YouTuber turned adult content creator who claims to have made upwards of $200,000 selling her farts …
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Parenting blogger and former Bachelor contestant Bekah Martinez takes most Sundays off of Instagram to spend time at her California home with her husband and two children. When Monday arrives, though, she’s ready to start the week. “Usually we have our nanny Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays so that I can …
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One night in early September, a friend of Chukwuka Ekweani sent him a clip of his song “Love Nwantiti” being used in a TikTok challenge. The friend told him he thought the sound would be huge on the app, but Ekweani — a Nigerian emo-Afrobeats singer-songwriter and producer who performs …
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Pearpop, the social media marketplace that allows celebrity TikTokers to to charge smaller creators for different types of engagement on the app, has closed a $16 million funding round, the company announced on Thursday. It successfully courted prominent music artists, athletes, and venture capitalists in the process. The startup brought …
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To the untrained eye, the Tramp Stamps might look like any run-of-the-mill Gen Z band you’d come across on TikTok. Boasting turquoise- and fuschia-dyed hair and fishnets with jean shorts, the trio has posted dozens of videos of them performing covers of Avril Lavigne, Wheatus, and songs by other members …
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Approximately once in a generation (and by generation, we mean news cycle), there emerges a trope that takes the experience of young womanhood — in all its beautiful, maddening, tumultuous, tear-stained glory — and flattens it to the point that it means virtually nothing. In the 1980s, it was the …
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Earlier this month, “Omae Wa Mou,” a cheerful instrumental built around an obscure sample of Japanese bossa nova, reached Number One on the Spotify viral chartthanks to a meme that spawned a TikTok dance craze. But Deadman 死人, the 18-year-old producer behind the track, was barely able to celebrate: The …
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