Minivans And The Myth Of Manliness If the 2024 Presidential Election has shown us anything, it’s that Gen Z cishet white men are being sucked into a world of brain rot and alt-right podcasts. These guys are feasting on the insecurities and perceived shortcomings of this group for their own financial gains, and it’s working. They don’t really have wars… Read more…
The Myth of Migrant Crime Republicans suggest that immigrants are especially likely to be criminals. The data shows the opposite.
Google’s E-E-A-T & The Myth Of The Perfect Ranking Signal via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google clarifies E-E-A-T’s role in search rankings, emphasizing quality content over chasing specific signals for improved search performance. The post Google’s E-E-A-T & The Myth Of The Perfect Ranking Signal appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
TikTok Myth of the Week: Raw Milk Is Good For You People, no! We invented pasteurization for a reason!
TikTok Myth of the Week: ‘Oatzempic’ Is a Weight Loss Hack It’s just watered-down oatmeal, folks.
TikTok Myth of the Week: Your Guts Are Full of Poop Some TikTok myths I find in the wild (like the tales of supposed tick attacks), while other times I’m tipped off by a news article claiming there’s a trend. The latest flurry of TikTok coverage claims that people on the platform are pushing laxatives as “budget Ozempic” (no relation to “nature’s Ozempic”), a fact I… Read more…
TikTok Myth of the Week: Bananas Destroy the Nutrients in Smoothies TikTok loves a banana smoothie. In a few minutes of scrolling you can see smoothie recipes, banana-freezing tips (peel it first!), and video after video of people with visible abs loading bananas and other fruits into a blender in their kitchen. But wait! There’s a new genre of smoothie content, now warning us to never… Read more…
TikTok Myth of the Week: Tick Hoaxes The first time I saw one of these videos on TikTok, I couldn’t bear to look too closely. A doctor was cutting a man’s pants off, and asking him what happened; under the pants were dozens of dark, oval lumps embedded in his skin. They almost looked like ticks—but not ticks. Something else. I flicked the video away, not… Read more…
TikTok Myth of the Week: There’s Plastic on Your Lettuce The industrial-scale systems that grow and process our food can be strange and scary sometimes. But as we saw with myths like “whitened” milk and McDonald’s worm burgers, our imaginations run wilder than the truth. The latest urban legend about food? Plastic coating our lettuce. Read more…
TikTok Myth of the Week: Berberine Is ‘Nature’s Ozempic’ There’s a lot that’s shitty about our healthcare system. Even if you have a pretty good idea of what treatment will help you, it takes a lot of time and money to go through the proper channels to get it. So there will always be a market for anything that you can simply order online and start taking, doctors be damned.… Read more…
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