A Sunday Newsletter
The Death of TikTok, Beef Stew and the Rivals
I witnessed the dramatic fake* death of TikTok in the USA. Right before of my eyes.
* it turns out it was just a coup as we know now, and honestly we all saw it coming right?!
Just as I was finally starting to make sense of the platform—creating content that was actually being viewed and gaining followers by the day (Eat that, Instagram!)—it all vanished. Poof. Gone. And I sadly watched it happen right in front of me. The irony isn’t lost on me, it was like an evil twist of fate, salt rubbed on a wound, a black fly in my Chardonnay (Alanis reference, keep up!).
I’ve been solo parenting for a week now—though can you even call it that when the house is full of teenagers who are all taller than me? Or am I just the resident adult, ensuring there’s no shenanigans, they are fed proper meals, and wear clean underwear?
Usually C and I go to sleep watching an episode of Below Deck and I have sworn on the teens head that I would not watch an episode without him. So since I am not able to know what Gary and Daisy have been up to lately (and it could be a lot, IYKYK) I had to find other pre-sleep distractions that didn’t involve anyone being murdered, so no crime documentaries. Again, I am solo parenting and can’t cope with the anxiety induced by obsessively checking if all the windows and doors are locked and if the alarm has really been turned on, just in case we become the subject of one of these documentaries.
So instead, a bit of 3 hrs dumb scrolling social media before bed has never hurt anyone, right? My preferred choice would have normally been Instagram or here, but last night for some reasons, it was like I knew all along I was going to witness history. And witness history I did.
I have to be honest: I didn’t believe it would happen for real.
We are talking about the country that can’t ban guns after too many mass shootings, so really banning an app that contributes to billions of dollars to the country? No way, José.
But it happened, for real and I don’t even know why I feel the need to discuss it.
It’s not like TikTok and I had a serious relationship anyway but I did take a screen shot to remind myself that my last post got almost 3,000 views, 125 likes, over 30 save and that I doubled my amount of followers from 54 to 102 in less than a month.
It simply felt important to acknowledge, and one day remember, how promising it once was.
I do have serious worries for the teens though. They will have to look up and discover a world they haven’t seen in such a long time. It might even physically hurt a little bit, I think their neck will be in serious need to exercise these muscles that hold their eyes at a straight up level.
So what are you up to today?
Personally I am going to cook, because that’s usually what I like doing on a freezing Sunday.
If you would like to know (and I know you do) I am going to make a Boeuf Carottes with biscuits and mash potatoes because we need some warm comforting food when the temperature hits a real feel of -22 C degrees. I might even bake because Sunday is a good day for cake and I have gym on Monday.
I’m also going to tackle this ridiculous assignment that’s been overdue for ages and now feels like an impossible beast to kill.
Today is the day. And I am telling you this right now, so that I feel guilty when I have to look at you and admit that I have instead sat down and binge watched Rivals all day and decided to have vol-au-vent for dinner instead.
Whatever you are doing, have a wonderful one. Speak soon!
Peggy x
What you might have missed this week
This really good article
And this Edit on Tissue Box Covers, because who isn’t sick at the moment?
