{"id":220113,"date":"2026-02-01T09:23:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/tiktok-roundup-young-hos-nihilistic-penguins-and-booktok-snobbery\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:23:27","slug":"tiktok-roundup-young-hos-nihilistic-penguins-and-booktok-snobbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/tiktok-roundup-young-hos-nihilistic-penguins-and-booktok-snobbery\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Roundup: Young Hos, Nihilistic Penguins, and BookTok Snobbery"},"content":{"rendered":"


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  • Now that TikTok is under partial ownership of Oracle, many viewers say that certain videos and topics are being censored, including ICE, Israel, and Jeffrey Epstein. Several popular creators have pointed out that their videos mysteriously show zero views. And users say that their for-you pages are recycling old content and topics. (Also, many people seem to be getting these random-ass, low-budget skits<\/a> on their FYPs?) Commenters across the platform have been saying that blocking Oracle’s TikTok account will free them from the company’s oversight and fix their personal algorithms, which is not true.<\/li>\n
  • A skiier in China was mauled by a snow leopard<\/a> after she approached it to take a selfie. It is the first snow leopard attack against a human in known history. Although…the selfie is kind of great? She actually managed to get the picture riiiiight as the leopard was preparing to rip off her face.\n

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  • BookTok this week remains aflame with the fire of anti-intellectualism vs. anti-elitism<\/a> debates! Fans of commercial fiction popular on TikTok — for example, romantasy, thrillers, and spicy sex books — are at war with fans of literary fiction. The literary fiction fans decry the commercial genres as poorly written pap. The defenders of TikTok-trendy books say that this is elitism. The literary side says that the dearth of literary fiction is anti-intellectualism. Who is right?! Which side do you fall on?!<\/li>\n
  • Are you just a lone penguin, relentlessly treading away from your colony, trekking through a vast and frozen wasteland to a mountain lying untold leagues in the distance? If you are, then you are just one of several million TikTokers who relate to a viral clip from the film Encounters at the End of the World<\/i>, narrated by Werner Herzog, in which a penguin abandons his colony to waddle toward the mountains in the distance.\n