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Some people are obsessed with Disney and Star Wars, but for others, they can’t get enough of the distinctive and beautiful style of Japanese animation, known as anime. Ever since more anime films and series were added to Netflix last spring – including acclaimed animation film company Studio Ghibli’s back catalogue – consumer searches for

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We’ve seen houses sold via TikTok, digital art, TikTok clips themselves being sold – is everything for sale these days? Well it would appear so, because Mackensie Newcomb is selling her wedding on TikTok. When the pandemic forced her to cancel her bougie Brooklyn bash in 2020, she immediately rebooked it for September 2021. But in the interim

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What do you do when half of your face is covered by a mask? Let your hands do the talking. COVID-19 has led to people moving away from lipstick to focus on bold eye looks, but now that’s extending to their nails for a complete head-to-fingers look. Neutrals, tortoiseshell, chromatic and ombré are out and

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We spent 40% of our waking hours watching TV over the first lockdown, and the habit hasn’t let up since. With so much extra spare time to pore over old and new content alike, the film corner of TikTok exploded into a subgenre to rival its reading counterpart, BookTok. Whether they’re casual watchers dropping their

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Let’s get The Hype House news out of the way – the original LA content house is now the subject of a Netflix reality TV show, in a case of TV imitating TikTok. Current members include Nikita Dragun, Larri Merritt, Chase Hudson and Sienna Mae Gomez. Expect bad behaviour, souped-up scandal and clickbaity content galore – listen to the CORQ team on

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ASMR has been an internet phenomenon for quite some time, with mukbangs, slime squeezing and gentle whispering being some of the most well-known types and devotees praising the sedative sensation for keeping them calm. However the past year of lockdowns has created a sharp rise in popularity as consumers seek to destress, and in 2020

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After a year of hiding away at home in co-ord tracksuits and bare faces, an all encompassing trend has emerged to blow the cobwebs out of everyone’s lockdown lives. Enter: maximalism. Consisting of funky patterns, saturated colours, statement pieces and clashing prints, it is the opposite of minimalism and is all about being loud and

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Cara Delevingne has joined TikTok – well, technically she joined in February but is only just leaning into the platform this week. You’ll remember that Delevingne was one of the first of the Insta models – the supermodels who used their Instagram profiles to reflect their personalities and gain huge followings and klout off the catwalk.

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Ghouls, ghosts and grotesque beings are normally themes associated with Autumn and Halloween, where every shop window and house porch is festooned with pumpkins and locals adorn their best spooky apparel. But when BBC Sounds released its series, The Battersea Poltergeist, at the end of March, producers shunned this tradition with their blend of documentary

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As most aspects of our lives shift increasingly towards digital-first, some are taking the development even further – to digital-only. These options now exist for content creators, fashion products, financial services, collectibles and art. It is not long since the idea of digital-only banks were unimaginable, and now we have the likes of Monzo, Starling

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It’s been a bad week for our childhoods as one creator, Pea Kay, revealed in a video that the Macarena was not the novelty school disco song we all thought it was but actually about a woman who had a threesome with her partner’s friends after he joined the army. And with that bombshell out of the way, our TikTok

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Korea has dominated the skincare game for a long time, and for good reason. The K-beauty industry is constantly setting new trends across the globe. You can trace back the origins of daily staples such as sheet masks, CC creams and jelly products to its innovative solutions to creating the ultimate glow. A lot of this

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