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What Happens When TikTok’s Trend Machine Shuts Down?

Facing a looming ban, brands and creators must contemplate the internet without its most important cultural production engine.
A collage of trending TikTok creators, products and content, from Nara Smith's cooking videos to Leo Woodall's Loewe SS25 pre-collection campaign.
What happens on TikTok doesn’t stay there. Instead the app has become something of an assignment editor for the internet at large. (BoF Team)

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