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If you feel a teeny, tiny pair of claws tugging on your hair tonight, willing you to buy a ticket for Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical, don’t try to fight the will of your rodent pilot. First of all, having a talented rat take the reins of your life for a…

In August of 2020 a tiny TikTok song dedicated to Remy the Rat (the animated star of the 2007 Pixar film “Ratatouille”) sparked a musical metamorphosis. Within days, theater kid TikTok was all asking the same question, “What if there was a ‘Ratatouille’ musical?” The social media app was awash…

"I am thrilled that we’ve begun the New Year with this seismic event that is clearly providing so much joy. Our gratitude goes to the producers, creators, performers and everyone in the TikTok community who came together so quickly to make it all happen so wonderfully," Joseph P. Benincasa, president and CEO of The Actors Fund, said…

Say what you will about TikTok, and the obsession your younger siblings (and let’s be honest, you) have with it, but if nothing else, it has proven that it is a platform that can transform lives overnight. This is no more evident than in the case of DOGBRETH, when a…

André De Shields, at work on Rataouille: The TikTok Musical. Photo: Emily Marshall On Friday, the impossible happens. On the first day of 2021, we will all finally get to see a new (sort of) Broadway (certainly not) show! The shutdown is keeping stages dark, but your computer screen can…

Kenyon Lee, who runs the TikTok account @kentai.haven, has an uncanny knack for guessing people's heights with a little bit of internet sleuthing and a whole lot of math.He's amassed 2.5 million followers in four weeks.One day, he hopes to outline his process in an academic research paper.Don't even try…

A woman in Nashville is going viral for being Taylor Swift's doppelgänger.The woman, Ashley, is a nurse, and says she regularly gets mistaken for Taylor. The IRL Taylor just released a new album, Folklore. Taylor Swift has a distinct look going for her—a blunt bob, red lip kind of thing.…

In the final days of 2020, very few people can look back and say they’ve had a good time. (Dua Lipa, maybe... or soap wholesalers). One member of that fairly selective club is Nathan Apodaca, the TikToker known as @420doggface208 or just doggface208, who shot to viral fame over a…

Hi! Welcome to the Insider Advertising daily for December 31. I'm Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Send me feedback or tips at ljohnson@businessinsider.com For today's newsletter, the last of the year, we're recapping the year's…

Amid my soothing stream of Starbucks order hacks and Target hauls (I’m temporarily in the suburbs in Texas, and the TikTok algorithm has not only figured me out, but may actually be leading me to a new personality), I recently noticed a curious new trend in skincare: washing one’s face…