Metro Detroit Tik Tok influencer on track to 3 million followers
โItโs really cool to see people interested in my personality and tying it in with the station.โIn an effort to involve his newfound Tik Tok audience, Brubaker asks viewers to suggest random words for him to incorporate live on-air. Coined as the โRandom-Word-Game,โ some of his more challenging words have been โWorcestershireโ and โalakazam.โโIโm definitely not the first person who has thrown random words on the radio,โ he laughed. After bumping into the school at a college fair, he aspired to enter the world of television or sports play-by-play. โMy experience in Detroit radio has catapulted me into the next chapter of my career and the exposure Tik Tok has provided me is life-changing,โ he said. โItโs cool to be able to have those conversations.โTo follow Bruโs journey on Tik Tok, Instagram, and to see whatโs โBru-ingโ on Twitter, follow his handle @bruontheradio.
8-year-old girl in Roseville hospitalized after imitating viral magic trick
ROSEVILLE, Mich. โ A father in Roseville want parents to be vigilant after his 8-year-old daughter was hospitalized trying to imitate something she saw on TikTok. Doctors said they had never seen anything like it when Dhakota was brought in after swallowing a quarter. The video was a magic trick that included a die. โI didnโt know how bad the situation was until they brought the x-ray back and I saw the quarter right there in her esophagus. โI couldโve lost my kid.โDhakota is out of the hospital and is still a little sore.
Microsoft says its bid to buy TikTok has been rejected
The government worries about user data being funneled to Chinese authorities. TikTok denies it is a national-security risk and is suing to stop the administration from the threatened ban. Walmart had planned to partner with Microsoft on the deal. Itโs not clear if Walmart is still interested. TikTok didnโt immediately return requests for comment Sunday.
Workers fired from Michigan Wendyโs after video shows employee bathing in kitchen sink
GREENVILLE, Mich. โ Several workers were fired from a Michigan Wendyโs after a video posted online showed an employee bathing in a kitchen sink. The video shows a worker in a sink full of water and soap at the Wendyโs on N. Lafayette Street in Greenville. Another person walks by and talks to the employee who is in the sink as someone else records the incident for the social media video app Tik Tok. Below is the statement:โThis egregious behavior is completely unacceptable and counter to our safety, training and operational standards. Upon learning of this situation, all employees in the video were terminated immediately and the restaurant has been completely sanitized.
Teens of TikTok take on school shootings
Recently it has become a platform where some students are turning to share their anxiety surrounding school shootings, but in Gen Z fashion. The teens of TikTok have taken on wealth inequality, climate change and the mercurial attentions of a slacktivist public. Now, with a series of brutal, darkly funny memes, they've turned a narrowed eye toward school shootings. For months following the attack, high school students around the country mobilized to call for more meaningful ways to address gun violence. To these bizarre, funny, creative TikTok teens, the joke isn't that school shootings happen.