Conservatives are too obsessed with TikTok

This week, social media site X once again managed to raise uproar over a TikTok video, this time featuring  “Dinks”, an acronym for dual-income, no-kids couples. While the video comes across as obnoxious, and rightly so, there’s a key aspect that X users overlooked — the couple at the centre of it wasn’t serious. They were joking. 

As it turns out, it was just one of several memes posted to TikTok, a joke format in the spirit of the once-popular “Shit People Say” videos, which at the beginning of the last...