The biggest tech & social media trends on the internet from January 29th, 2025.

Timestamps:

1:32 Tumblr launches TumblrTV

4:46 TikTok US sale update

7:08 Cute winter boots TikTok trend

9:54 Breakdown of DeepSeek

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Sources:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/06/25/tumblr-launches-tumblr-tv-a-gif-search-engine-with-a-full-screen-viewing-mode/ 

https://support.tumblr.com/post/773329598987616256 

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-tumblr-became-popular-for-being-obsolete 

https://www.fastcompany.com/91267850/cute-winter-boots-tiktok-trend-meaning 

https://www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-cute-winter-boots-meaning-explained-algospeak 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/25/bytedance-shut-down-tiktok-than-sell 

https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/perplexity-ai-revises-tiktok-merger-proposal-that-could-give-us-government-50-2025-01-26/  

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/26/perplexity-tiktok-revised-merger-proposal.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/us/politics/tiktok-ban-sale-china.html 

https://www.9news.com.au/technology/new-bid-for-tiktok-from-perplexity-ai-could-give-us-government-50-stake/a8fe6d0d-6057-4d2a-8fa0-8e23fefd8155 

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/big-tech-faces-heat-chinas-deepseek-sows-doubts-billion-dollar-spending-2025-01-27/ 

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ceo-sam-altman-the-age-of-giant-ai-models-is-already-over/ 

https://www.fastcompany.com/91267354/deepseek-explained-china-llm-chatgpt-nvidia-microsoft-stock-ai-rattled?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-is-deepseek-why-is-it-disrupting-ai-sector-2025-01-27/ 

https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-ai-guys-were-lying-the-whole-time