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Image description: A hand holding a phone takes a picture of a dish. With the growth of YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, a whole new form of food writing has emerged: that of the food influencer. From zero-waste soups, to sumptuous sweet treats, here are the Food and Drink editors’ top picks for food accounts to […]
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If you’ve spent any time on TikTok or Instagram in recent months, you may have come across a certain type of ‘haul’ post (where a person shows off or reviews a number of purchases to the camera) entitled “what I receive in a week as a micro influencer”. It may seem unusual that someone with […]
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Image description: A dish filled with cherry tomatoes and a block of feta cheese. If you have TikTok or Instagram, then the chances are that your feeds were inundated all February with videos of people oven roasting cherry tomatoes and feta cheese as part of the ‘Baked Feta Pasta’ trend. Claimed to have been so […]
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Image Description: Nupur Patel’s DPhil Diaries 5th week started off with a bang with the arrival of Valentine’s Day. Admittedly, on a normal year my boyfriend and I aren’t usually the grandest celebrators of the day. That’s not to say that we’re the cynical type, complaining about how ‘commercialised’ it all is (which is probably […]
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Image description: Close up of artist Jorja Smith on stage The coronavirus pandemic has imposed restrictions on almost every part of our lives, music videos have been no different. Artists’ responses to the problems caused by coronavirus have been as diverse as the genres they occupy. The results have also varied massively, some are gorgeous, […]
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Image description: a silhouette of a hand holds out a phone with the TikTok app open In my time writing for OxStu, I’ve written on a wide range of different issues. Typically, I have tended to avoid talking too much about myself, with the exception of discussing my relationship and my partner James. Talking about […]
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Image description: people performing TikTok dances It’s the quarantine hobby we were too ashamed to pick up, but are now too entangled in to give up. It’s the source of those catchy songs ingrained our subconscious, whether we truly know the words or not. It’s TikTok. Let’s be honest, you know the name by now, […]
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