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TikTok has been in overdrive the past few days, and if you want the inside track on everything from boardrooms to bedroom dances, here’s how the story is playing out. Kicking off with business headlines, TikTok is making a massive push into e-commerce as the holiday season peaks. According to Digiday, the platform is incentivizing US sellers with cash, ad credits, and fully-funded deals to boost TikTok Shop spending through Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The incentives seem to be working—internal data shows TikTok Shop raked in more than 100 million sales for BFCM, with views on #TikTokShopBlackFriday exceeding four billion, and small businesses especially reaping the benefits. Social Media Today echoes that TikTok’s e-commerce ambitions are modeled on Douyin’s runaway success in China, though Western consumers are just starting to warm up to in-stream shopping. If TikTok’s sales trajectory keeps this pace, it could permanently cement the platform as a retail heavyweight.

But it’s not all shopping sprees and affiliate deals. The past few days have seen TikTok’s CEO, Shou Zi Chew, turn into a high-profile fixture in American political life. Daily Mail and ChannelNewsAsia both report Shou Zi Chew attending President Donald Trump’s latest inauguration in Washington, rubbing elbows with tech elites and former presidents alike. This appearance is headline news considering TikTok’s complicated relationship with US regulators. AOL confirms Chew will be seated with major tech executives at the event, though TikTok has not commented on how the new administration might affect its US operations. Meanwhile, LAist is running with the story that Trump has given formal approval to a deal letting mostly US investors take over TikTok’s US arm, a move seen as easing political tensions that once put TikTok perilously close to being banned.

Public scrutiny hasn’t let up either. Instagram reels from Al Jazeera English and brain_p0wer are still circulating clips of Shou Zi Chew’s congressional grilling over data privacy and alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Chew, resolutely Singaporean, publicly reiterated during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he has “no association with the Chinese Communist Party,” a fact various outlets have emphasized in the face of ongoing speculation.

On the ground, TikTok remains a creative circus with viral trends everywhere. According to NewEngen, November’s highlights have been laugh-out-loud visual gags—think creators pretending to have only one tooth, Nutella-branded dancing squirrel puppets, and the “She’s Always MIA” self-roast carousel. There’s also a surge in “silent dance” clips, with users letting TikTok’s AI pick the music post-recording: an embrace of platform chaos that only TikTok could birth. Meanwhile, emotional content is soaring, with carousel posts chronicling hopes dashed in 2025 and the trending “Bird Theory” for decoding relationship vibes in tiny gestures.

And the red carpet moment everyone wanted: the TikTok Awards 2025. TikTok’s official newsroom reports the launch of “a new era” for the awards celebration, with a star-studded event streamed globally and buzzy recaps on YouTube. In sum, as political drama and retail transformation swirl at the top, TikTok’s cultural pulse is as vivid as ever, fusing business, government, and everyday absurdity into a stream that never seems to end.

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