TikTok users took to the app to poke fun at the notion of aliens invading Earth. Below, some of our favorites Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three ...

A still from a TikTok video released by @thegtapurps, a TikTok account that promotes the Purple Alien gang, a group of "Grand Theft Auto Online" players that have also stormed onto the social media ...

Don’t trust anything on the internet — until Mashable tries it first. Welcome to the Hype Test, where we review viral trends and tell you what's really worth millions of likes. Don’t trust anything on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rachel, Nevada, the home of the 'Extraterrestrial Highway' that leads to Area 51. MyLoupe/UIG Via Getty Images) Videos showing ...

Across TikTok, Pou serves as an outlet for people’s feelings of loneliness, anxiety, and depression—and as a funny prop. The hashtag has amassed over five billion views, and made the alien Pou ...

On TikTok, dancers are performing to the song ‘Liberian Girl’ by Michael Jackson with majorette moves—here’s how the trend started, and went viral.

Black TikTok creators are "striking" in an effort to gain recognition for choreographing dance trends that have been co-opted by white creators, furthering the debate over cultural appropriation ...

A viral TikTok supposedly shows the government conducting surveillance on a man who says he has proof that aliens live among us. The TikToker, Brian Daniel, whose handle is @briandaniel1, has posted ...

A viral campaign aims to draw attention to the ways social platforms compensate users. By Taylor Lorenz and Laura Zornosa In a TikTok video from June 18, Erick Louis, a 21-year-old content creator and ...

During my time at home during the winter holidays, between wrapping presents and complaining about the lack of potato chips at my dad’s house, I did what I can only assume millions, if not billions, ...

During this socially distanced and extremely online time, TikTok has emerged as the uncontested social media platform of the moment—and thus TikTok dance challenges, long the domain of Gen Z, have ...

Things came to a head when Megan Thee Stallion announced she was releasing a new song, “Thot Shit.” Her songs “Savage” and “Captain Hook” had spawned viral dance crazes that were copied and mimicked ...