The “Leave Me Alone” TikTok trend was born after Hailey Bieber posted a video begging haters to stop harassing her. Here’s how TikTokers turned the audio into a viral trend.
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Freshman year was going to mean sleepovers, new friends, and independence. The coronavirus changed all that.
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COVID-19 has destroyed the sanctuary of my multigenerational household. At 3 a.m., on a Thursday in December, my grandmother died in a New Orleans hospice from the coronavirus, six days after she had tested positive.
I am only 14, and this is my first time experiencing loss. Every day, I struggle with her death. Sometimes I pretend I can see her, with her dyed red hair that was graying at the roots. I want to feel like she’s still with me. Some days, she would hold my hand as we danced to all kinds of music in her kitchen. Other times, she’d greet me with “Hey, girl” when I walked through the door, as if she had the greatest tea of the day to spill. I know my Grandy, also named Clementine Victoria Baptiste Cager, would never have wanted to leave this Earth like a withering sunflower. Just to go to the bank, she would w
very good job in tennessee. i m sure taylor swift doesn t know anything about her. let s just say i like taylor s music about 25% less now, okay? obviously taylor swift s words made a lot of republicans very angry. it seemed like president trump revels in having celebrity drama. this cultural moment that you re talking about, the cultural war that republicans have loved to sort of wage, whether it was around abortion or gay marriage, now it seems to be obviously around gender. and donald trump, this idea that men are somehow the victim in all of this, this is something he used a lot during the 2016 campaign and it cost him a lot of female votes, right? he obviously won with white women, but produced the largest gender gap in american history. in the upcoming midterms,