nik

we are more alike than unalike

[nik @NikkiNotNiki]

Big difference between loving someone and being IN love with someone

[Dawn @_dawnmontgomery]

Him winding up 🥹

[x @elroy__preston]

His television shows are basically Tyler Perry for street niggas

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

He raped a girl so brutally that her tampon had to be surgically removed. You have a daughter @jimmyfallon what the fuck is wrong with you. It is insane to me that this man has continued to be platformed and praised despite what he did.

To all the men who continue to kiss his ass, what if that was your daughter, sister, girlfriend, wife, or mother? What would you want to happen to the man who was responsible? How would you feel if the majority of people brushed off what happened and gave the man responsible millions of dollars and fame? Explain to me why he is allowed to live life as a free man after what he did.

[Nick | ❤️❤️ @EnjoyMissJanet]

or support the actual black woman they’re all inspired by..

[bunny sanders @whatbunnysaid]

Tristan kissed her without her consent and admitted to doing so. Outside of that Khloe has been notorious for dating her friends bf’s behind them AND she went back to Tristan after the kkkardashians failed character assignation on Jordyn just for him to have a baby on her. And she’s still on her podcast today gloating about being “the one that got away”, because she loves that position not realizing she’s a fool. All of these events are on 4K tape mind you. No rewriting of history. Tristan said it was all his fault. And Kimora Lee your stupid ass still on thin ice w me for involving yourself in that, clown

[nik @NikkiNotNiki]

Is it Saturday? I’m turning on cartoons

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

It’s 1995. You wake up. There’s no Wi-Fi. You don’t have a cell phone. You don’t have a computer. There is no Facebook/Instagram/TikTok 

What is the first thing that you do?

[Stanley Graps @stanleygraps]

"My mom was r**** at 11 years old and had me at 12."

WWE's Titus O'Neil explains his decision to get a vasectomy was shaped by the trauma he experienced in his family’s past.

Absolutely heartbreaking.

[Ijeoma Umebinyuo @ijeomaumebinyuo]

This is what happens when you hire actual creative people.

[Chris Williamson @CWilliamson44]

I remember that day so vividly. I wanted them get back in the car so quickly 🥹🥹🥹

[Mario @yeatmario]

He clearly said “don’t ever put your hands on me again” and he did it again to provoke him into a moment. YUCK.

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

His victim had to have her tampon surgically removed.

[Iyke @currentiyke]

The bar is no longer in high, it's in heaven😬😬

[ERIC LAMONT @BlameEricLamont]

Mind you, Monica did this with no warm up or rehearsal. Just a mic and that voice.

[spicebae @spicebae_]

y'all were overly judgmental here, this sounds like a breath of fresh air 😩

[Max Berlinger @Berlinger]

i used to fear mamdani was too young to oversee a city like new york and now i realize our politicians should ... have energy? and stamina?

[Torraine Walker @TorraineWalker]

Label craziness and goon mentality robbed hip-hop of one of it's greatest lyricists. Shorty was going toe-to-toe on the mic with Snoop, Daz, Kurupt and RBX on them features and was killing them.

[Viewside Björk 🎨 @OverdozeOnDEEZ]

He was Courtside when The Knicks only won 10 games, he’s one of the only Celebs who pays for their Knicks tickets because him & Dolan hate each other, he doesn’t even use The Celebrity entrance at MSG

Spike Lee’s love for The Knicks is the purest thing in this world, he deserves

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This father was on a road trip with his two young daughters & they needed to go to the restroom so he stopped at a QT & took them in the women’s restroom since no one was in it & a man came yelling at him to get out & called the cops.The girls were crying & then he assaulted him.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.