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Florence's iconic Uffizi art gallery has got over one million likes on video-sharing social media platform TikTok, the Florentine gallery said Wednesday. A video of a three-day visit by British singer-songwriter Dua Lipa pushed the Uffizi over the threshold, it said. Furthermore, with over 116,700 TikTok followers, the Uffizi is by far the most fol...

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If you're on TikTok, you've probably seen the antics of two young Italian musicians while scrolling down your For You page. Those two are known on the app as Lionfeld Music, and their names are Emiliano and Matteo. They are absolutely dominating the app, making great jokes and music, all while destroying toxic stereotypes about Italy. Now with over...

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He’s the cuisine cugine. Meet Danny Mondello, the Rossville, Staten Island, native behind the wildly popular TikTok account “Meals_by_cug.” Cug is short for cugine, which means “cousin” in Italian, but is also a colloquial term used to describe an Italian-American. “When I made this page, it was a persona. Cug isn’t Danny,” Mondello, 24, told The P...

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Antonio Nigro, 24, of Edison, N.J., had no idea he would make his grandmother into a social media sensation simply by videotaping her doing what she loves to do. It all started in January 2020. Pia Quaglieri, now 83 years old, was sitting in the kitchen getting ready for a trip to the supermarket. As his Nonna (pronounced NO-nna, Italian for grandm...

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Ciao from Rome!   Dear friends, I would like to inform you that the audio version of We the ItaliaNews, the podcast born two years ago and which is now a real news broadcast followed on various platforms and social media by more than 1000 followers for each episode, is also on Spotify. Every Monday and Thursday there is a new episode, which tells y...

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Tommy Guarino had a stereotypical Boston upbringing, and he’s fully embraced all of it. Not out of pride, per se, but rather as a matter of creative inspiration. Hailing from East Boston, the 22-year old Guarino still lives in the same triple-decker house that his grandmother bought back in the ‘70s, and when it comes to tradition and idiosyncrasie...

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Elderly women at a daycare centre in Italy have been engaging with youngsters on social media platform TikTok in a bid to fight off depression and loneliness. Until now, terms such as "followers", "likes", "influencers" -- common on social media -- wouldn't have meant anything to the women at the centre in Capri, near Modena in northern Italy.

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Charli and Dixie D’Amelio are making tens of millions of dollars – according to a compilation by Forbes of the highest-earning TikTokers of 2021. The sisters earned a combined $27.5 million in 2021, according to Forbes, roughly quadruple the $7 million that they raked in in 2020. To compile its list, Forbes estimated pretax earnings of stars whose...

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You either love or hate this Christmas song, and you'll definitely want to see the hilarious reaction a viral TikTokker had to it. @thepasinis on TikTok are an adorable husband and wife named Jessi and Alessio. Alessio is Italian, and Jessi often "pranks" him or tapes his reaction to Italian American traditions. One time, Jessi gave Alessio Chef Bo...

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Khaby Lame is a 21 years old Italian guy of. Well, he was born in Senegal, and despite the fact he has lived in Italy most of his life, that he speaks Italian, that he gesticulates as an Italian, he hasn’t received any Italian passport yet, because of a law we hope will son change. But he is Italian, despite any passport. He grew up in the small to...

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