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Rudy turns to TikTok to find out why they stopped playing sports

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Success in badminton runs through the family of Rudy Jean Rigg. Rudy—who is transgender, non-binary and uses the pronouns they/he—is excellent even reaching state level. Rudy’s grandmother, Jean Tyrrel, is believed to have started Australia’s first badminton school. “It kind of started, like most things, rather informally,” they said. Their mother, Michelle Rigg, was a three-time junior national champion and later junior national coach. And their sister? Junior national doubles champion. While Melbourne-based Rudy used to play the sport, they don’t anymore. “No, I haven’t really played but I want to get back to playing,” they said. The reasons why are being explored in Rudy’s TikTok documentary series, Transathletica, which looks at the unique barriers transgender and gender-diverse people face to participate in sports. Journalist Narelda Jacobs said Sydney WorldPride 2023 would be a “tremendous opportunity”. ( Provided: Jaimi Joy ) “I felt if I confirmed my gender in any obvious way

Delivery driver Mark Polchleb Doordash: 'stay away from door friends!', apologizes on TikTok

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In an awkward moment, the hungry man scares a delivery worker who yells at his dog to ‘stay away from the door’ – and then is so annoyed by the guilt that he sets out on a quest to track him down. TikTok of Melbourne man telling delivery man ‘stay out of door’ goes viral Mark Polchleb was horrified after seeing the vision and started tracking it Delivery driver Sami Obeid is tracked down in a truly heartwarming video Delivery service DoorDash thanks Sami for his service with a raise By Ben Talintyre For The Australian Daily Published: 02:59 EDT, 13 July 2022 | Updated: 03:40 EDT, 13 July 2022 An Aussie who accidentally shouted at the delivery driver – when in fact he was shouting at his dog – has tracked him down to apologize personally. Last week, hungry Melbourne man Mark Polchleb posted a video showing CCTV footage of a misunderstanding he had with his DoorDash driver. The footage shows the delivery driver bringing

Forget open mic nights, TikTok is where aspiring comedians try to make it

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“We want to be full-time comedians and quit our day jobs,” Says said. There is no denying that TikTok has cemented its position as a “funny” app – the comedy hashtag alone has over 1645 billion views, and the most followed person on the platform is Senegal-born comedian Khabane Lame (146 million). More than 7 million Australians now use the app, and Australian comedians such as Tom Cashman (@tom.cashman, 158,000), Jeremy Franco (@jezbreezy, 274,000) and Lizzy Hoo (@lizzyhoo 23,800) also have huge followers. While it seems TikTok loves comedy, the lack of transparency around its algorithms makes it difficult to know what factors have the most impact. The algorithm has been criticized by users and creators alike – in 2020, black content creators called the app “racial bias”, which viewed videos with the hashtags #BlackLivesMatter and #GeorgeFloyd unwatched, which TikTok later apologized for. Swag on the Beat says that despite many attempts to recreate viral content, they still haven’t f