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Gen Z Found Their New Food Critic on The Viral List

Pinterest’s degrees of separation, Mullet “Reviews” Chinese buffets, and Gen Z’s six-month check-ins are all going viral…

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KEY TAKEAWAYS
  • TikTok creator “Mullet Review” has built a following by reviewing Midwest Chinese buffets
  • TikTok users made a game of trying to connect unrelated objects to their fave celebs on Pinterest
  • It’s been “six months since April,” and Gen Z is sharing their personal updates and transformations
This creator is building a fandom one Chinese buffet at a time   Brandon Elliot, better known as Mullet Review (@mulletreview), is a blond-mullet-wearing, occasionally barefoot mail carrier turned unofficial food critic on TikTok (with 1.4M followers). He’s on a self-imposed mission to find the best Chinese buffets, until he “gets food poisoning,” and he’s not letting a restaurant’s low Google rating or a string of bad Yelp reviews stop him. While Elliot has been posting food reviews for a while, his platform really took off with this ongoing series. It began in May, when he visited Ginza Buffet in...

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