## In times of sweeping change, clarity matters most. There’s too much news. We help you understand what you really need to know. Vox delivers the depth, context, and clarity you need to understand what’s happening and why it matters. We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. **Will you support our work and become a Vox Member today?** When I asked Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan — the hosts of the [*I’ve Had It*](https://ivehaditpodcast.com/), a podcast about best friends who complain — if they’ve ever complained about each other, they said, with 100 percent certainty and almost in unison, that they absolutely did. “I love Pumps more than anything on the planet. I’d give her a kidney, and maybe another organ on a good day,” Welch told me. “But another day I could say, ‘I hate her guts and she’s driving me crazy.’” Pumps added, “If you’re being completely honest with yourself, everybody has talked about everybody at some point in their life.” I then asked them how they would feel if someone overheard and posted those conversations online — a real trend that’s happening recently on [TikTok](https://www.vox.com/tiktok). “Total bullshit,” Pumps said. “That is such chickenshit, Alex,” Welch added. Like it so often does, TikTok has figured out a way to siphon the joy away from something crucial. This time, it’s complaining and gossiping about your friends. The social media platform that has emboldened regular people to turn into front-facing-camera personalities has spurred some of these characters to eavesdrop and then snitch on random gossipers. These TikTokers are something like vigilantes on a mission. to continue reading.