If you want to post mac’n cheese on TikTok, your skin better be as thick as your casserole dish. That’s what Tineke "Tini" Younger learned in 2023 when she shared a three-minute video of her roux-soaked mac recipe. While the video went viral – today it has 101 million views and 9.6 million likes – the comments came in hot as smoked paprika. Some users called the recipe overhyped, and others accused Tini of cultural appropriation. In an interview for The Mashable 101 – our list of genre-breaking content creators, influencers, and culture shapers – Tini tells us "That recipe took me four years to perfect…" “If you go on my TikTok, and if you go all the way down to like 2021 and 2022, I'm making different variations of that mac 'n cheese. I'm experimenting and [asking my then-boyfriend] Antoine, 'Is this the best mac 'n cheese you've ever had?' And he's like, 'not yet.'" She worked on the recipe until she got "Antoine's approval" as the best mac 'n cheese he'd ever had — creamy, cheesy, n...