https://www.tiktok.com/@rickastleyofficial/video/6890858524092402946
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 November 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
i almost clicked on that
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 9 November 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
amazinghttps://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21559677/tiktok-cfius-court-petition-ban-deadline
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 12 November 2020 23:08 (three years ago) link
I’ve been laughing at this TikTok for 24 hours. pic.twitter.com/ZTN5qBwEGo— T. Kyle 🏳️🌈 (@tkylemac) November 20, 2020
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 November 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
(that woman has some severe apnea issues i think)
https://www.tiktok.com/@collroy/video/6887045734991023366
― reggae kraftwerk (||||||||), Monday, 23 November 2020 10:24 (three years ago) link
Somewhat related: It also looks like Epic records is paying tik tokkers to use old songs in hopes that a viral sound will lead to a boost in back catalog streaming. via @colinphl https://t.co/s6HV9hxzc7 pic.twitter.com/6aemUBKIb4— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) December 4, 2020
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 December 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link
Coming up with a way to make people lip syncing even worse - bravo!
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Friday, 4 December 2020 17:16 (three years ago) link
lol, that is a fucking sin
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
can't stop watching this
I think this is the best edited Tik Tok I’ve ever seen. pic.twitter.com/OUCqiBKkSK— Kristi Anderson (@CinderSlays) January 9, 2021
― Roz, Monday, 11 January 2021 05:15 (three years ago) link
wtf that makes mj's black and white seem amateurish
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 January 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
similar in the comments
This guy too pic.twitter.com/gzgncyu5o6— n0 name (@mrnonamerod) January 10, 2021
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 January 2021 05:32 (three years ago) link
^nice
tiktoks that are almost definitely terrifying to watch while high:
"wow these edibles are shit" pic.twitter.com/JT5Z7PALC7— 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖆 ✣ 𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖉 ⬜⬜🟥🟥⬜⬜👽 (@VPestilenZ) December 16, 2020
(@connection_intercepted)
― ridingstarbassxd (unregistered), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:43 (three years ago) link
awesome
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:57 (three years ago) link
amazing
I just watched the sea shanty, done with the four lads originally from a photo. Not only is it some dope work, the shanty is catchy as hell.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:17 (three years ago) link
the shanty is horrifically catchy and satisfying to listen to but it's been haunting my dreams
― Specific Ocean Blue (dog latin), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:18 (three years ago) link
oh, can't wait for that tonight then
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:19 (three years ago) link
gonna post it anyway
Sea shanty tiktok is WILD pic.twitter.com/rjY1iXFQkA— Kristian 🇳🇱 (@vonstrenginho) January 14, 2021
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 12:04 (three years ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@overloadcomedy/video/6920289799702203650
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 January 2021 01:30 (three years ago) link
A little weirded out by how weirded out the kids are by their non-mirrored faces.
― pplains, Thursday, 11 February 2021 03:43 (three years ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@maelynesque/video/6910768593911221509?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1
― pplains, Thursday, 11 February 2021 03:45 (three years ago) link
?eah, ?eah, ?eah, I left that extra part in post haste.
No one is doing TikTok like him pic.twitter.com/TpjcGovjKX— Kalhan (@KalhanR) March 18, 2021
― G.A.G.S. (Gophers Against Getting Stuffed) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 19 March 2021 18:55 (three years ago) link
i like the sea shanty video.
however.
the platform is mostly dystopian, as are the instagram "reels." most videos are autobiographical and self-commodifying -- people commenting on their personal life, their relationships, etc, but in a way that burnishes a curated image. so far so predictable. sometimes they are selling a product or have a cashapp in their bio or whatever.
what's weird is the way the users do so, usually recreating some kind of popular meme. they turn themselves not just into a commodity, but into a very dumb meme. and they draw their pets and family members into it. like they're all cartoon people, living out a slapstick existence. the most terrifying of these videos involve that robot-voice narration.
― treeship., Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
it's like, if adorno wrote a dystopian novel, this would be what people were doing all day in his version of 2021.
― treeship., Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:38 (three years ago) link
i've got a video for you treeship
https://www.tiktok.com/@geezyunit/video/6947387987659443461
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:40 (three years ago) link
ok, that's pretty good.
― treeship., Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link
my usually social media-illiterate became obsessed with tiktok over the past year and now i can't send videos of my cats to the family gc for fear that she'll turn them into videos with stuff dubbed over them. she's getting to a point where she sees everything as fodder and she's addicted to getting views. she and my dad keep guilting me and my brother for not liking her videos and we keep having to explain that you need to have an account to do that
― ✖, Monday, 24 May 2021 04:24 (two years ago) link
social media-illiterate MOM**** became etc
am also about 90% certain that she's going to end up in a cult as she's already shown an inclination towards some of the culty new age grifters - she was already prone to that stuff before stepping into a social media platform that shoves it in her face
― ✖, Monday, 24 May 2021 04:30 (two years ago) link
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdqJj29q/
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 July 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
I’m not interested in your hot takes about Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/djBOCs1pR2— Patrick J Loller (@PatrickLoller) August 16, 2021
this cadence is like having a needle shoved into your eardrum repeatedly
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 01:00 (two years ago) link
tiktok is where you get to listen to the world's most obnoxious twitter accounts recite their tweets in the exact cadence you always imagined they would use
― ✖, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 01:37 (two years ago) link
Not sure why the perpetrator of that TikTok thought that adopting the persona of Howdy Doody would lend credence to his views about foreign policy and military interventionism.
― it is to laugh, like so, ha! (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 August 2021 03:26 (two years ago) link
More of this, less of blandly attractive people lip syncing
https://www.tiktok.com/@hendersizzle/video/7001618935770615045
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 01:18 (two years ago) link
im on this now, and i am single-handedly saving it from itself
― class project pat (m bison), Tuesday, 31 August 2021 01:22 (two years ago) link
Okay, a buddy's kid was recently caught (or involved with) ripping a soap dispenser off the wall in the school bathroom (he denies having anything to do with it). I thought it was sort of an odd, kind of old-fashioned form of juvenile delinquency, something you might see in a 1981 after school special, or Seven Green Bottles.
But no, it's a tiktok challenge! And it's sweeping the nation: ...the goal of a new trend, the "Deviant Licks" TikTok challenge, is to either damage school property or steal items and post videos of it online in an attempt to go viral.
This includes vandalizing bathrooms, cutting up books, etc.
Sorry if I'm the last person on the planet to know about this.. I feel old
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 25 October 2021 23:07 (two years ago) link
Furthermore, I question the wisdom of posting evidence of these crimes online, but what do I know
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 25 October 2021 23:11 (two years ago) link
be gaydo crimespost about themonline
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 25 October 2021 23:13 (two years ago) link
Do you see the perpetrator?Yeah I’m right here.
― treeship., Monday, 25 October 2021 23:15 (two years ago) link
this is pretty good: In the video, the voice over the intercom said they don’t have the resources to call each of their parents to tell them what’s been happening, so the “only recourse they have” is to remove the doors from the hinges in both the girls’ and boys’ bathrooms.
My worst possible nightmare as a kid
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 25 October 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
lol Andy i don’t know where that’s from but the whole thing sounds like a pretty elaborate wind-upeven if it’s true, if it wasn’t tiktok kids would find other reasons to be idiots. i think you were right at the beginning: it’s a tale as old as time. i have a 12-yo who’s a bit of an idiot and even he would know that doing this kind of thing for the likes is moronic
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 08:34 (two years ago) link
No, it's a thing. It's called "devious licks," and it started with just swiping random things from school, like boxes of masks, and displaying them on TikTok. Vandalizing bathrooms was September's "challenge" so we did have a lot of people trashing the bathrooms at my school. My guess is it's fading out now, though, because the next set of challenges issued involved actual physical assault and most kids aren't dumb enough to slap their teachers and put it on TikTok.
― Lily Dale, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 12:19 (two years ago) link
Lily and Andy are right, but so is Tracer. If it wasn't #deviouslicks, there'd be another excuse.
― pplains, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 15:29 (two years ago) link
Yes, school vandalism is as old of time; but voluntarily posting incriminating evidence online seems purely 21st Century.
Apparently tiktok has started pulling all the videos anyway, which may help explain why the phenomenon is fading
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 October 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
if it's a no bones day, i vandalize a junior high restroom
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 28 October 2021 23:26 (two years ago) link
The rabbit hole of this one user claiming Ancient Rome did not exist and all the answers from academia is pure entertainment.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 30 November 2021 23:30 (two years ago) link
Just found out recently that my neighbours kid is a tik tok star with like two million follows.
― Kim, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
Most of this shit is just made up, right? The pranks, pratfalls and funniest home video BS? Like the kids are all just pretending something went wrong and planned it?
And ones like that "devious licks" upthread - someone started that a joke Tide Pods style to see what would happen, right? Tell me people arent actively this much Darwin Awards material.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 00:47 (two years ago) link
devious licks is an actual thing but the note upthread that if it weren't this it would be something else is 100% accurate as well
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 01:25 (two years ago) link
Yashar made this seem like a much more prominent thing than it was; that apparently wasn't even trending on tik tok until his dumb post.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 17 November 2023 16:06 (six months ago) link
Interesting
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 16:27 (six months ago) link
Ryan Broderick's full newsletter post about this is worth reading:https://www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-teens-arent-stanning-osama
― jaymc, Friday, 17 November 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Good newsletter. The videos were pretty awful, but in the end what was interesting is the reaction, which is to ban and close down these things and make them into a moral panic.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 November 2023 16:50 (six months ago) link
What was surprising to me is that they never seemed to have encountered any non-al qaeda critiques of american foreign policy. They all had reactions like, “the scales have fallen from my eyes, the us was bad and bin laden good” without considering a third option.
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 16:53 (six months ago) link
In any case, it was more niche than I thought when i read the yashar ali tweet and reacted emotionally
What was surprising to me is that they never seemed to have encountered any non-al qaeda critiques of american foreign policy.
― treeship., Friday, November 17, 2023 11:53 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
a while a go a bunch of tiktokers were convinced that giants are real lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 18:40 (six months ago) link
the human tendency toward groupthink is as old as our identity as a social animal. the only new factor here is the speed with which social media can form a cloud of agreement around a dust particle of thought
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 17 November 2023 18:48 (six months ago) link
these people seem notably dumb and credulous though
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 18:49 (six months ago) link
the bin laden loving giants truthers
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 18:50 (six months ago) link
tiktok is not a how do you say high information environment
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 18:52 (six months ago) link
says the guy who just got whipped into a moral panic by a tweet!xpost
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 November 2023 18:52 (six months ago) link
these people seem notably dumb and credulous
allow me to introduce you to a little club called Q-Anon
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 17 November 2023 18:54 (six months ago) link
tracer that is disingenuous
― imago, Friday, 17 November 2023 18:56 (six months ago) link
yashar ali's tweet wasn't wrong. the thing was trending. the substack post just tried to contextualize it a little. perhaps it was confined to certain niche parts of tik tok, even though he also admits the videos got millions of views.
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 18:59 (six months ago) link
lol not apologising you left yourself wide open for that one treesh
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 November 2023 19:00 (six months ago) link
feel like this whole thing could be some sort of op to discredit criticism of israel, its prob not, but its all pretty weird
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:03 (six months ago) link
The zings of your so-called western cultures are as weak and corrupt as your empty morality.--- Osama bin Laden ---
--- Osama bin Laden ---
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 17 November 2023 19:04 (six months ago) link
The thing that was off about the videos as compiled were the weird emotional reaction followed by asking for engagement. It's a kind of grift that just stops me in my tracks. A laugh at something dark.
Good to see the substack filling in the detail.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 November 2023 20:01 (six months ago) link
https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2023/11/17/osama-bin-laden-just-a-misunderstood-cuddly-teddy-bear-tiktokers-learn/
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:57 (six months ago) link
He should have quoted Hannah Smith but hey the message is what counts pic.twitter.com/h5z0UAN8G0— lara 🇵🇸 (@laralevana) November 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 November 2023 08:45 (six months ago) link
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sludge-videos-are-taking-over-tiktok-and-peoples-mind/
Love to see how bog standard video art content is being written about when it's tiktok content.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:31 (four months ago) link
lol
What is happening to the brain as it tries to process all the information in a sludge video?
Brain activity in response to sludge content hasn’t been studied directly, but experts say such content likely has similar effects on the brain as multitasking.
― lag∞n, Saturday, 20 January 2024 19:59 (four months ago) link
Guess this means those tv channels (like cp24) with a traffic cam, weather updates, stock ticker, news ticker, newsreel and sports results are proto-sludge...
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 21 January 2024 00:52 (four months ago) link
I thought this was going to be about those videos where a guy picks up a hammer and it digitally sludges into a popsicle.
― pplains, Sunday, 21 January 2024 03:37 (four months ago) link
what is the legal basis for congress banning tiktok? i mean i don't dispute that is foreign-owned and bad for americans, but so is fox news, which i'm pretty sure they could not get away with banning
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 March 2024 22:28 (two months ago) link
Very funny.
https://youmayalsolike.beehiiv.com/p/donghua-jinglong-glycine
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 6 April 2024 11:40 (one month ago) link
as i am not signed up (timethief concerns) my intermittent guide to super-weird tiktok is twitter-user @nudeobama aka "pikachu headpat girl": she has set her alg to an insane pitch of excellence (esp. if you appreciate hyperrealistic latex skinsuit guys)*
*(i beg you never appreciate this)
― mark s, Saturday, 6 April 2024 12:03 (one month ago) link
I love Tiktok but you have to curate your algo.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:09 (one month ago) link
thanks for that link!
― budo jeru, Saturday, 6 April 2024 22:19 (one month ago) link