Something about this platform makes it way more conformist than the other ones, at least so far. Half the videos seem to be people doing their own version of other users’ videos.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
If, as seems to be the case, kids are super enthusiastic about Tik-Tok, even if it looks to me to be scarcely different than other short video platforms, I would hazard the guess that maybe it's because kids think of it, rightly or wrongly, as being an internet space that belongs to more to kids than adults. Even if that idea were in some degree correct, it will without a doubt be co-opted by adults to push stuff at kids so fast it will make your head spin.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 24 April 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
vine was good because there were a lot of videos of people falling down and eating shit. these things are too long, giving its users too much of an opportunity to express their horrible personalities
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Friday, 24 April 2020 03:32 (three years ago) link
First social media app that ive started using to try it out and realized immediately that I'm too old for it, I hate it, and I dont understand it.
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 April 2020 04:11 (three years ago) link
that was / is snapchat for me. I can't even figure out how to use the app. every time I open it i just get the camera and the icons make no sense and no i don't want to import my contacts. it was the first app that made me feel completely old.
― akm, Friday, 24 April 2020 05:38 (three years ago) link
ok boomers
― donald failson (sic), Friday, 24 April 2020 05:45 (three years ago) link
this was fun for the first couple of hours, but once you realise 95% of the videos fall into the same specific buckets (weeknd dance routines, shitty pranks on family members, kids’ voices ironically dubbed onto adults, cats/dogs, gym junkies in their pants, 31 year olds insisting they’re not too old for tiktok) it really loses its allure
― karmic blowback for dissing pip and jane baker (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 April 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
3liza's curated TikTok threads are better than actually using TikTok:
tiktok thread directorypart 1: rednecks making huge strides on tiktok - https://t.co/QUkW1hiKYOpart 2: helo - https://t.co/FFiMB6rvu2part 3: arson - https://t.co/8oLufiuEhL— in fair corona where we quarantine (@3liza) February 7, 2020
I'm amazed that there hasn't been a gigantic moral panic about the platform yet.
― ShariVari, Friday, 24 April 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
There are rumours of censorship of political content on TikTok. I'm not sure how true they are. I wouldn't be surprised at all though, it's a relentlessly 'posi' platform.
This was good though:https://www.tiktok.com/@kyscottt/video/6815758866769349894
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 April 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@coprobro/video/6650643313068084485?u_code=d512kgcmd6aa8e&language=en×tamp=1553533543&utm_campaign=client_share&app=musically&utm_medium=ios&user_id=6663118810343686150&tt_from=copy&utm_source=copy&source=h5_m
this one is really good
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
there was also a controversy because the company told moderators to suppress posts by obese people, disabled people, and others with "undesirable" traits
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-users-discrimination/
― edgard varese-type beat (voodoo chili), Friday, 24 April 2020 14:15 (three years ago) link
jeez. that makes sense, honestly. the people i am seeing are mostly young, fit, and even blend in with the celebrities who pop up posting similar content.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
there is something very untrustworthy about it. specifically, the fact that 1/2 the humor seems to be playing on gender and age stereotypes.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
The biggest problem with the platform, imo, is there's basically no way of monetising prominence other than taking donations from users. You have a bunch of young people, often under or around the age of 18, with Amazon wishlists, Cash Apps, etc getting $$$ from internet randos of all ages. Inevitably, that leads to some of them selling nudes, etc, It's incredibly dodgy on an app that is largely intended for children.
― ShariVari, Friday, 24 April 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
yeah, eesh.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
Totally.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 24 April 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
instagram is like this too, i imagine. it's become so much more about people trying to become personal brands than it is a photo sharing app.
― treeship., Friday, 24 April 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
I think Tiktok has gone out of their way to heavily censor anything perceived as adult content tbf, much more than Instagram, but it's not a good situation.
― ShariVari, Friday, 24 April 2020 14:36 (three years ago) link
― akm, Thursday, April 23, 2020 10:38 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
oh I didn't get snapchat either but sort of categorized it as a messaging app more than a social media platform, I'm not even sure if that's correct mind you
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 24 April 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
this one is killing me somehow.https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS9QNE4s/between this and the guy who tries to guess paint colors while he’s watching the constituent paints being mixed there’s this kind of joy in the abject that i feel like tiktok often just nails and i am a huge sucker for it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
this one’s good toohttps://vm.tiktok.com/ZS93wSxX/
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 14 October 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
lol, that is a fucking sin
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 4 December 2020 21:13 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
awesome
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:57 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
oh, can't wait for that tonight then
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:19 (two 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 (two years ago) link
https://www.tiktok.com/@overloadcomedy/video/6920289799702203650
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 29 January 2021 01:30 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
ok, that's pretty good.
― treeship., Sunday, 23 May 2021 21:48 (two 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
That is amazing.
― daBobo (PBKR), Thursday, 12 May 2022 20:07 (one year ago) link
the duddesthttps://www.stereogum.com/2187634/halsey-tiktok-viral-song/news/
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 3 June 2022 10:54 (one year ago) link
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/uk/health/sexual-health/a40938627/what-is-vabbing/
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
● Washing your hands both before and after● Not allowing areas you’ve ‘vabbed’ to touch anything or anyone● Wiping down gym equipment before and after use● Making sure you get checked by a professional if you think you sense an unusual or bad odour
● Not allowing areas you’ve ‘vabbed’ to touch anything or anyone
● Wiping down gym equipment before and after use
● Making sure you get checked by a professional if you think you sense an unusual or bad odour
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 01:18 (one year ago) link
TikTok profits from livestreams of families begginghttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63213567
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 October 2022 10:28 (one year ago) link
"vabbing"
The wisdom of the ancients alive today
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
this overlong essay on the "enshittification" of TikTok makes a good case for the vicious cycle of social media
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 24 January 2023 12:40 (ten months ago) link
Hmm
I wrote about the unhinged therapists making videos about their clients on TikTok, and how social media has smoothed over the ethical issues of certain professions turning their jobs into content https://t.co/u6kflar9NN— Sarah Manavis (@sarahmanavis) January 26, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 January 2023 11:34 (ten months ago) link
Pretty incredible way for so-called professionals to behave.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 26 January 2023 12:07 (ten months ago) link
First time I heard of this was a therapist bitching online about a client "traumadumping" on her. What did she think her job was.
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 26 January 2023 13:38 (ten months ago) link
Hey GUYYYYYYYS it's ziggy here back again from VIENNA y'heard and you are NOT GONNA BELIEVE who this crazy bitch I'm seeing thinks she wants to fuck
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 26 January 2023 15:19 (ten months ago) link
TikTok has insane energy, the Four Loko of social media.
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Thursday, 26 January 2023 16:11 (ten months ago) link
whats going on over there
What in the fuck is this shit pic.twitter.com/YTABQF81mP— Rascal ✝️ (@PeakRascal) July 27, 2023
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 18:35 (three months ago) link
There is no single app I’d like to crash and burn horribly more than tiktok.
― a love song for connor wong (gyac), Monday, 31 July 2023 18:59 (three months ago) link
jfc when i look at tiktok it's all classic video games, vintage audio gear and some DIY home improvement stuff mixed in.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 31 July 2023 20:33 (three months ago) link
three quarters of my instagram ads look like that AI scam shit
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 31 July 2023 21:18 (three months ago) link
anyone got a playlist of semi obscure old songs whose play count has skyrocketed due to tiktok? (thinking boa’s “duvet”, pavement’s “harness your hopes”, duster, lwb etc)
― LaMDA barry-stanners (||||||||), Sunday, 1 October 2023 06:39 (one month ago) link
there’s this Songs that became famous because of a system glitch
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 1 October 2023 07:52 (one month ago) link
Over the past 24 hours, thousands of TikToks (at least) have been posted where people share how they just read Bin Laden’s infamous "Letter to America," in which he explained why he attacked the United States.The TikToks are from people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and… pic.twitter.com/EwjiGtFEE3— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:01 (one week ago) link
this is what weve been working for all these years
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:04 (one week ago) link
was going to get personal about my experience with 9/11.
decided not to.
but in any case
fuck these people.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 November 2023 23:48 (one week ago) link
https://nitter.net/broderick/status/1725210803698085946#m
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 17 November 2023 02:30 (one week ago) link
Social media
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 November 2023 08:13 (one week ago) link
One thing about this letter is that most of it is about how the jews control American finance and the country is corrupt due to secularism, with Bin Laden citing gay rights as an example of why Americans should be killed. All expected from Bin Laden, but I am not sure why American Tik Tokers liked it. Only a small portion of the letter is about the humanitarian conditions of the palestinians.
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 12:25 (one week ago) link
This leads me to believe that people cannot read.
Some tik tokers said the letter “changed their entire way of looking at the world.” So are they jihadis now?
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 12:26 (one week ago) link
is this like tide pods
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 17 November 2023 12:55 (one week ago) link
Nothing will happen.
Interesting why The Guardian felt the need to delete it and why tiktok are allegedly banning videos. What are they afraid will happen?
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 November 2023 13:03 (one week ago) link
tiktok teens should continue discovering and falling for various terrible historical political figures culminating in the platform shutting down because all its users have become stalinists
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 13:14 (one week ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/N1LzcVI.jpg
― c u (crüt), Friday, 17 November 2023 13:56 (one week 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 15:36 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
Interesting
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 16:27 (one week ago) link
― 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
these people seem notably dumb and credulous though
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 18:49 (one week ago) link
the bin laden loving giants truthers
― treeship., Friday, 17 November 2023 18:50 (one week ago) link
tiktok is not a how do you say high information environment
― lag∞n, Friday, 17 November 2023 18:52 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
tracer that is disingenuous
― imago, Friday, 17 November 2023 18:56 (one week 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 (one week ago) link
lol not apologising you left yourself wide open for that one treesh
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 November 2023 19:00 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week 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 (one week ago) link