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My son of 10 and almost all of his classmates use tiktok. The real killer is the dances on the music. They don't have to invent a new topic every time. They ju
by koonsolo 7y ago
My son of 10 and almost all of his classmates use tiktok.
The real killer is the dances on the music. They don't have to invent a new topic every time. They just see a music video they like, and imitate it. Together with all the effects it's very easy to create a crazy video with basically nothing.
- bredren 7y agoI have been tracking tiktok for about 11 months now. If you watched it over this time, it is really quite amazing what has blown through the platform. One example of an early "dance" was the Boss Walk. This one is almost completely gone now but it was essentially an inside joke to people who followed the content of the platform. Another thing special to TT is that it was successful at sucking content in from other platforms, including Instagram, and then having that be remixed via the audio under unclear licensing terms. A good example of this is the "oh shit it's a rat" meme. Once the meme makes it into the blood of the userbase, it doesn't even need the audio and it can take on a life of its own leaving behind most content origination though the audio stays. The most impactful example was definitely Old Town Road, and the jump / costume changes. This song was huge on the platform and already waning before it made it onto billboard and exploaded mainstream
- unlinked_dll 7y agoTo be fair there have been videos like that on basically every video platform since the dawn of the internet
- bdcravens 7y agoTikTok does a very good job of removing friction in creating and publishing that content however.
- koonsolo 7y agoIf you copy a video like that on YouTube, you are called all kinds of names. On tiktok, if 3 of your friends make the same video, the cool thing is to also do the same one.
- james_niro 7y agoI believe TikTok is great for younger generation. It lets them be silly without any filters and photoshop.