In the process of dechudifying and delibifying what I see online, this was a crucial step. A black non-binary transfem can only take so much.
In the process of dechudifying and delibifying what I see online, this was a crucial step. A black non-binary transfem can only take so much.
I never understood the appeal of TikTok.
Theres some good content there despite its other failings. Same for isntagram. People make a lot of cool shit but dont wanna spend a bun h of time finding where to post it as theyrd mostly busy making cool shit IRL
I can imagine but, the signature style I usually see is people miming and lip syncing for 30 seconds, which is just unappealing to me. I’m used to long format stuff.
Assuming that is all TikTok is about is like assuming Youtube is nothing but reaction videos. Sure, these genres are really popular on their respective platforms, but it’s a small sample of what they have to offer.
I agree. I’m sure there’s some good content out there but, the popularity and ubiquitousness of that particular and my dislike of the short form style both me off. For the short form in particular, it shows it’s limits when people have to stitch their videos together to get their point across.
I’ll concur with others that your impression of the platform isn’t very accurate, but also you have nothing to worry about cause it jumped the shark last year.
The ALG just pushes ads, paid partnerships, and e-commerce at you. Almost all the content remaining is from big established creators 9common to many platforms). The same 5 songs are on every video and new ones stopped showing up.
The few people making good content are great, but I wish they would find a better place to put it (cause it’s good stuff and I want people to find it in a more accessible place)
It’s the algorithmic feed nonsense. At least YouTube lets me look up what I want to see, not roll the dice training an algorithm to not give me skimpily clad teenagers dancing badly, which is apparently the default. I’m here for zoo animals getting enrichment and woodworking content alone
Yeah theres definitely a lot of that on any platform with a userbase that large. I feel like tiktok definitely pushes it to be popular though.
I remember when it started here in India. It was one of the karaoke apps that was huge. It was mostly just like instagram videos but with karaoke and duets I guess. Then it gradually became a site with more videos like vines. It was banned in India by the brave modi govt to stop chinese infiltration as they put (but actually it was to fall in burgerland’s good graces). But it still exists in different names.
There is a sort of “in your face” aspect to the karaoke shorts that I never liked. Also it’s popularity makes me just automatically dislike it because of how ubiquitous it is. It was the same way for me on YouTube when AMVs were popular over a decade ago. Sometimes YouTube has some good shorts but, I never appreciate how the site pushes them on people.
Yeah the weird thing about the tiktok videos is that it is almost everywhere. No matter what pockets online it finds its way. Almost all social media have em. Singing karaoke style videos fell to the wayside and then just literally vertical long videos became flooding.
Yep. Their ubiquitousness is always off-putting to me. There’s always a gimmick. And the growth of this TikTok Shop’s popularity is also concerning to me. There could be quite a bit of potential to induce a terrible cycle of addictive shopping fueled by a slurry of short-form videos.
I feel like the shopping fueled by videos is already a thing.