Citations Needed: The Tiktok

  • InternetLefty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That was dope but way too fast is this how zoomers consume all their media? I don't have tiktok

    • Gabbo [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      The amount of stimulation they expose themselves to is wild. It starts with a video, but there's an overlayed audio clip referencing another meme, then there's text over the video, in the corner there's a "live react" webcam of someone watching the main content, and there's a smashcut every 2 seconds so you can't keep track of what's going on, and as soon as it ends, it autoplays the next video, which is some teenage girl in volleyball shorts doing a vulgar dance. Oh and it's all played at 2x speed

      I'M OLD :chumpsky:

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      It has probably been successful specifically because it's too fast, causing people to watch it multiple times and telling the algorithm they have high interest in it.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        When the leftist meme text block is actually beating the algos. Holy shit is that why the CIA and news media are agaisnt tiktok now cuss they see a bunch of leftist shit on there!?

      • Wertheimer [any]
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        2 years ago

        Previous generations just wrote increasingly obscurantist texts to pass the "peer review" algorithm

      • wwiehtnioj [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Or it's too fast to really teach anything explicitly leftist and is getting traction with general audiences who have largely incoherent or fascist/ancap beliefs and readily agree with the general "government bad" vibes they get from the video without digging any further.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      I do not encourage generational discourse, but zoomers watch shit at 2x speed because they are little media consumption gremlins.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        This, I was lucky enough to have been highschool to college with the creation of Vine, and had been a gradeschooler to middleschooler during YouTube video memes first arising. Watching traditional news is fucking torture to me, not to mention 90% of news being regurgitated shit boomers watch of reactionaries repeating a screed ad nuaseum. Anything that isn't a speed vid or quick read with periods of pausing are talks with Parenti or Chris Hedges playing in the background that helps to vibe me out.