53.7K Likes, 1K Comments. TikTok video from James Rehwald (@jrehwald15): "The US propaganda machine explained #capitalism #imperialism #neocolonialism". I Get Around - Remastered 2001 - The Beach Boys.
This is a really interesting tiktok because it's basically the leftist meme about too much text.... Except on tiktok this has caused the algorithm to boost the fuck out of it.
Why? Because in order to understand wtf the video is on about people have had to focus really hard, pause it multiple times, and watch it more than once. The AI has viewed this behaviour as engagement and multiple views of a video is considered a good thing by the algo.
Not to mention that it is immediately triggering for the libs because US and propaganda is in the first screen while socialism and capitalism is in the next couple seconds. This causes the triggered people to hate-watch it.
Leftists can do well on tiktok by throwing out everything they know about "memeing" and leaning into many things we tell ourselves not to do elsewhere.
I tried to read the quote at the end and gave up after tiktok automatically unpaused+restarted the video four times, I did my part. :07:
If this person doesn't have a youtube or a podcast where they explain this stuff in a better format I feel like they're missing out, this video by itself seems like it could contain enough information to be a Blowback season or something.
"All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy and fake “public opinion” for the benefit of the bourgeoisie."
This is a really interesting tiktok because it's basically the leftist meme about too much text.... Except on tiktok this has caused the algorithm to boost the fuck out of it.
Why? Because in order to understand wtf the video is on about people have had to focus really hard, pause it multiple times, and watch it more than once. The AI has viewed this behaviour as engagement and multiple views of a video is considered a good thing by the algo.
Not to mention that it is immediately triggering for the libs because US and propaganda is in the first screen while socialism and capitalism is in the next couple seconds. This causes the triggered people to hate-watch it.
Leftists can do well on tiktok by throwing out everything they know about "memeing" and leaning into many things we tell ourselves not to do elsewhere.
I tried to read the quote at the end and gave up after tiktok automatically unpaused+restarted the video four times, I did my part. :07:
If this person doesn't have a youtube or a podcast where they explain this stuff in a better format I feel like they're missing out, this video by itself seems like it could contain enough information to be a Blowback season or something.
- VI Lenin 1921, A Letter To G. Myasnikov
(Also worth a read on its own! It's a short letter)