So I’ve long been curious about TikTok. I even downloaded the app once, couldn’t make heads or tails of it, and deleted it to make space. But the increasing amount of incredibly creative content coming off the platform has made me take notice.
This culminated with a cosplayer who made a TikTok that kind of went viral where she does a short… routine? to Lizzo’s Boys where her body language closely mirrors that of anime sensibilities.
Friends I am OBSESSED with this video. But TikTok seems like its really hard to find good stuff unless you dig through someone’s profile with the dedication of a squirrel hunting for nuts.
Does anyone have any TikTok users they like? Or tips on how to use the platform (especially on desktop)?
Yeah I just tend to not like compilations if I can stay away from them because they’re so bad about crediting the original creators, and I’d much rather give those folks the views
Yeah but they can be good to find the creators and then just follow them on actual tik tok after. The good comps will keep the OG creator’s user name in the bottom right.
I was way into Vine, but whenever I made videos myself, I felt like a fraud. Most vines seemed to be made by popular good looking people dancing around.
Until I watched Limmy’s vines who elevated the medium into an artform.
The two main barriers for me getting into TikTok are a marked difference in musical taste between me and most creators on the platform. Also the prevalence of teens on it makes me feel a bit skeevy.
There are definitely talented people on it who are way better at dance/choreography than I could dream of.
I’ve been curating a TikTok thread on twitter since late last year (with links to the source). I haven’t updated it in a while, but I have like a hundred or so downloaded and ready to be uploaded.
Hello. I have a question. can anyone give me a solution
I’m old and just downloaded TikTok. I am so out of touch with the youth crowd and have so many questions about what I’m seeing on TT.
What is with the lady robot voice that reads off text on a screen?
What is the thing where a lady holds her phone out and points at her bed then rotates and point at her door?
What is the animated French queen who’s running high speed through an animated castle?
What do people spell things funny, eg. seggs?
What is the thing where someone writes “look at the corner”… “look at the number”?
What’s the high-pitched “glad you’re back again song?”
A lot of these are specific memes or audios that are hot right now — they’ll come and go, and I’ll be honest I’m not sure what a couple of them are since I haven’t been on it as much recently. But there are a couple that do have answers!
Tiktok has a specific text-to-voice feature that will read user-entered text with that voice . People use it to vocalize text that, for whatever reason, they can’t or don’t want to say.
There are probably meme-ier reasons for this too, but I think the reason this particular one began was because Tiktok casts a pretty wide (and controversial) net when it comes to censoring “sexual” content, and it becomes a way of circumventing an automated system that might ban a user for something that it thinks violates the app’s T&S.
The general conceit for Tiktok memes is that users will make different videos that use the same audio track — so you’ll hear the same sounds and tracks a lot as a background to people doing different things or making different kinds of jokes that reference that audio. That’s the broad answer to a lot of your questions.
My wife got really into Tik Tok, but I told her I wouldn’t download it because I feel like I’ve crossed what I call my Damn Daniel line. Does anyone remember the Damn Daniel meme? It was a viral video featuring a kid saying “Damn Daniel” whenever his friend walked by. The video was all over the Internet for a few weeks, and I just didn’t get it. I spent an entire day tracing the history of the meme to see if I was missing some context, like a line from a TV show or a pop song or something.
Turns out, nope, it’s a video about a kid who is just really excited about his buddy’s shoes.
Anyway, at that point, I figured that the Internet had truly passed me by, and I should no longer try and chase the latest Internet trends. So, I feel like Tik Tok is firmly on the other side of the Damn Daniel line, and I’m okay with it.
I know this message isn’t much help, but MySpace isn’t a thing anymore, so I have no place to talk about this stuff.
I think TikTok in 2021 is very good with a very bad onboarding experience. This is a personal experience because their algorithm is very very good. When you first start using the app it will throw everything at you like content depth charges to see where you’re at and it’s extremely confusing. I think it factors in how long you watch certain types of videos (how quickly you swipe to the next) and if you let them loop to zero in on your interests… BUT if you’re like me and use the “not interested” button on websites like YouTube and TikTok it will even more quickly start to “know you”.
For example, when I first downloaded it every other video seemed to be some conventionally attractive woman dancing and lipsyncing to a song. Now my TikTok feed is almost entirely leftists/socialist/communists talking about politics, comedy, tech news and tips, gaming stuff, science communicators and cats.
Hank Green went through an experience that makes all this clears
