Vine was nothing like TikTok. The editing tools of TikTok are vastly superior and lead to much higher quality videos with higher probability of being worth watching.
Vine was mostly shitty little 6 second clips of meme like content. Good for some laughs, but ultimately vapid and shallow. By the time they even wanted to experiment with longer format content they were done.
That’s not even mentioning cultural differences.
Isn't this what Tiktok is? I thought it was mostly tweens dancing and lip syncing.
It’s very easy to conduct this experiment, just make sure that the race you target doesn’t represent the majority of the users in your proximity. For instance, if you’re in Norway then try to get TikTok to recommend Asian girls aged 20-35.. sounds like it should be easy, right?
An example of the good stuff you can run across on TikTok is this lady:
https://www.tiktok.com/@arizonagypsy
Roughly, she made some videos lamenting the phenomenon of how her children and grandchildren have ~"forgotten" her, despite the fundamentally important role she played in their life in the past.
I couldn't find the original video (why can't you sort by date posted!!!???), but these give you an approximate idea:
https://www.tiktok.com/@arizonagypsy/video/68683101136402874...
https://www.tiktok.com/@arizonagypsy/video/68683779147448517...
I think it would be fair to say she has a feeling of not being wanted/valued, not being useful in the complex new world we've created. Something like that.
Well as it turns out, these posts seem to have struck a chord with a fair amount of people (35.8K Followers, 396.5K Likes), and she now fairly regularly does live streams (she was initially extremely hesitant, because she didn't really see why people would want to watch, which is somewhat paradoxical to her original complaint) with >100 (last time I watched) people watching who just ask her random questions and she answers them. Everyone seems to get something out of it: she now has a genuine purpose and value in life, and viewers have the opportunity to ask questions for which the answers cannot be found on the internet, if they're even there at all.
I personally think this is a form of Magick[1], and I mean that not only unironically, but I think this is what we need to get us out of the absolute mess we've created on this planet. Education, logic and critical thinking, which we're not nearly as good at as we perceive, doesn't seem like it's anywhere near up to a task this large.
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But people love the subreddits for their interests.
There's no way to make a single front-page that everyone likes.