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TikTok Remix Culture

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327 points demail | 2 comments | 15 May 21 00:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.411s | source
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sergiotapia ◴[15 May 21 02:12 UTC] No.27161666[source]▶
Tiktok has replaced tv for me. I can watch some fun content for 20 minutes before bed and go back to my life. No more 45 minute commitments to watch a series.
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1. contriban ◴[15 May 21 03:56 UTC] No.27162203[source]▶
I hate that. I noticed I developed this pattern over years of consuming short content online. Why start a big task (or even watch a movie) when there’s this 5 minute video (repeated over 20 videos). TikTok takes this to the extreme with 5-second videos that keep your mind busy without ever having to make a choice. This is addiction and I had to delete TikTok like I deleted YouTube and Facebook. Now Instagram got reels too and I’m stuck in it.
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2. Apocryphon ◴[15 May 21 07:05 UTC] No.27163083[source]▶
Yeah, why read books when you can read online articles? Why even read longreads when you can read summaries? Why read a summary when there's a Tweet thread? Why read when you can listen to the audio of a YouTube video you're not even looking at? And so on and on and on. There's an insidiousness to online media that seems even worse than how TV used to be. At least TV, radio, and print were all clearly separate mediums. Now it's all hypertext, equally evanescent.