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TikTok Remix Culture

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327 points demail | 3 comments | 15 May 21 00:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.317s | source
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buryat ◴[15 May 21 04:53 UTC] No.27162491[source]▶
I have never seen so many to say "average" people on tiktok like on any other social platform, in a sense that I can relate to those people and don't feel like a celebrity is trying to feed me some content down my throat. There's so much of normalization of everything that I'm blown away by how normal Tiktok is, you can see teenagers struggling in a school, you can see people hating their 9-5 jobs, you can see crafts and arts, you can see people with disabilities living life at its fullest, cooking videos, etc.

The whole vibe is so wholesome that it's truly the first social network that feels social in a wide sense.

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1. akkawwakka ◴[15 May 21 05:27 UTC] No.27162672[source]▶
It’s definitely a pro-social, social platform. It shows that you don’t have to rely on polarizing or adversarial content to drive engagement (_ cough, like Facebook & Twitter cough)
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2. Nextgrid ◴[15 May 21 09:09 UTC] No.27163622[source]▶
Yet.

Remember that the platforms we complain about also started off totally fine, but eventually greed caught up with all of them.

3. ehsankia ◴[15 May 21 19:05 UTC] No.27167943[source]▶
Eh, it still exists. I have gotten in a few cohorts that were quite toxic, especially near the election. There's still quite a lot of vaccine/mask vs anti-vaccine/mask content, and you general political crap. It's easy to get off of those, the dislike button is definitely your friend, but if you don't have the willpower and self-control I do think you can fall into the same rabbit holes as Youtube or any other platform.