TikTok Face — Real Life
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TikTok Face — Real Life
TikTok enables and invites the pointed, witty, playful, allusive, zany and endlessly inventive combination of video, music and text. But the creative energies of its more than one billion users are circumscribed and channeled by the architecture of the platform.
TikTok’s spectacular success in enlisting consumers as producers depends on making produ
... See moreROGERS BRUBAKER • Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents
Not only does TikTok capture very clean signals of sentiment from its users, it also gathers a tremendous volume of them per session. Videos on TikTok are so short that even in a brief session, TikTok can gather a lot of feedback on your tastes.
Eugene Wei • Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day
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The second is more media than social. It’s driven by AI-powered and network-driven platforms that allow people to discover creativity, learning, and connection online. TikTok is an early iteration, untethered from a social graph and letting strangers connect across the globe.
Rex Woodbury • The Evolution of Social Media: Splitting Into Social and Media
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Now compare that with a service that’s not only a video hosting platform, but simultaneously a video creation platform: TikTok. For creators, TikTok is incredibly differentiated because their videos can only be created on TikTok through their creation tools.
Eric Feng • YouTube of the future
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TikTok is an eternal channel flip, and the flip is the point: there is no settled point of interest to land on. Nothing is meant to sustain your attention
Kyle Chayka • Essay: How do you describe TikTok?
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Some invest a lot of time and skill in crafting TikTok videos, but neither time nor skill is required. If TikTok “enables everyone to be a creator,” as its former mission statement proclaimed, this is because creative labor on the platform has been automated and deskilled.