The New Pornographers — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
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The New Pornographers — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Most of the work on TikTok is derivative of other work. Whether it's dance, music, or some other work. The majority is a remix of someone else's work. That in itself is very different from other social networks. Instagram doesn't have a reshare function by design.
Eugene Wei • Tiktok, Emergent Creativity, The Limits of Social Graphs, and whatever else Eugene talked about (E1)
TikTok launches seemingly a new video effect or filter every week. I regularly log in and see creators using some filter I've never heard of, and some of them are just flat out bonkers. What creators can accomplish with some of these filters I can't even fathom how I'd replicate in something like the Adobe Creative Suite.
Eugene Wei • American Idle — Remains of the Day
TikTok is less a pure social network, the type focused on social capital, than an entertainment network. I don’t socialize with people on TikTok, I barely know any of them. It consists of a network of people connected to each other, but they are connected for a distinct reason, for creators to reach viewers with their short videos.
Eugene Wei • TikTok and the Sorting Hat — Remains of the Day
Innovating within an existing platform is always a challenge, because as media theorist Marshall McLuhan argued decades ago, ‘the medium is the message’. TikTok and Twitter/X have short-form content built into the design of the platform, which prevents depth. As I explore in The Bigger Picture, this also leads to what philosopher C. Thi Nguyen call... See more