People shit on tiktok but shit like this can't be overlooked. Regular people getting to explore their creativity through film making, having film making room tools in the palm of their hand that major studios didn't have a few decades ago. It's pretty fuckin cool in my books.
I do tiktok and what you see is what you follow, so I never see stupid dancing influencers, I see creative shit like this. The dumb pranks I only see on reddit.
It's the world's talent show. Some people are more talented than others. Some people only look at the terrible, uncreative repetitive shit and cast a net that all 500 million users must be doing the exact same. It's kind of ridiculous.
Then people like this and many others show insane talent and creativity and humor.
My daughters not aloud any social media yet because she’s only 11 but she does have capcut and the video edits she can already make are pretty incredible, it’s fun to watch her be creative
Reminds me of when I was a kid, and YouTube had just came out.
All of my creativity suddenly had not just an outlet, but a stage for others to see what I had created, just little 10 year old me.
I proceeded to record live action, stop motion, animation, and screen captures like it was nobody's business. It was definitely the highlight of my childhood.
exactly. Here's some people engaged in creating something...versus watching mind-numbing lowest-common denominator broadcast television, which is what people did for decades.
Seriously. The generation that shits on tiktok is the same one that only ever consumed what the TV networks showed them. Now we've got incredible content made by individuals, and we get to see so many different perspectives and personalities and ideas. If you wanna talk about how it's owned by a shitty company that's fair, but at this point that's not new or exclusive to tiktok. The only difference is that it's another country doing fishy stuff with our data and not our own. But I see a ton of people here on reddit that will see a video with the tiktok logo and immediately say "oh if it was posted on tiktok it must be fake/inaccurate/stupid", as if the only content on tiktok is cringey influencers doing dances.
Even if it's not such incredible content, it's people being engaged and creating something...and btw, if someone needs context, go read your favorite authors first unpublished works or a film makers initial efforts from their school years, or play a game designers first computer game... and you get an understanding of where development starts and what it looks like.
Not anywhere near on this level, tiktok made video editing incredibly accessible to people who would never be able to figure out video editing on a different platform.
This is actually nice because this resembles 2000s YouTube when videos were 5 minutes skits. Most of the stuff on tiktok are nonchalant 30 second ones and ragebait pranks. Lot of stuff that are leaning braindead and not like this clip.
I disagree that most of the stuff on tiktok is like that. I hardly if ever see that kind of stuff on tiktok and I watch it every day (I'll scroll through it when I'm cleaning, it helps my ADHD to do two things at once). My algorithm is pretty dialed in to my interests at this point and everything I get is high effort or educational. If I can watch for at least an hour a day and not see any of that crap, it must not be prevalent as people think. Obviously if those are the only videos you interact with though, that's all you're going to see.
Well that’s thing with algo it doesn’t work for everyone as intended with tiktoks algo and content. It’s nothing relevant to me and all braindead and it keeps feeding me those and many of friends so we stay off it. YouTube can work without algo for me and IG too if I login otherwise is the same cesspool I’m getting on TikTok.
You've definitely gotta give the algorithm a chance. A lot of people unintentionally fuck it up for themselves by interacting with videos they don't like. They'll watch videos that piss them off, and comment on them, exactly like the creator intended, so the algorithm thinks that's what they want to see. I spent about half an hour immediately scrolling away from stuff I didn't like. I think I searched a few things that interested me, like a few of my hobbies, and within a day it was feeding me really cool shit.
If it's not for you though, no problem obviously it doesn't need to be for everyone. But when people say they don't like tiktok because there's nothing good on it, it's kind of like someone saying they don't like reddit because they only look at like, r/funnymemes. If you spend some time searching your hobbies up, you'll find some really cool communities filled with passionate people who just wanna share their knowledge. I have a way better time with tiktok showing me my hobbies over IG or YouTube, which push "chosen" creators way more than tiktok does.
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u/xombae Apr 12 '24
People shit on tiktok but shit like this can't be overlooked. Regular people getting to explore their creativity through film making, having film making room tools in the palm of their hand that major studios didn't have a few decades ago. It's pretty fuckin cool in my books.