A fantastic essay by Eugene Wei on how TikTok’s tool set makes this possible: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2021/2/15/american-idle
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26225781
TikTok Remix Culture
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#12TikTok is the greatest creativity tools I've seen in years and I am fascinated how people are trying to downplay or outright dismiss it because of their nationalistic or political feelings. It's like watching fundamentalist trying to preserve their purity when their kosher brands are racing to imitate the features of the forbidden brand. Hearing the "underage girls dancing and lip syncing, no thanks" line repeated fi…
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar—nationalistic, political, religious, or otherwise (you hit all three here). If you want to say what you think is great about TikTok or creative things people are doing, that's wonderful; please don't pack it with flamebait. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > I got my HN account locked when I was begging people to I don't know wha…
It was rate limited as I was trying to explain why I thought that it was wrong to blok websites and apps.
Okay, I am removing the part about the recent political events. I think it is important and relevant but I get that it is off limits so I won't talk about it.
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#13TikTok really is incredible. I don't do much in the way of social media, but it's better than any other big app I've ever used.
The other really cool use I've seen of this style of stitching is emergent songs. Here's an example: https://www.tiktok.com/@patwhoisnice/video/69158104300531089...
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar—nationalistic, political, religious, or otherwise (you hit all three here). If you want to say what you think is great about TikTok or creative things people are doing, that's wonderful; please don't pack it with flamebait. That only makes things worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > I got my HN account locked when I was begging people to I don't know wha…
It was rate limited as I was trying to explain why I thought that it was wrong to blok websites and apps. Okay, I am removing the part about the recent political events. I think it is important and relevant but I get that it is off limits so I won't talk about it.
It's not so much "off limits", it's about comment quality. Low-information, high-indignation comments are not what we want here.
As topics become more divisive, comments trend sharply in that direction, so it's important to be mindful of what sort of thread your comment is likely to lead to.
That's why we have this guideline: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
See also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
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#15That was pretty interesting. Combine that with the neural rendering that was posted earlier for GTA-V and you could actually create high quality new novel content from remixes.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was rate limited as I was trying to explain why I thought that it was wrong to blok websites and apps. Okay, I am removing the part about the recent political events. I think it is important and relevant but I get that it is off limits so I won't talk about it.
It's not so much "off limits", it's about comment quality. Low-information, high-indignation comments are not what we want here. As topics become more divisive, comments trend sharply in that direction, so it's important to be mindful of what sort of thread your comment is likely to lead to. That's why we have this guideline: " Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisi…
Thank you for the follow up. I am not trying to push it but I'm failing to understand how I can express my opinions and experience about governments blocking apps and websites. What would make a comment describing what happened in Turkey and asking people to reconsider their support for app and website blocking in the name of claimed greater good a high quality comment?
This is my second time I fail at this. If this is not banned speech or undesired opinion, do you have any tips to improve my comment quality on the issue?
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#17TikTok really is incredible. I don't do much in the way of social media, but it's better than any other big app I've ever used. The other really cool use I've seen of this style of stitching is emergent songs. Here's an example: https://www.tiktok.com/@patwhoisnice/video/69158104300531089...
Also, it's the first social platform I've seen that has solved the new user growth problem - every user's first few videos are guaranteed hundreds of views no matter what. So good content naturally rises without having to be spammy/promote itself. Compare that to something like Twitch where growing a stream to even getting 30 regular viewers can take years of grinding and a ton of hustle.
The average follower count for even just a regular user who has maybe 1-2 good videos can be in the low thousands.
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#18What’s really interesting about TikTok is that they’ve seem to have successfully taken making a fool of yourself on the internet (and out in public if you dance outside) mainstream.
I have no idea what compels otherwise everyday people to post embarrassing and sometimes way too personal videos for potentially millions of people to laugh at but they do it.
Of course, there are a lot of issues with the app itself, but it’s nice to see the world be a little less serious sometimes.
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#19That TikTok algorithm is something else. I thought classmates were exaggerating about how much it sucked them in until I checked my Screen Time after a week of using the app.
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#20That TikTok algorithm is something else. I thought classmates were exaggerating about how much it sucked them in until I checked my Screen Time after a week of using the app.
I feel weird because I tried to like TikTok but I ended up hating it with a passion. No matter how many times I skipped/disliked a given video type, they still kept showing up. TikTok is clearly not targeted to me because just writing about my experience here is once again upsetting me.