TikTok is different now.
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- What happens when an online community goes away? Or changes?
The TikTok ban is in more limbo than most people are willing to admit, or even realize. The companies keeping the app online in the U.S. are risking their lives to keep this thing up, and the enforcement delay by Trump is tenuous, at best. He's still looking to get ByteDance to sell.
Already, on zombie TikTok, people are pulling a classic social platform move: talking about the fate of the very social platform they're posting on. The takeaway? The vibes are off.
Maybe it's the algorithm, or maybe it's a political awakening. Maybe it's missing CapCut templates. Who knows? Not me.
Austin thinks that this moment has happened before, only smaller. He talks about that here.
*Sources*
'How to disappear completely', s.e. smith: www.theverge.c...
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By the way, did you know that the TikTok logo is a lowercase 'd' for 'Douyin', the name of the app in China?
Thanks to the real ones out there that made the first year of uncoverage unforgettable.
Nice work
Favorite and most inspiring creator of 2024. Thank you for continuing the experiment. Cheers!
@@spolthank you!
@@zean_moore😭 thank you so much. and thank you for watching!
very happy about yt finally recommending fresh interesting content from new and smaller creators
🙏 very happy about yt finally bringing you here! thanks for watching!
i love how quiet and slow this video is. It feels like a cinematic releafe after all stimulators sorrounding us
just wait until you see my Mr. Rogers outfit.
I clicked on this thinking you might start telling me about how the algorithm steers Right now.
He doesn’t talk about that? Thanks for saving me some time.
curious about this. where are you finding this information?
@@uncoverage can't really speak to the algo but ppl have been showing that political and current events related search terms are being blocked on US servers
I was recommended a Charlie Kirk video right after it came back online (I am the opposite of a republican)
@@uncoverage I scrolled exactly 3 times once it “came back” and saw hateful right wing bot comments everywhere, after basically not seeing a single one for the previous 5 years. It went from independent social media to state-owned right wing propaganda literally overnight.
love your filming style, it's so unique. The orange glow towards the end has a candle like burn, warm and low, about to go out.
i’m so glad you enjoy it 😭 thanks for watching!
Watching that pinegrove shuffle montage made me realize how much tiktok actually means to me, it has been a constant sorce of stimulation and socialization since i was still in middle school back in 2018, when you would still be clowned for using the app.
I have never felt such genuine human interactions in an online space before. And just listening to the the song "Need 2" by pinegrove, thinking back to the pinegrove shuffle, most everyone on the app agrees that, that trend was the most human thing you can do, when you're feeling down, you dance, when you dont know what to do in your life? You can dance. Were you just happy to be alive? You could dance.
There is beauty in the simplicity of the dance. Nothing fancy like the other trends on the app, no precise hand movements, just you throwing your body weight back and forth while flailing your arms. You dont even have to do it on beat. Watching that some people did it to just hop on the trend and the videos still had the same emotions to it, but my favorite were the ones I saw where in the caption they'd say that this was their first video they'd ever posted, and how they were just drawn to making a dance video just from how much they enjoyed it, and sometimes they'd give reasons they are doing the dance. To forget about past mistakes or to show their happiness, in a way it was their version of expressing themselves, their emotions just out there.
I was never good a socializing irl but tiktok made me feel like i was normal for once I could share thing's, things I wouldn't ever openly admit to liking irl, and it made me feel safe, and appreciated.
I have made so many friends off of tiktok with common interests as me, something no other app has done for me. This app have literaly molded me, my humor, the shows i watch, the music i listen to, the types of people i like to be around, my belife system, how i look at the world, Its actually hard for me to imagine my life without it in my day to day.
I catch myself thinking like a king of a great empire saying "demise will never fall apon us" not knowing what other outside forces can wreak havoc, be it a pleage, famon, an algorithm that it is steeling my data and giving it to a foreign "enemy."
When tiktok will eventually fade, and it will, especially giving current events, if not completly gone, than it will be completly changed just like how twitter did after it was bought out, I hate to admit it but i am scared for that day to come.
Congrats on 1 year!
Here here! 🎂
genuinely mean this: couldn’t have happened without you. thank you for being in my corner!
I love the way you framed this, dialogue and video wise.
ha! and aw, thank you!
I almost lost your channel after remembering some awesome UI video you did without subscribing. I didn’t know what to search for but another video of yours popped up and I’m always glad to see your thoughtful vids.
omg! so glad to have you back :) thanks for watching and let me know if there’s anything else you’re interested in me covering!
I never used tiktok, I stopped using twitter, no threads or anything, I’ve been pretty absent on Instagram, even though I’m a full time photographer.
I will say I do miss being able to share things I’m working on with people who can relate to those things. But I think why I’m burnt out on social media is I’d rather be doing the things I love, then getting love for what I’m doing. Once that shift happened, it just all felt very fabricated. The reason tiktok can be the biggest thing and then feel dead is no one loves creating and managing community, they are just lonely, and lonely is the new death. The reason why I think RUclips is the exception is because we know it’s a job and u gotta dedicate everything to it. You gotta love it. TikTok… no one had to love.
love this. so good to see you in the comment section again! 🫶
i’m curious about why you think tiktok never sustained love in the same way?
@@uncoverage great question! I think it has to do with the same thing that made it so popular: the algorithm. The algorithm on TikTok incentivizes you to look at random people, rather than your “favorites” or “following” and doesn’t push profiles content over again but rather new accounts with similar content. So you end up not falling in love with a person but a topic. Also, just like AI chatbot output, it can lead to a feeling of a robotic/soul-less experience. One last one I’ll add to explain why it might be the algorithm is how tiktok values watch time overall per topic vs per creator. So you see tons of people content from tons of popular accounts and it doesn’t feel like any of them are different than the other so the creator isn’t memorable (especially when it’s the same sound and topic over and over)
Incredible video!!!! I remember discovering your channel during the vision pro hype and being amazed by the camerawork and editing. (It’s only gotten better over the past year!) Congrats on a year of making videos, it’s definitely something worth celebrating.
Same
thank you so much for watching - and stay tuned for more Vision Pro content soon 😈
I never really used TikTok, cause I knew from the beginning that it’s highly addictive and I understood that it was highly manipulated. It abuses people.
seriously. abuse is an apt term, and is why i use the word “domination” in my monologue there at the end!
Really good writing in this video, and great music choices to go alongside. Nice essay work!
thank you! fun fact: almost every song in this video was one someone proclaimed as the “end credits song” in the last days before the ban.
Well written and well produced, subscribed.
thank you!!!
Good looking American dude casually talks about the most mundane experience a person is capable of having. 1M views
so you think i’m cute
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dude i loved your work at collagehumour
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Rare video that goes to "favorites" folder of mine. Especially because of the last words about love.
😭❤ an honor. also - if you like those closing words, anything by bell hooks is worth a read!
How do I become as good at speaking as you are?
aw, well first, i still feel like i have such a long way to go! but also: practice makes possible!
thanks for this video
thank you for watching!
Wow, do you and I have a lot in common. The first 60 secs could be describing me as of a few months ago. A TikTok "vlog" last summer was my return to creative video work after a 10 year hiatus. I'd love to know your thoughts
no way. well, welcome to the experiment in creativity :)
and sorry, my thoughts on what?
@@uncoverage oh on my TikTok video! The one that returned me to creating more regularly again. I reuploaded it here on YT. It's my channel trailer and it's about my social bio always containing "Please don't suffer."
thanks
thank you!
good video c:
thank you :)
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Cant believe its been a year of following you! Love the growth of the content, looking forward to seeing where uncoverage goes next 👍🫡
a year and a few months
and on this video, what a wonderful use of need to to reflect on the death of what once was in twitter, vine, and now tiktok. It will be interesting to see what the next loss of town square is, and whether we can continue to laugh in the face of it, i think at this point its the only thing we can do.
well i can’t thank you enough for sticking with me. looking forward to having you here!
@@thomasquigi completely agree :)