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Here are some memes that are popular at the time of writing:
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It’s the act of reaching for the biggest-common-content-denominator in a vast pool of videos whose logic you can’t see. If you’re trying to make a popular video, it makes sense to stick to one of the Mad Libs formulas that dominate the For You page on a given day. The opacity of the For You algorithm has a huge impact on TikTok. “A lot of that is due to these artificial constraints platforms place on the type of content that gets created.” “Across different platforms, you think of the different types of cultures that have emerged,” Becca Lewis, an internet culture researcher with Data and Society, said in a phone call. That’s a large part of why POVs are successful: they grab the viewer’s attention by pulling them into the plot of the video. Most TikToks only have 15 seconds to engage a viewer and maximize their reach on people’s For You pages. TikToker who identified himself as Adam, told Motherboard, “I think it makes it very personal to the viewer, because the video is through their eyes.”Īdam made a POV captioned “#pov you dont have a lunch at school and i offer you my entire lunch because i want you to be okay.” In this video, the viewer is a student that doesn’t have lunch. The traditional TikTok POV is shot from a first-person perspective, making the viewers the main character of the video.
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These videos often have little in common aside from the significant role that they assign to the viewer. They create scenarios that range from horror, to historical fiction, to teenage fantasies, to the completely absurd. At any given moment, there’s maybe five to ten sound bites-which could be songs, or original audio recorded by users-that are accumulating the majority of the views, sometimes hundreds of thousands in just hours.Įnter TikTok's latest genre: point-of-view videos, or POVs. Most of TikTok is like Mad Libs: the specifics of the joke differ, but the punchline is always the same.