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TikTok sludge is overwhelming, uninteresting, and almost impossible to stop watching. How did a genre everyone hates take over the algorithm?
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Sources:
Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle
Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer – The Culture Industry
Something Is Wrong on the Internet @jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2
New York Magazine – Inside the Strange and Slightly Creepy World of Surprise Egg Videos
YouTube Kids availability
YouTube Kids manual channel approval:
YouTube’s Content ID
Meta’s copyright detection
How the Framing In ’Mad Max: Fury Road’ Keeps the Viewer Oriented in a Chaotic World
In Her Own Time: An Interview with Chantal Akerman
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Media used (not an exhaustive list):
Opening Elsa animation
Surprise egg video
Soap-cutting
Minecraft parkour
Cryptoland
Volksgeist’s video on Yeat (this is the original version)
This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage
How To Be Ninja
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976)
Columbus (2017)
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“This is content production in the age of algorithmic discovery — even if you’re a human, you have to end up impersonating the machine.“ – James Bridle, “Something is wrong on the internet“
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