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19Feb

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TikTok Marketing 101

When pop feeling Taylor Swift introduced her single"Me" in April 2019, the tune went viral instantly. It Includes Brenden Urie of Stress! At The Disco and the music, the movie is among the both of them dancing and singing at a kaleidoscope of light colors. Soon after the launch, Swift's TikTok accounts posted a clip in the movie using all the Hashtag, #AnotherLikeMe, and it is a lyric in the song. "Show us the very best re-creation of the dancing, utilize MEdancechallenge, and we'll locate our favs," the accounts posted. A week after, #AnotherLikeMe had obtained more than 3 million viewpoints. Also, #Medancechallenge had obtained over 500,000 perspectives on TikTok. It ended up being a promotion triumph for Swift. If you are not sure yet why and how to adopt this humorous and irreverent ...

14Dec

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What Is ‘The Ick’? Another TikTok Trend

Raquel Peel, University of Southern Queensland “The ick”, much discussed on TikTok and Instagram lately, is where attraction to a current or potential partner is suddenly flipped to a feeling of disgust. It’s often triggered in an instant, social media users say, by witnessing some kind of turn-off – a bad dance move, a grating laugh, or an off-putting eating style. So what might be behind “the ick”? Are you letting ‘the ick’ undermine your chances in love? One possibility is this is a self-defensive mechanism or strategy to protect against relationship failure, fear of commitment, fear of intimacy, or rejection sensitivity. Models of relationship counselling practice explain attraction is a “flip flop” phenomenon, where the thing that attracts you to someone today can be the same th...

Sex, Drugs And TikTok: Keeping Young People Safe Needs A Mature Response

10Dec

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Sex, Drugs And TikTok: Keeping Young People Safe Needs A Mature Response

Isabelle Volpe, UNSW and Clare Southerton, UNSW You may have read recently that TikTok allegedly “serves up” sex and drug videos to minors. Media reports have described the video-sharing platform, which is designed predominantly for young people, as an “addiction machine” that promotes harmful content. In an investigation, reporters at the Wall Street Journal created 31 bot accounts on TikTok, each programmed to interact only with particular themes of content. Many of the bots were registered as being aged 13-15, including one programmed with an interest in “drugs and drug use”, which was ultimately shown 569 videos related to drugs. The investigation sought to better understand how the app’s algorithm selects videos for users. The workings of these kinds of algorithms are an industry s...

Teens Use Viral Trend TikTok To Speak Out About Their #MeToo Sexual Harassment Experiences

14Dec

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Teens Use Viral Trend TikTok To Speak Out About Their #MeToo Sexual Harassment Experiences

A recent TikTok video that has been liked by almost half a million people encourages girls to record themselves putting one finger down for every time they have been sent unsolicited dick pics, begged for nudes, catcalled, repeatedly asked out after already saying no, and forced to do something sexual when they didn’t want to. Similar videos about sexual assault posted by young women became popular in 2020. The new video is aimed at teens and focuses on sexual harassment. By calling attention to how common sexual harassment is for teen girls, the “Put a finger down: Sexual harassment edition” video has become the 2021 TikTok teen version of the #MeToo movement of 2017. This trend brings together two nearly universal realities in the lives of teen girls: the ubiquitous presence of social ...