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I remember when it started here in India. It was one of the karaoke apps that was huge. It was mostly just like instagram videos but with karaoke and duets I guess. Then it gradually became a site with more videos like vines. It was banned in India by the brave modi govt to stop chinese infiltration as they put (but actually it was to fall in burgerland's good graces). But it still exists in different names.
There is a sort of "in your face" aspect to the karaoke shorts that I never liked. Also it's popularity makes me just automatically dislike it because of how ubiquitous it is. It was the same way for me on YouTube when AMVs were popular over a decade ago. Sometimes YouTube has some good shorts but, I never appreciate how the site pushes them on people.
Yeah the weird thing about the tiktok videos is that it is almost everywhere. No matter what pockets online it finds its way. Almost all social media have em. Singing karaoke style videos fell to the wayside and then just literally vertical long videos became flooding.
Yep. Their ubiquitousness is always off-putting to me. There's always a gimmick. And the growth of this TikTok Shop's popularity is also concerning to me. There could be quite a bit of potential to induce a terrible cycle of addictive shopping fueled by a slurry of short-form videos.
I feel like the shopping fueled by videos is already a thing.