* very drunk single women talking about how no one loves them and fishing for comments from wackos telling them how beautiful they are
* working class people streaming their entire shifts. Something mesmerizing about watching a guy knocking down trees, a smart ass machinist talking smack while operating a lathe, 4 Uzbeks putting running shoes together, or timber being milled into boards in a very non-OSHA compliant plant in Indonesia.
* micro talk shows where only 50 people are watching 4 talking heads who don’t know each other debate politics. These ironically are better than a lot of cable news since you actually get people who have wildly different views talking to each other, and they will take the time to resolve factual disagreements on Wikipedia between making points.
When the Canadian trucker protest was going on the media mostly did such a bad job of reporting, but if you dig around on tik tok live it was easy to find the guys in the lead trucks chatting with their friends and families back home about how things were going and how much they loved “driving through this beautiful country”. Sometimes I would be one of 70 people watching. Same goes for the early streams out of Ukraine. The ease and quality of mobile streaming on tiktok feels like a huge revolution in social media that’s just getting started. Real McLuhan global village stuff developing.
* very drunk single women talking about how no one loves them and fishing for comments from wackos telling them how beautiful they are
* working class people streaming their entire shifts. Something mesmerizing about watching a guy knocking down trees, a smart ass machinist talking smack while operating a lathe, 4 Uzbeks putting running shoes together, or timber being milled into boards in a very non-OSHA compliant plant in Indonesia.
* micro talk shows where only 50 people are watching 4 talking heads who don’t know each other debate politics. These ironically are better than a lot of cable news since you actually get people who have wildly different views talking to each other, and they will take the time to resolve factual disagreements on Wikipedia between making points.
When the Canadian trucker protest was going on the media mostly did such a bad job of reporting, but if you dig around on tik tok live it was easy to find the guys in the lead trucks chatting with their friends and families back home about how things were going and how much they loved “driving through this beautiful country”. Sometimes I would be one of 70 people watching. Same goes for the early streams out of Ukraine. The ease and quality of mobile streaming on tiktok feels like a huge revolution in social media that’s just getting started. Real McLuhan global village stuff developing.