No, in fact, this is not Charli D’amelio, its your average PLP student writing about TikTok. You read right, today is all about TikTok.This app has taken the world and now Seycove’s PLP 9 by storm, and we’ve taken on the challenge of learning about it, its characteristics and how it can tie into nationalism! Sounds pretty complex? I’ll break it down for you. Our driving question is about how we can use memes to comment on the significance and consequences of nationalism. Still sounds crazy? Richard Dawkins wrote a book in 197, arguing that the concept of Darwinian Evolution can be applied to, basically, memes. Darwinian evolution is the concept of natural selection, the ones with the stronger genes get passes down and live on, and the weaker ones die. A meme can be described as a unit of behaviour passes through person to person, each adding their own twist to it. TikTok comes into the play here, because even though the sound, audio, or music is the same, each user puts their twist on it. That is why you can scroll for hours and never get bored, because there’s always something new to watch.
Take this sound for an example: “Sunday Best” by Surfaces
It has been modified a bit, but making a video to this sound essentially means you are showing your “2019 Rewind” and each person shows highlights from their 2019. Every video is different, because each person is sharing their life and experiences that no one else can take from them.
All this talk about TikTok, why don’t we try for ourselves? Well thats what we did, we got into groups and tried 3 popular trends on TikTok for ourselves.
#1: Dance Trend!
#2: Creative Effects!
#3: Memes!
How do you think we did? I think we are pretty close to making a PLP Hype House!
~Malaika
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