Time spent on TikTok was significantly reduced this week due to spending most of last weekend outside in the Snow. Throughout the rest of the week though my feed was dominated by alternative heating survival methods and footage from people suffering through the Texas Polar Vortex. I chose to not include any of them here because it didn’t feel right alongside the rest of the content. I do recommend having a look at hashtags to do with Texas and the current crisis residents there are facing. TikTok has been a good source to view first-hand experiences in such an intimate way that is just not fully captured on the News or other social media platforms. This feels important during a time with such a polarized & volatile political landscape.
Onto the content.
This week I reached my daily upload limit on YouTube! Hope you enjoy!
Weird Mushroom Content
It all started with this video:
And this commentary on it:
and THEN mushroom ritual would not stop showing up on my feed in various forms or via friends sending it to me:
Perfect Matches
Paired with a fun, slightly cult-like dance, this perfect match trend started popping up on my feed within the past couple days. It was fun to go through the hashtag #perfectmatch and the audio used in the video to find some good examples.
Cats were involved…
Supportive families…
Coworkers…
and siblings ending the family bloodline…
Hot Dog Tea
This is extremely cursed so I had to share it.
Ketchup
Trucking
I enjoy her enthusiasm for truck driving.
Silly Goose
I have to apologize for including this one. It made me uncomfortable and I kept seeing people reacting, re-enacting and roasting it. The comments on the original were turned off so I hope people weren’t too mean.
The original:
A reaction to it:
Congratulations from The Orange County Clerk’s Office
Videos from this account kept appearing on my feed this week, and were also sent to me by several people. This is the perfect example of someone being responsible for uploading videos with little awareness of the platform, but with very well meaning intentions. It also appears that they somehow uploaded all of their drafts, either that or it is extremely high quality satire.
another one but sideways!
And of course, they had to try a singing version…
Children’s YouTube is off the rails
Thanks for checking out this week’s edition of Night School.
Mushroom YouTube is very relaxing... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTXP5BRecHpwa7_sFbbyMng