Explaining the Best and Weirdest TikTok Trends

Culture Study Podcast

Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 789 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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TikTok is filled with wonders. It’s SO weird. It can make you feel like the algorithm is telling you something you don’t even realize about yourself….or it serve you a whole bunch of cyst draining videos. In order to answer your questions about WTF is happening in your feed, I knew I needed a weird internet aficionado who also understands the way our tech platforms actually work. I needed Katie Notopoulos. Join us as we talk about the parallel dimension that is TikTok Live, the difference between Reels and TikTok content, those bizarre “bugs all over me” videos, nail tapping ASMR, the clean girl aesthetic, and SO MUCH MORE.Join the ranks of paid subscribers and get bonus content, access to the discussion threads, ad-free episodes, and the knowledge that you're supporting an indie pod trying to make its way in the world. If you're already a subscriber-- thank you! Join us in the discussion thread for this episode! Got a question or idea for a future episode? Let us know here.Show Notes:Read all of Katie’s great and weird reporting over at Business InsiderFollow Katie’s weird reels on InstagramSome Chainsaw TestingCLEAN GIRL AESTHETICMORE CLEAN GIRLSICK ROPE CUTTINGThe vaguely Patrick Bateman ASMR clean living guy on InstagramA classic in the hoof cleaning genreMy favorite sheep herding dog guyOne of the fake bug videos (I PROMISE IT’S FAKE)We’re currently looking for your questions for future episodes about:Why is Paul Mescal so hotSydney Sweeney (and Gen-Z Stardom)Learning to craft / make things / hobby-around-the-houseFor our continuing series on romance novels: QUEER ROMANCEArtificial Intelligence (we’re gonna see if we can figure out an actually interesting theme here, so send us your weirdest or most mind-boggling questions)Contemporary ideas of self-careBuy Nothing groups and/or the current state of the secondhand marketAnything you need advice or want musings on for the AAA segmentYou can submit them (and ideas for future eps) here (this is the subscriber-only form!)For today’s discussion: What’s good and weird in your TikTok feed right now? What do you see as the difference between Reels and TikToks?

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0:44.5	Okay, thanks for listening and on with the show. TikTok is in such a weird flux moment right now
0:53.4	that I feel like my for you page when I opened TikTok
0:56.5	feels a lot different than it did just a few months ago. First of all, I feel like everyone's
1:02.4	kind of noticed this that it's just the first six things you see feel like they're all ads or
1:09.8	like TikTok shop.
1:11.2	That's not the kind of content where I'm like, wow, this is exactly what I want to see in the way that TikTok used to feel where it was like, wow, I can't believe my 4U page is so tailored to me.
1:21.0	Mine really changes because I have managed to create this interesting relationship with TikTok.
1:26.9	I think because it's on the third
1:28.2	page of my phone screen where I only really look at it like once a week. And oftentimes it's because
1:33.4	I fall down a rabbit hole for a piece that I'm working on or for like a podcast or something like
1:39.0	that. And so my page will dramatically change. So obviously when it was Bama Rush Time,
1:47.0	it was just like all sorority content,
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