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TikTok in prison

Recode Daily

Recode

Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

What ‘prison TikTok’ tells us about the lives of incarcerated people. Featuring: Louise Matsakis -- Staff Writer at WIRED (@lmatsakis) Nazgol Ghandnoosh -- Senior Research Analyst at The Sentencing Project (@NazgolG) Adnan Khan -- Executive Director at Re:Store Justice (@akhan1437) Links to resources: Behind Bars, but Still Posting on TikTok The Sentencing Project Re:Store Justice Host: Arielle Duhaime-Ross (@adrs), host and lead reporter of Reset About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Always read the label. There's a meme that's pretty common on Tik-Tok. It's about leaving a part of yourself behind, temporarily, while you go to a new place.

0:56.0

So, you know, it might be like you're going to a party and it's like my anxiety or something or like me going to my job at a tech company and the thing I'm leaving behind is like my social justice beliefs.

1:09.6

In each video, Tik-Toc users write the characteristics they're leaving behind and then they put them up on screen.

1:15.8

Then they lip-sink these words.

1:18.8

I'll see you after the function.

1:23.0

Louise Matzakis is a staff writer for Wired.

1:26.0

She described this meme to me because she recently came across a version of it on

1:29.8

Tik-Toc that surprised her. The video shows a man carrying what looks like a bundle of clothes.

1:36.4

So it looks like he is like in some sort of maybe like storage room.

1:40.7

The walls are gray and white cinder block so he's clearly in some kind of institution.

1:46.1

And there are characteristics that he puts on screen, the ones he says he wants to leave behind.

1:51.3

My gay mannerisms when I'm going into prison.

1:53.8

Huh, okay, so he's basically saying that he's going to leave behind his more so-called

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