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0 pointsjatari1mo ago0 comments

You can use youtube and never come across a "meme" like that.

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I used TikTok and also never came across a meme like that. Or maybe I did once or twice, I just quickly swiped away (or if something I’m not interested in is shown repeatedly I click not interested and it’s gone at least for a long time). If you’re shown the same meme from 20 different people chances are you just kept watching them, maybe with disapproval, but your device can’t read your brainwaves yet so the service just thinks you’re super interested.

And YouTube also had those stupid challenges with everyone doing the same stupid shit before TikTok even existed.

nobody99991mo ago

>And YouTube also had those stupid challenges with everyone doing the same stupid shit before TikTok even existed.

And before the transistor, we had flagpole sitters[0] and dance marathons[1] and dozens of other memes, just in the 20th century.

This kind of thing is nothing new, and has been going on for as long we've been us. Now this is accessible to a larger and more varied audience, not just those who are nearby.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_sitting

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_marathon

kelipso1mo ago

It’s a culture thing I guess. Overlay videos of other videos and the memeing videos has been in TikTok since the beginning. Youtube would probably ban the former under a copyright strike or something.

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