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Collected Item: “Tik Tok”

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Tik Tok

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Tik Tok

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

I resisted joining Tik Tok, and working on the archive I saw that some of the submissions were from this application, but I wasn't interested in learning a new platform. Then, when NPR started reporting that President Donald J Trump was going to ban downloading the app, I decided to download it and see what it was like. It's a funny amalgamation of short videos, sometimes music, that ranges from bizarre to hilarious. I keep seeing videos from the member TreyTV who does hilarious impressions of DJT, this one is a spin off the Idaho man who make a Tik Tok to a Fleetwood Mac song while drinking Ocean Spray. I have to say, as bleak as thing are right now, it feels so great to laugh.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

humor, President Donald J Trump, Fleetwood Mac, Tik Tok

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

@_TreyTV_

Give this story a date.

2020-10-12
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