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Collected Item: “New Methods of Storytelling Through TikTok”

Give your story a title.

New Methods of Storytelling Through TikTok

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

This is a post from the social media company TikTok and was found on TikTok after going viral with over a million views.

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.

This is a social post made by a student affected by the pandemic in the social media app TikTok. It gives a contemporary storytelling method of a student who is not experiencing normal school experience. It gives a fascinating approach of a student’s life experiencing online school due to covid.

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?

OnlineSchool, covid, TikTok, 2020, ASU, HST485

It originated from a social media app called TikTok. The post gives a sad portrait of students going through online school due directly to the pandemic.

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJa3vcMK

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

A user on TikTok named Shea Stone

Give this story a date.

2020-10-14
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