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Collected Item: “The Quarantine Life”

Give your story a title.

The Quarantine Life

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

This is an app called Tiktok

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.

Tiktok has made a pretty big impact on my life throughout quarantine and my junior year. I got to watch videos and see new trends everyday. Whenever I was feeling down or bored I would resort to tiktok as an escape. I think seeing videos on cooking, music, etc. really helped changed my perspective of life and influenced me into cooking and listening to new music. Although, junior year so far has been difficult and stressful, Tiktok is still my escape from all the piled up school work and to feel like I am connected with the world.

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?

#tiktok4life

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

Zhang Yiming

Give this story a date.

2020-06-16T12:12:08
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