tiktok-tachi

you’re not allowed to explain memes unless your last name is kotonoha or you can also dedicate yourself this fully to using voiceroid exclusively to make your explainers. if you dare to monetize them, I will mutter disapporving subtweets about you that you will only find by ego searching.

they’re closing in on 500 of these meme explainers, which should come as soon as like next week seeing as they’ve made over half of them in the last four months. are they basically repackaging atwiki and knowyourememe articles for a casual audience? sort of, except that some of these examples are far too obscure to be anything but original research. they linked to the original kisaragi station thread, and I legitimately can’t remember if I’ve ever heard the chinatsu shirt guy’s voice since he’s usually fixed exclusively to a four koma format. apparently it’s also been accepted that all my fellas was inspired by a japanese indie.

shorts are not inherently a corrosive format, but the time that I have spent looking at them has almost always been regrettable. “engagement bait” and incorrect aspect ratios seem to rule over every platform that has adopted them, which has seemingly become all of them, and no amount of culling the feed will stop you from seeing them. any well-tuned recommendation engine, though, knows to surprise you with just enough of a regular cadence that you’ll want to come back and keep scrolling even as you recognize that an hour just melted away in your hands. youtube shorts up until this point today thought I should only see content chefs that don’t know how to melt cheese set to hitomania, which is catchy enough that I couldn’t help letting them play through at least one loop, but now they’ve taken away my ability to translate comments and have apparently placed me in the cool kids demographic bucket that serves up these sweethearts. through the content desert, there is always an oasis.