Television advertising. It might be hard to believe, but there are way more low information voters than you might imagine. TV advertising is expensive too. Jeff Jackson (NC congressman, running for NC State AG after he was gerrymandered out of Congress) has done a great job addressing this in his short videos.
I want the senate
Weird people
Bernie’s emails are worth subscribing to imo. He’s sending out stuff railing on citizens united with the tone of “yeah yeah, crazy ol Bernie on it again. Well guess what, it’s still a big fuckin problem”
Nah, no need for a conspiracy theory. Also NYT photographer got a picture of a flying bullet.
I was pretty distraught after the announcement, but within a few hours as the wave of support built, I came out of the hole and started feeling positive. So glad that the support fell behind so quickly.
Trump definitely did not fuck a couch.
Some people speculated on this from day 1 when he wasn’t posing for photos with his “bullet wound.”
Tell me the plan that gets more unified support than the current president.
I’ve literally never seen the movie and this is one of my favorite albums.
I thought patreon subs were post-billed, meaning your payment is for last months usage. Check your settings to confirm.
The video format is made for the device format where most people consume it. It’s just as annoying when someone clips a widescreen formatted video on TikTok. The ability to learn from something isn’t affected by the video being horizontal or vertical.
Have you used TikTok? How long do you think videos can last? Because they can be up to 10 minutes; plenty of time for quality content. Not to mention, many longer videos are broken into multiple smaller parts (similar to tweet threads).
To your specific point, there are some excellent WWII scholars producing TikTok content on topics such as countering Holocaust denialism.
Beyond that, there are many things people can learn more efficiently outside of long-form content. Recipes are a great example: search engine algorithms have made recipe websites a complete disaster. Literally no one wants to read (or write) about my step grand uncles 3rd cousins summer cabin, but SEO demands bloat. In a short form video, there’s not as much time for algorthmically mandated filler.
People said the exact same thing about YouTube, and people’s desires for fame. The world still turns.
All to say, like all social platforms, on TikTok there are good and bad, people of all shapes and sizes. Rest assured, people are learning on TikTok, (and YouTube, and Facebook). Yeah there’s misinformation, just like every other corner of the Internet.
Honestly, I had never made the connection until I saw posts like this. I’d say these are fairly subtle references.
My uncle had a dog for about 10 years. Took him camping every weekend and would chill out by the truck all day. No issues. One random dog came up and peed on the truck tire once. Dog said “wait what you can do that?” and for the rest of his life pissed on the truck. It was a mindvirus.