The subject fascinates as much as it worries.
We had barely gotten used to Facebook when a new algorithm appeared on our smartphones, TikTok.
An invention that has perhaps already passed us by.
Cooking recipes, exchanges between Harry Potter fans and even political activism... It's an application that resembles a Wild West of content for everyone over 25 years old.
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Fortunately, the documentary
TikTok, boom,
also available on MyCanal, is educational and allows you to understand this complex subject in its entirety.
It gives a voice to journalists but also to content creators.
Like Spencer X, Beatboxer.
Online, he posts videos where he imitates percussion and noises with his mouth.
When one of his contents reaches 3 million views, the young man says to himself
“Oh my God, they love me so I decided to post more and success is launched”
, he testifies in the documentary .
A meteoric rise
Indeed, success on TikTok can be dazzling, like the rise of the platform which quickly overtook the very powerful Facebook.
More than two billion downloads of the application worldwide since April 2020. Mark Zuckeberg is still shaking.
From the tremendous creativity of Generation Z to the excesses of spying on our personal data, the advent of TikTok has enough to fuel paranoia, which is unfortunately justified.
Because like Frankenstein's monster, the creature has escaped its creator.
Users are indeed competing in ingenuity to circumvent the censorship of the Chinese regime, the father of TikTok.
A form of resistance to artificial intelligence, the new Eldorado of world powers.