Teens Got Dragged For Making TikToks About The Right Because People Failed To Realize It Was Political Satire – By Ikran Dahir (Buzzfeed) / July 17 2020
“We were shocked by the amount of people who took a screenshot or [shared the video] to Twitter or Instagram without looking at any of the other posts.”
The teenage owners of a TikTok account called POCRepublicans found themselves being criticized by people on both the right and the left this week after screenshots of their videos went viral on Twitter — forcing them to explain that their content is satirical.
The account’s creator, Sarah Ma, a 17-year-old student in New York, told BuzzFeed News that the people featured on the account are prominent members of political TikTok.
“We even have a few members from the Communist Hype House,” she said, referencing a similar collective of content creators. “And one of the original members of what used to be the Liberal Hype House on TikTok.”
Ma and some of her collaborators believe there’s a genuine divide between people who are familiar with the type of humor on TikTok — enabled in part by how the app functions — and that of other platforms, which many people are already used to.
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