The United States has argued that TikTok is a contemporary Trojan Horse, allowing ByteDance, TikTok’s China-based parent company, access to the private data of American citizens. Pakistan has banned TikTok on the grounds that its user-generated content is immoral. This flood of attention and content has brought the platform under intense global scrutiny. TikTok’s base, the fastest growing of all social media services, has exceeded a billion users. On TikTok, these performances range from lackluster to expert-though either can lead to virality, and that is the point.
After skipping a generation of millennials, the choreographed dance now resurfaces as mainstream with Gen Z. The scene hearkens back to a time when the public happened to know specific dances-a cultural touchstone that feels twentieth century (think the hustle, hand jive, the running man). The dancers’ casual nature is reminiscent of the trio in Godard’s Bande á Part, Anna Karina between the two men doing the infamous Madison line dance. The dances are deceivingly achievable, as though one could step into the routines without much thought. Unlike the expansive style of a trained dancer, their movements are tight and tapered.
Dancing teenagers all over the world are straining to fit the narrow dimensions of their phone cameras.
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