Hello traveler…have ye heard about TikTok Dabloons?
featuring feline correspondents reporting on the crashing value of dabloons, naming and shaming the accounts of users “giving away” irresponsible sums of the fictitious currency. Councils were formed to regulate the market, and now there are secret anti-dabloon capitalist rebellions forming to overthrow the system. And all of this happened in the span of just three days.
The evolution of TikTok’s current viral gimmick has vaguely started to mirror real-world events outside of the platform — namely the ongoing financial crisis and crashing cryptocurrency market. This is likely unintentional, stemming from financially literate users building on posts that give away unreasonable quantities of dabloons, but it’s amusingly managed to simulate a real financial disaster without any of its discourse.
Given TikTok lacks the latter quality in addition to being a video-first platform, it should have been incredibly difficult for this kind of activity to take off. And yet, TikTok’s algorithm has uniquely allowed for a crowdsourced game — one where the platform itself controls how often you play. User-generated content controls what happens to you, and you control to what extent you want to play along. This is a cultural phenomenon that couldn’t really happen on other social media platforms.
Without a centralized hub to post in, TikTok users just roleplay out the specific experience from a given video within its comment section.At least for now anyway. TikTok trends tend to die as quickly as they appear due to how rapidly content spreads across the platform, but I’m enjoying this resurgence of social media roleplay while it lasts.
Outside of my fantasy dabloon fiefdom, I feel fatigued by current social media platforms: I’ve grown weary of Twitter’s cliquey atmosphere and antagonizing personalities. Tumblr has a much smaller active community than in its heyday, and let’s be honest, nobody isusing Facebook to socialize anymore.
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