105: TikTok, Cults, & Conspiracies (w/Abbie Richards)
Conspirituality
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The Rise of the Tick Talk Platform
Tiktok has led to multiple viral trends, lucrative opportunities for influence or marketing. It can be politically impactful in novel ways, like when user pranked the 20 20 tulsa campaign rally of donald trump at a 19 thousand capacity arena by flooding the event with requests for hundreds of thousands of tickets ahead of time. There's also been a trend of so called profile picture cults, which exhorts users to show their loyalty to particular influencers. This similarly generates an intoxicating sense of pactful collective action. In a world of many tiktock cults, only one can stand ot the top, and that is us, the step chickens people will, you
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