Eat Your Crust

I’m Not On Thirst Trap TikTok (ft. Brian Xu)

Mar 3, 2021

01:14:05

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How Do You Create New Ideas for TikTok?

04:19

I'm a Nice Guy. I'll Not Be Saying New Things About People on the Internet

02:04

TikTok Creator Fund - Is That Really a Thing?

02:08

Introduction

2min

Did You Grow Up in China?

2min

How Did You Start Off on TikTok? What Kind of Content Did You Make?

2min

What Was the Half-Step in Between That?

3min

How I Learned to Make Videos on LinkedIn

2min

TikToks - How Do You Say Blank and Chinese?

1min

How Do You Create New Ideas for TikTok?

4min

How to Guess Your Height Using TikTok

2min

You Can Measure Your Body Parts, Right?

4min

10.

You Can't Tell True Full Height

3min

11.

Why Should You Care About Diversity?

3min

12.

Commenting on TikToks

3min

13.

Laugh Out Loud

3min

14.

Is There a Whole New America Out There?

4min

15.

I'm Asian and I Find This Funny

4min

16.

What Is This World of TikTok?

5min

17.

TikTok Compared to YouTube Comments?

2min

18.

Is There a Feedback Loop in the Comments?

2min

19.

Is There a Comment Filter on YouTube?

2min

20.

TikTok Career

2min

21.

I'm a Nice Guy. I'll Not Be Saying New Things About People on the Internet

2min

22.

TikTok Creator Fund - Is That Really a Thing?

2min

23.

Why Do I Look Like Asian When I Want to Look Sparkly Emoji Asian?

2min

24.

Are You Like Sparkly Asian or Cool Asian?

2min

25.

The Sparkly Asian on TikTok

3min

26.

TikTok

1min

27.

You Have a TikTok Voice?

2min

28.

Do You Have a TikTok Experience?

3min

From data scientist to TikTok star, and everything in between - Brian Xu joins us today to chat about how his data storytelling & height guessing videos went viral, how he makes sense of the various Asian-American spaces on the #fyp, and the neat little features & community aspects that make TikTok a unique platform.

Don’t miss this episode where Brian guesses OUR heights and reveals whether he’s on Thirst Trap TikTok or not 👀

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