TikTok

“How are these vaccine TikToks fooling so many people?”

“Imagine The Smiths or Joy Division making TikToks to promote their music. Think about Nick Cave or Joni Mitchell, and just imagine them negotiating with this bullshit.”

““Are there any volunteers who would like to make their first video in front of everybody?” The first person who raised his hand was a dad in his late forties who had been a participant in our training school. I remember this guy because earlier in the training he had told me that his son had told him, “Dad, whatever you do, don’t start a TikTok.””

“If you’ve never been on TikTok, we don’t recommend you start a TikTok just to promote your campaign.”

“There’s nothing worse, after all, than male mutton dressed as lamb; or an old-style peacock dressed like a TikTok-ing Gen Z.”

“He got up and performed the first verse, and then walked through the door of the rotating, dioramic set — part Michel Gondry music video; part high school musical — and: It was BTS! Off they went: this black American whiz kid and these seven South Korean superstars TikTokked together.”