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Lily Alexandre

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TikTok sludge is overwhelming, uninteresting, and almost impossible to stop watching. How did a genre everyone hates take over the algorithm?

Sources: Guy Debord – The Society of the Spectacle Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer – The Culture Industry Something Is Wrong on the Internet – New York Magazine – Inside the Strange and Slightly Creepy World of Surprise Egg Videos https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/… YouTube Kids availability https://support.google.com/youtubekid… YouTube Kids manual channel approval: https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/for… YouTube’s Content ID Meta’s copyright detection https://variety.com/2018/digital/news… How the Framing In ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Keeps the Viewer Oriented in a Chaotic World https://nofilmschool.com/2015/05/how-… In Her Own Time: An Interview with Chantal Akerman https://www.artforum.com/print/200404… – Media used (not an exhaustive list): Opening Elsa animation    • Queen & Princess Part 28 (Season 1) -…   Surprise egg video    • KidCity Opens Avengers Play-doh Surpr…   Soap-cutting    • 1 HOUR ASMR. Soap cubes only. Very sa…   Minecraft parkour    • 1 hour 20 minutes of relaxing Minecra…   Cryptoland    • Cryptoland [Original video]   Volksgeist’s video on Yeat (this is the original version)    • The Insane Rise of YEAT   This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is the Massage    • This Is Marshall McLuhan – The Medium…   How To Be Ninja ​​   • How to be Ninja   Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1976) Columbus (2017) – “This is content production in the age of algorithmic discovery — even if you’re a human, you have to end up impersonating the machine.” – James Bridle, “Something is wrong on the internet”