{"id":11759,"date":"2023-10-03T19:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/mean-girls-in-23-parts-the-rise-of-movies-and-shows-watched-on-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2023-10-03T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T17:37:41","slug":"mean-girls-in-23-parts-the-rise-of-movies-and-shows-watched-on-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/mean-girls-in-23-parts-the-rise-of-movies-and-shows-watched-on-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Mean Girls in 23 parts: the rise of movies and shows watched on TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount\u2019s release of the popular film in small clips reflects a rising trend of people watching movies on the platform<\/p>\n<p>As the oldest and baldest person to have access to a TikTok account, I usually have a pretty good idea of what sort of content I\u2019ll be served, in that it\u2019s usually equal parts animal attack videos and jet-washing tutorials. Recently, however, the algorithm threw me a curveball: a 90-second clip of the 23-year-old Nancy Meyers film What Women Want.<\/p>\n<p>It was a good scene, one where Mel Gibson listens in on Judy Greer\u2019s self-hating inner monologue and starts to see her as a true contemporary. I watched the whole thing. And, as a reward, TikTok then gave me another scene from What Women Want. And then another. And another. And over the course of a couple of days, albeit in a disjointed and non-linear manner, I had basically watched all of What Women Want. It\u2019s a good film! Sarah Paulson is in it! Who knew?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2023\/oct\/03\/movies-tv-on-tiktok-trend-mean-girls\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/05ebca54442035f9278ab05dc9bb4459601a6923\/579_390_3752_2251\/master\/3752.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e27fa89768a002b8a6bcecb0b04d583d\" title=\"Mean Girls in 23 parts: the rise of movies and shows watched on TikTok\" \/>Paramount\u2019s release of the popular film in small clips reflects a rising trend of people watching movies on the platform<br \/>\nAs the oldest and baldest person to have access to a TikTok account, I usually have a pretty good idea of what sort of content I\u2019ll be served, in that it\u2019s usually equal parts animal attack videos and jet-washing tutorials. Recently, however, the algorithm threw me a curveball: a 90-second clip of the 23-year-old Nancy Meyers film What Women Want.<br \/>\nIt was a good scene, one where Mel Gibson listens in on Judy Greer\u2019s self-hating inner monologue and starts to see her as a true contemporary. I watched the whole thing. And, as a reward, TikTok then gave me another scene from What Women Want. And then another. And another. And over the course of a couple of days, albeit in a disjointed and non-linear manner, I had basically watched all of What Women Want. It\u2019s a good film! Sarah Paulson is in it! Who knew? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount\u2019s release of the popular film in small clips reflects a rising trend of people watching movies on the platform As the oldest and baldest person to have access to a TikTok account, I usually have a pretty good idea of what sort of content I\u2019ll be served, in that it\u2019s usually equal parts animal &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/03\/mean-girls-in-23-parts-the-rise-of-movies-and-shows-watched-on-tiktok\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mean Girls in 23 parts: the rise of movies and shows watched on TikTok<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}