{"id":3667,"date":"2021-11-12T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/12\/a-primordial-soup-of-exploding-trends-and-memes-tiktoks-wild-world-of-video-games\/"},"modified":"2021-11-12T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T11:36:00","slug":"a-primordial-soup-of-exploding-trends-and-memes-tiktoks-wild-world-of-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/12\/a-primordial-soup-of-exploding-trends-and-memes-tiktoks-wild-world-of-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"A primordial soup of exploding trends and memes: TikTok\u2019s wild world of video games"},"content":{"rendered":"

From pastiches of stilted old animations to trash-talking pubescents meeting their match, TikTok\u2019s gaming zone is an often maddening place, full of energy, attitude \u2013 and space skullduggery<\/p>\n

Gaming culture has lived online since the internet became a thing, so it is no surprise that TikTok is now a primordial soup of video game memes. The time-honoured \u201cgreatest games of all time\u201d magazine feature lives on as clip compilations soundtracked by thrice-remixed SoundCloud rap. Streamers post highlights from their live play, from unlikely kills to spectacular rage-quit explosions. Kids post skits that make fun of their parents\u2019 dismissive attitude to games. Cosplayers dress up as game characters and jump on the latest dance craze. Trends explode for a week then disappear, like that month in 2020 when teenagers were posting clips of themselves studying to Mario Kart music.<\/p>\n

Gaming is totally native to the under-21s who power most of TikTok\u2019s content, so music, sound effects and in-jokes from video games permeate pretty much everything. Beware, though, because TikTok\u2019s audience is so extremely young, if you\u2019ve been playing games for longer than about 10 years, browsing will make you feel like Methuselah. I saw one compilation of \u201cold video games that are still fun today\u201d composed entirely of things that came out when I was in my 20s.<\/p>\n

There are some exceptionally bad opinions expressed in this ever-evolving morass of short videos, and a distressing number of entries in the disappointingly sexist \u201cgirlfriend tries to distract boyfriend from playing his video games\u201d genre, but there\u2019s good stuff too: Shelbyrenaeyt<\/a>, a 24-year-old Fortnite streamer, posts painfully amusing (or just straight-up painful) clips of all the pubescent boys she encounters in-game trying and failing to trash-talk her.<\/p>\n

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\nFrom pastiches of stilted old animations to trash-talking pubescents meeting their match, TikTok\u2019s gaming zone is an often maddening place, full of energy, attitude \u2013 and space skullduggery
\nGaming culture has lived online since the internet became a thing, so it is no surprise that TikTok is now a primordial soup of video game memes. The time-honoured \u201cgreatest games of all time\u201d magazine feature lives on as clip compilations soundtracked by thrice-remixed SoundCloud rap. Streamers post highlights from their live play, from unlikely kills to spectacular rage-quit explosions. Kids post skits that make fun of their parents\u2019 dismissive attitude to games. Cosplayers dress up as game characters and jump on the latest dance craze. Trends explode for a week then disappear, like that month in 2020 when teenagers were posting clips of themselves studying to Mario Kart music.Gaming is totally native to the under-21s who power most of TikTok\u2019s content, so music, sound effects and in-jokes from video games permeate pretty much everything. Beware, though, because TikTok\u2019s audience is so extremely young, if you\u2019ve been playing games for longer than about 10 years, browsing will make you feel like Methuselah. I saw one compilation of \u201cold video games that are still fun today\u201d composed entirely of things that came out when I was in my 20s.
\nThere are some exceptionally bad opinions expressed in this ever-evolving morass of short videos, and a distressing number of entries in the disappointingly sexist \u201cgirlfriend tries to distract boyfriend from playing his video games\u201d genre, but there\u2019s good stuff too: Shelbyrenaeyt, a 24-year-old Fortnite streamer, posts painfully amusing (or just straight-up painful) clips of all the pubescent boys she encounters in-game trying and failing to trash-talk her. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From pastiches of stilted old animations to trash-talking pubescents meeting their match, TikTok\u2019s gaming zone is an often maddening place, full of energy, attitude \u2013 and space skullduggery Gaming culture has lived online since the internet became a thing, so it is no surprise that TikTok is now a primordial soup of video game memes. …<\/p>\n

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