{"id":5305,"date":"2022-04-09T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T07:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/tiktok-five-of-the-uks-favourite-videos\/"},"modified":"2022-04-09T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T07:36:00","slug":"tiktok-five-of-the-uks-favourite-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/tiktok-five-of-the-uks-favourite-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok: five of the UK\u2019s favourite videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlikely stars, unexpected stories and, of course, a silly video of a pet<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/08\/the-rise-of-tiktok-why-facebook-is-worried-about-the-social-app\">The rise of TikTok: why Facebook is worried about the social app<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@nathanevanss\/video\/6910995345421962498\">Former postman Nathan Evans\u2019 rendition of Wellerman<\/a>, a 19th-century folk song about the whaling trade, went viral during the Covid lockdown in the first half of last year and single-handedly revived the sea shanty. The 27-year-old Scotsman, who now has more than 1.5 million followers on TikTok, went on to be picked up by Polydor and had a No 1 in the UK singles chart.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/apr\/09\/tiktok-five-of-the-uks-favourite-videos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7df8c0b8b2d9c007dc9173217c3486cda65edef3\/0_436_2625_1575\/master\/2625.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bcf70dcc65c08b4ec94cbc8beeac06f3\" title=\"TikTok: five of the UK\u2019s favourite videos\" \/>Unlikely stars, unexpected stories and, of course, a silly video of a pet<br \/>\nThe rise of TikTok: why Facebook is worried about the social app<br \/>\nFormer postman Nathan Evans\u2019 rendition of Wellerman, a 19th-century folk song about the whaling trade, went viral during the Covid lockdown in the first half of last year and single-handedly revived the sea shanty. The 27-year-old Scotsman, who now has more than 1.5 million followers on TikTok, went on to be picked up by Polydor and had a No 1 in the UK singles chart. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlikely stars, unexpected stories and, of course, a silly video of a pet The rise of TikTok: why Facebook is worried about the social app Former postman Nathan Evans\u2019 rendition of Wellerman, a 19th-century folk song about the whaling trade, went viral during the Covid lockdown in the first half of last year and single-handedly &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/09\/tiktok-five-of-the-uks-favourite-videos\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TikTok: five of the UK\u2019s favourite videos<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5306,"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\/5305"}],"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=5305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}