{"id":9469,"date":"2023-03-30T12:38:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T10:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/why-am-i-crying-over-this-how-corecore-tiktok-videos-caught-the-mood-of-gen-z\/"},"modified":"2023-03-30T12:38:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T10:38:39","slug":"why-am-i-crying-over-this-how-corecore-tiktok-videos-caught-the-mood-of-gen-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/30\/why-am-i-crying-over-this-how-corecore-tiktok-videos-caught-the-mood-of-gen-z\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Why am I crying over this?\u2019: how corecore TikTok videos caught the mood of Gen Z"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sad clips from films, TV shows and TikTok are being spliced together over melancholy music \u2013 and they\u2019re raising a smile among hopeless young people<\/p>\n

Jimmy Nguyen, an 18-year-old student, saw his first \u201ccorecore\u201d video on TikTok in January. He can\u2019t remember which one it was \u2013 there are so many of them now. But he says it was typical of this new trend of video: other TikTok videos, celebrity or podcaster interviews, TV show and film clips spliced together over some sad or ambient music. They\u2019re depressing, full of existential dread and usually and always broadly speaking on the theme of disconnection and alienation. Nguyen initially thought, like other users, that these videos were a joke. They\u2019re crudely edited and the name in itself is a sarcastic reference to the proliferation of micro-trends<\/a> emerging from TikTok since 2020. But he was soon staying up late at night in his bedroom making corecore of his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I was making my first video I started to really see myself expressing how I was feeling and it felt relieving because I didn\u2019t have anyone to talk to and explaining my emotions is hard,\u201d he tells me. \u201cBut that video felt like an exit or gateway to those feelings.\u201d In it, clips of Lee Jung-jae, the lead in Squid Game smiling broadly and falsely at the camera, someone recounting how in school kids would ask which super power you\u2019d want out of invisibility and flying but he says \u201cI\u2019m already invisible\u201d and Jake Gyllenhall in Stronger <\/em>(2017) screaming \u201cWhy do you even want me? I\u2019m such a fuck up!\u201d run into each other over a morose Arcade Fire track. Now Nguyen makes these videos in an attempt to help people, he says, to let them know that they\u2019re not alone.<\/p>\n

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\nSad clips from films, TV shows and TikTok are being spliced together over melancholy music \u2013 and they\u2019re raising a smile among hopeless young people
\nJimmy Nguyen, an 18-year-old student, saw his first \u201ccorecore\u201d video on TikTok in January. He can\u2019t remember which one it was \u2013 there are so many of them now. But he says it was typical of this new trend of video: other TikTok videos, celebrity or podcaster interviews, TV show and film clips spliced together over some sad or ambient music. They\u2019re depressing, full of existential dread and usually and always broadly speaking on the theme of disconnection and alienation. Nguyen initially thought, like other users, that these videos were a joke. They\u2019re crudely edited and the name in itself is a sarcastic reference to the proliferation of micro-trends emerging from TikTok since 2020. But he was soon staying up late at night in his bedroom making corecore of his own.
\n\u201cAs I was making my first video I started to really see myself expressing how I was feeling and it felt relieving because I didn\u2019t have anyone to talk to and explaining my emotions is hard,\u201d he tells me. \u201cBut that video felt like an exit or gateway to those feelings.\u201d In it, clips of Lee Jung-jae, the lead in Squid Game smiling broadly and falsely at the camera, someone recounting how in school kids would ask which super power you\u2019d want out of invisibility and flying but he says \u201cI\u2019m already invisible\u201d and Jake Gyllenhall in Stronger (2017) screaming \u201cWhy do you even want me? I\u2019m such a fuck up!\u201d run into each other over a morose Arcade Fire track. Now Nguyen makes these videos in an attempt to help people, he says, to let them know that they\u2019re not alone. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sad clips from films, TV shows and TikTok are being spliced together over melancholy music \u2013 and they\u2019re raising a smile among hopeless young people Jimmy Nguyen, an 18-year-old student, saw his first \u201ccorecore\u201d video on TikTok in January. He can\u2019t remember which one it was \u2013 there are so many of them now. But …<\/p>\n

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