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TikTok Brainrot Is Normalizing Alt-Right Ideologies

Reynolds’ weekly column exploring songs and scenes at the intersection of music and digital culture, separating shitpost genius from shitpassé lameness. This week, Kieran investigates how nasty bigotry has wormed its way into the endless scroll of TikTok brainrot.

The Daily Dot · 8d

Marcus the Virtual Reality Worm: A brainrot prophet with dead eyes and deep lore

Marcus the Worm is a character from VRChat, the popular online virtual reality platform. He is a bizarre worm-like creature with stick-thin arms and legs whose way of speaking is confusing. Many on social media describe the worm creature as “quirky” and his deadpan language has led to folks remarking that you cannot just communicate with Marcus—you must experience him.

Mashable · Apr 15, 2023

TikTokGPT will have you questioning the meaning of virality

This is the story of one man's mission to become TikTok famous using ChatGPT ... or startups" and to use a trending hashtag related to AI. Isenberg obliged by explaining the difference between ...

Pepsi · Apr 14, 2021

Samsung #VideoSnapChallenge tops Mediakix TikTok Branded Hashtag Challenge ratings

Influencer agency Mediakix has released an analysis of over 100 Branded Hashtag Challenges launched on TikTok between July 2020 and March 2021. It found that the three most popular types of TikTok Branded Hashtag Challenges are sponsored challenges ...