#tiktok v tumbr

[probablypossesedbysatan]

The differences between the cultures of tiktok and Tumblr are so different and it just absolutely bewilders me.

If no one knew there's this new thing popping up on tiktok about a 1980s movie called zepotha. It's a made up film and it's much like when people on tumblr did this with goncharov. We made up a movie and made lore about it. Except on tiktok people, got over it in about one day.

I decided to have some fun as everyone else was doing the same and comment on someone's video "omg you look just like this one character from zepotha" as a little joke. I thought the reactions to the zepotha thing that was going on would have been much like what went on with goncharov until I saw in the recommended search something along the lines of 'zepitha hate' and I just thought "oh it's gonna be made up stories of how people didn't like the movie". I was unpleasantly welcomed with masses of videos just saying things like 'can people stop now, everyone knows zepotha isn't real' and 'its embarrassing when people act like the zepotha thing is so funny'.

Things like this show me how people on tiktok can be so unpleasant and cruel to people who just want to have fun because all those people who say stuff about everyone knowing doesn't understand how that's the joy of the joke. It doesn't have to be a big secret. Everyone or no one could know. It doesn't matter as long as people are having fun.

If you remember the entire goncharov phase, mostly everyone knew what was going on and that it wasn't an actual movie, at least mostly everyone on Tumblr. There were some people outside of tumblr who didn't understand that goncharov wasn't real and that was the true joy of it. For such a wide community to be a part of something where there were no arguments on it because it just was and there was no actual divide because basically everyone had collectively decided to just go along with it. From the people who wrote detailed reviews about it to the people who said they hated the movie and didn't think they could ever like it because it was too long, I didn't see a person criticize anyone who dared to post about it. And this went on for a good amount of time and I have fond memories of going onto Tumblr to collect more news and lore about goncharov.

With tiktok however, barely a day had gone by until people already criticised the people who dared to have fun and enjoy their time on the app in their own little way. This all happened after I went onto tiktok for the first time in a while and I was deep in the Tumblr mindset so I thought the best of the situation. I should've seen it coming however, because as with many things on tiktok, whether it's people or just a silly joke, it always seems as if there is a divide on the app.