The rise of Elite TikTok mirrors that of Weird Twitter or Weird Facebook before it. John Herrman, a New York Times reporter, once described Weird Twitter as “vast and amorphous; what it looks like depends hugely on whom you follow, when you followed them, and what you find funny.” The same could be said of Elite TikTok. In a Medium post titled “TikTok Is Only Getting Weirder,” Kristin Merrilees described the many subgenres of TikTok that have risen up lately. “Others include state TikTok, element TikTok, medicine TikTok, appliance TikTok, plant TikTok, vegetable TikTok, even strait TikTok (as in the water feature). “I’m definitely on Elite TikTok or Alt TikTok,” she said, “but this week I found myself on Deep TikTok.” DeepTok is the even more bizarre cousin of Alt TikTok or Elite TikTok.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2020 16:47 UTC