Boris Johnson joined TikTok yesterday and possibly already would.
The number 10 now has an official account on Chinese social media Gen-Z.
For the uninitiated, TikTok allows users to post short videos, accompanied by a song.
If you’re over 40, that’s why your children or grandchildren still practice weird 30-second dance routines.
If you’re over 30, it’s like Vine, but not as much fun.
But in their latest attempt to make the prime minister look like the kids, the No. 10 social media team would likely have made two serious mistakes: not only did they leave comments enabled, but they didn’t disable duos.
You see, TikTok allows users to take videos made by other people and insert a video of themselves reacting or commenting on it.
For Twitter users, it’s like a video quote tweet, and the most productive duos can be found with a single click on the original video.
Remember that week last year when suddenly everyone became obsessed with sailor songs?The duo allowed other people to overlay their own harmonies on the more sensitive part of the original video.
You can see that he drives.
At the time of writing, there were about 250 duets by M. Johnson on TikTok.
In the original, the prime minister thanked others for “logging in” to his “TikTok site,” assuring them that it would be different from the government’s existing presence on Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and, for some reason, LinkedIn.
And he insisted that users “won’t necessarily catch me dancing,” so we can be thankful.
At the time of publication, the most productive comment in the video is a 5p Freddos return request.
Another user commented: “Bravo Boris nan makes the wheel go up. “
But it was in the duets that the chaotic power of tikTok shone.
Most of the responses were silent users in front of their cameras with an expression between perplexity and mockery.
A user overlaid himself on the most sensitive part of M’s video. Johnson, placing his finger to give the impression that he is poking into the Prime Minister’s nose.
User “thetokenlatinafriend” posted a video of herself laughing, with a caption that read, “I give it a week before they stop commenting and a month until they close it. “
But the user “sorafell” ruled everything, ingeniously placing his arm to give the impression that M. Johnson was posting his TikTok in the middle of a party in Downing Street. It’s probably less difficult to look at it than to look at it.
In case someone from number 10 has read this article, you can turn off duos in TikTok’s privacy settings. You are welcome.
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