FanloreProject:TikTok
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Welcome to FanloreProject:TikTok!
This project was created in order to add more info to Fanlore about fandom activities on TikTok. It was also created to be a place to brainstorm, add links, and hopefully be a place of enthusiasm and shared knowledge.
What is TikTok?
TikTok is a short-form video hosting platform for videos up to 10 minutes. It hosts a wide variety of fan activity, from cosplay, to fan edits, memes, recs and meta, and is popular among younger fans in particular.
Scope
Anything related to how fans use TikTok! For example:
- TikTok trends and sounds used in fannish contexts
- Fanworks (e.g. edits) and other fannish activity on TikTok such as cosplay
- Fanwork creators and other fandom users on TikTok
- Fandom topics and meta popular on TikTok
- Adding information about fandoms on TikTok to fandom pages that are active there
- Adding TikToks as example fanworks, and archiving TikToks already linked on Fanlore
Some Guidelines
Create stubs with reckless abandon. You may create new categories when you have or expect to have at least ten pages that fit within it (and the category fits within the existing site structure). Category titles should be plural, even if the word/phrase used to add it is singular. (See Help:Categories.)
If you can, please check the Fandoms by Canon Type before creating new categories. The Fan Activities category may also contain pages.
If you are able, make redirects as needed so that people looking for familiar terms can find them.
Useful Templates and Categories
Categories
We have the following subcategories within Category:TikTok:
- TikToks - Individual TikTok videos which are popular/have impact/generate discourse e.g. The Pedro Pascal Edit
- TikTok Trends - Editing trends that pop up across multiple fandoms e.g. Le Monde Colors Trend, Just a Man
- TikTok Creators - Creator accounts which have a significant fannish focus/involvement/attachment to fandom e.g. Icaruspendragon, It's a me, Silvia
- TikTok Fandom Glossary - Fannish terminology that seems to have originated on/be largely influenced by/prevalent mainly on TikTok e.g. POV (genre), Pookie Bear
Infoboxes
We also currently have the following TikTok-specific infoboxes which may be helpful for you to use:
- Template:TikTok - For individual TikTok videos, such as the Pedro Pascal edit (this template will automatically add the TikToks category).
- Template:TikTok Creator - For TikTok creators, like Icaruspendragon and It's a me, Silvia (this template will automatically add the TikTok Creators category).
- Template:TikTok Trend - For editing and wider fannish trends on TikTok, such as the Le Monde Colors Trend and Just a Man (this template will automatically add the TikTok Trends category).
Some Things to Keep in Mind
- Information for new editors can be found in our New Visitor Portal. Among other things, it explains how to make an account, how to start a new page, and includes a lot of other helpful information.
- Discussion on this project's Talk page is encouraged, as is discussion on individual article Talk pages.
- All edits, whether big, tiny, or in-between, are welcome.
- You don't have to be an "expert" on a subject. Adding what you know and feel passionate about are pieces of the puzzle, and ones that hopefully inspire others to expand on the topic.
- All typos, mistakes, and errors are easily corrected. Don't let perfection hobble you.
- Remember that Fanlore, like all wikis, is a collaborative effort, and may be edited by anyone.
- Pages are not "owned" or controlled by any single person or group of people.
- Pages and the information on them are only as robust, encompassing, and accurate as the information added by interested and enthusiastic fans like you.
- Fanlore practices and encourages a Fanlore:Plural Point of View.
Participants
Active Members
Project Badges
If you have added your name to the project participant list and contributed several edits, a badge may be awarded to you by Fanlore Policy & Admin which will be displayed on your user page, similar to Fanlore Challenges like the International Fanworks Day Fanlore Challenge or Stub September.
History of the Project
- Project started on 31 January 2023
Requests for Links or Pages
(I'll think of more, just to get some ideas down)
- Depending on how the loss of the UMG music gets resolved or not, as well as commentary on the impact directly on the trend vids, there's probably some overlap with pages already on Fanlore. Erin from The Fic List has some videos discussing the overlap with issues raised in the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes here: Link 1 and Link 2. Also the impact it may have on particular musician's fandom spaces on TikTok since it looks like they can't actually promote their own music now, because technically they don't own it. Article from The Guardian, Article from Wired. The issue of how AI plays into it as well may be relevant to the pages on generative AI and fandom as well Article from The Verge.
- Another type of video that's quite popular is cosplay/roleplay type videos (and creators sometimes stitch them or collaborate on them) acting out scenes. Things like The Black Teacher at Hogwarts; It's a me, Silvia does a lot of them for various fandoms; and then some of them have little or no cosplay in them (examples from "me in stranger things" search). Most of the big fandoms seem to have some of this kind of thing. Popular accounts could get their own pages, whereas others may I guess be more of a grouped fan activity similar to POV (genre)?
- Been meaning to make a page on 'skits' as a genre of tiktok videos, and I was going to include things like this as a sort of variation/type of skit? It shares a lot of similarities to other 'skit' videos (e.g. dressing up as characters in the style of closet cosplaying, quick cuts and pre-scripted dialogue, having multiple parts/series). Would that work, or should it be a separate page? --Poisongardenz (talk) 17:09, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
Cookies and chaos (talk) 11:47, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
- I've added Hells Belles, a TikTok webseries, (the pre-existing webseries InfoBox seems okay, at least for now) and listed two others I know of on the TikTok page and below to-do. As well as the fan base on TikTok, they all have fannish discussions on other platforms and also fanworks (Hells Belles has 103 works on AO3 which is more than some of my long-running fandoms!), but I suspect there are other webseries on TikTok just not in my algorithm, so if anyone knows anymore list them below:
Cookies and chaos (talk) 11:24, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
Link/Resource Dump
- Villain x Sunshine TikTok Example - Keep meaning to save this somewhere as an example. There's a lot of Villain x Sunshine and Grumpy x Sunshine clips (or scenes, maybe?)
so I wonder if there are other trope scenes elsewhere on TikTok.Yes, it looks like the same account as well as others do a lot of this kind of trope pairing scenes, villain ones are very popular, but there are others.
- POV videos about one of the Hazbin Hotel songs (at the Angelic Trial?) is getting a lot of edits at the moment from different roles. e.g. Example 1, Example 2, Example 3, Example 4
A few examples of the kinds of existing Fanlore Pages under the TikTok category (that likely need categories/info boxes changes etc.)
- Controversy/Drama/Wank/Discourse:2023 Hockey BookTok Sexual Harrassment Controversy
- Fan works discussed on/getting more attention from/etc. by TikTok: All The Young Dudes (there are a few paragraphs where TikTok's role in interest in the work is discussed)
- Edit trends: Le Monde Colors Trend, Just a Man, The Pedro Pascal Edit, You could live a hundred lifetimes and never deserve that boy (All edits, all slightly differing in how you might group them. There are plenty of others out there, so just a selection)
- Challenge Trends Kpop Dance Challenge (Another type of trend that generally involves the person being on screen and completing some kind of challenge. There are loads of these on TikTok, some of them like the Kpop example definitely overlap with fannish activity).