Kids are creating gangs of aliens in “Grand Theft Auto Online”—and transforming TikTok at the same time by abebrown716
TikTok does also have a live-video function, so it could also go up against Twitch, the Amazon-owned livestreaming platform that is dominated by gamers and generates more than 10 billion hours of streams a year.
“I haven't seen something like [the Aliens] spill over into non-gaming worlds. And that's what TikTok was clearly perpetuating,” says Matt Klein, who studies digital culture for Sparks and Honey, a marketing consultancy, and is also.
There is no supreme leader for either Alien group. Instead, they are more like a collection of scattered clans. There are more than two dozen TikTok accounts devoted to the Purple Aliens and a similar number for the Green Aliens. There are nearly as many Instagram accounts devoted to the Aliens, too, though none have gotten close to the size of the big TikTok accounts.which has 119,300 followers and was started by four London teenagers.
@thegtapurps has published nine TikToks, averaging 791,000 views each. “We try to either think of new and original video ideas that no one has done before or adapt and improve on ones we have seen already on TikTok,” says Finlay. His group’sshowed four Purple Aliens taking down another player in the game—a handgun-wielding civilian, not a Green Alien—to the highly aggressive lyrics of “Billy” by
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