TikTok is obsessed with videos by NYC transplants that make the city look like a playground for the rich. But dig a little deeper, and you’ll find that the city’s natives are unfazed, doing what they’ve always done: wandering around, cracking jokes.
He says he grew his TikTok page slowly, transitioning from various Instagram accounts he’s run for years where he’d post similar clips — near poetic observations of the bizarre and sometimes unsettling puzzle pieces that make up life in the city. “I do feel like the Bronx and Harlem, I tend to see the craziest videos from New York out of those boroughs.”started posting to TikTok last year, things picked up.
A central function of TikTok — and indeed another layer of its addictive nature — is the often active comment section for particular videos. “On TikTok, I’ll respond in the comments because on TikTok that’s where most of the pranks are.” @Tweakseason has a running joke on his page, calling on viewers to “free the comish.” His videos sometimes get taken down for violating TikTok’s standards, namely around potential bullying and cursing. “They would call it bullying if I say something bad about somebody’s hair or somebody’s clothes. They call that bullying.” He chalks it up to New York’s less than sensitive sensibility. “A lot of people like to clown,” Scandela says. “We call it cutting up.
He credits his neighborhood of Dykman Heights, and a love for battle rap videos growing up, as the source of his account’s quick wit. “That’s something people don’t really notice,” he says of hip-hop’s influence on his videos. “But yeah it’s like I listen to rap a lot, and I used to watch battle rap a lot. So that’s where all the quick, random wordplay comes along.
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