You can squeeze nearly every big brand in there. Left wing philosophy is completely antithetical to big businesses.
TikTok is a great example because it’s relatively new and very popular. But the same is true for nearly every corporate/for-profit social media company you can think. And legacy media, for that matter, too.
They have the ability to exert control over the content that billions of people look at every day. You would have to be incredibly naive to think that’s a power that they wouldn’t use in their interests.
You get extremely cynical, you could even start to question how people are portrayed in art…movies, books, music, etc. Archetypes are often intertwined with stereotypes. For a long time, the bad guy was always Russian. Then they were Arabic. The western patriarchy always prevails.
And it seems strange to me how all the biggest mainstream rappers continually perpetuate negative black stereotypes.
Not just TikTok.
You can squeeze nearly every big brand in there. Left wing philosophy is completely antithetical to big businesses.
TikTok is a great example because it’s relatively new and very popular. But the same is true for nearly every corporate/for-profit social media company you can think. And legacy media, for that matter, too.
They have the ability to exert control over the content that billions of people look at every day. You would have to be incredibly naive to think that’s a power that they wouldn’t use in their interests.
You get extremely cynical, you could even start to question how people are portrayed in art…movies, books, music, etc. Archetypes are often intertwined with stereotypes. For a long time, the bad guy was always Russian. Then they were Arabic. The western patriarchy always prevails.
And it seems strange to me how all the biggest mainstream rappers continually perpetuate negative black stereotypes.
I could go on…