The creative power of TikTok duets

18 APR 2022

Film

This video features in a responsive display in the museum that presents the moments, stories and memes capturing the zeitgeist by going viral on the internet.

TikTok user @KateyLorrell had humble aspirations for her now-famous video: “just trying to show my fit off, but the good lord had other plans, ” she wrote in the caption of a video of her tripping in her room. Other plans indeed: her spill now has millions of views through TikTok ‘duets’, a feature which allows users to repost a video alongside a video accompaniment of their own, making comedy out of her (minor) misfortune.

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Collection

Not in ACMI's collection

Credits

creator

Melissa Solis

Production dates
18 APR 2022

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Minds → MM-09. Catch of the Day

Measurements

65 seconds

Object Types

Moving image file/Digital

Materials

Digital screen recording of @vixey_co18 Tiktok video

Collected

1383 times

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