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 can be educational - but not in the way you might think. Information spreads not just through researched videos, but also levity, memes, and irreverent, lo-fi video content that entertain and provoke curiosity. Questions like ‘What is a phrase that someone born after 2000 wouldn’t understand’ usually garner stitched video responses from people enthusiastically reminiscing about ‘the good old days.’ Here instead, linguist Arum Natzorkhang pokes fun at the trend by responding in Proto-Indo-European, a reconstructed language which is hypothesised to be the common ancestor to all Indo-European languages.
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The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Minds → MM-09. Catch of the Day
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digital screen recording of @arumnatzorkhang’s TikTok