‘This is uncharted territory for me,’ says Absofacto. “The stress probably took a year off my life, but it was worth it.”, TikTok turned his song into a creepy meme — until fans took it back, You can still get a set of AirPods for just $100, Plus, check out today’s new deal on the Ring Floodlight Cam, Amazon’s Fire tablet sale takes up to $70 off select models, Discounts across the board for Amazon’s tablet, Samsung’s Galaxy S20 is down to $650 right now, Sign up for the “I’m so happy I spoke up and I’m so thankful to the CSA survivors who put it on my radar,” he says. But for Visger and other musicians who have used the platform to reach a new audience, it’s an ugly reminder of how little control there is over how a song is used, and how hard it can be to take back your work. 21 of the most popular TikTok songs and sounds, and where they came from. The result has been an unusual fight to reclaim “Dissolve.” Unlike most content fights, this one has mostly taken place among users, avoiding top-down moderation in favor of mass action within the strange ecosystem of TikTok. One popular user posted a POV video with the caption “I’m your cool aunt looking at a picture you just colored with your other aunt after I get back from burying your creepy pedophilic dad in the woods,” which spun off an entire wave of response videos. None were explicit enough to trigger moderation, but they were still deeply disturbing. But last weekend, Jonathan Visger (who records under the Absofacto name) got some alarming news from his followers. “I started getting messages from people that were survivors of childhood sexual abuse,” says Visger. In another response, a gay couple poses with their infant child under the caption “POV: you got taken away from your creepy dad and adopted by a lesbian witch family.”. Connor Perrett. He’s decided that, at least for a while, he’ll dedicate his TikTok account to spreading awareness about child sexual abuse, hoping to comfort survivors and turn the experience into something more positive. Still, the experience has left Visger unsettled, and with a radically new perspective on what it means to be a popular artist on TikTok. For years, Absofacto’s “Dissolve” has been a fixture on TikTok — specifically the first few seconds of the chorus, a hooky rising vocal line singing the words, “I just wanted you to watch me dissolve...” The song never broke as big as “Old Town Road” or “The Box,” but TikTok fame has given it millions of streaming plays and even a minor chart breakthrough in 2019, a full four years after it was released. Many have taken down their posts, sometimes posting apologies alongside them. The messages were about an unsettling meme that had grown up around Visger’s song. TikTok really started taking off in 2019 and as a result, several songs went viral because of the dances, challenges and memes that used the tracks in the videos. It symobilizes a website link url. “This is uncharted territory for me.”. Visger’s first response was a TikTok post, calling on fans to take back the song and beat back the “gross daddy POV trend,” as he called it. New, 10 comments ‘This is uncharted territory for me,’ says Absofacto. Users who register likes on a lot of “Dissolve” memes are likely to be shown more of them, which means the users who already had an attachment to Visger’s song were the ones most likely to see the unsettling meme. ♬ Russian Song | 2 Posts. Described as “daddy daughter POV” videos, the videos show young users making direct eye contact with the viewer, setting a scene of a daughter accidentally walking in on her father. And because recommendation algorithms tend to surface content that gets a lot of reactions — whether it’s likes, comments or TikTok duets — the controversy around the videos may have only promoted them more. For longtime fans, it was jarring to see it soundtracked by a song they loved. “I probably wouldn’t have understood the meaning behind this trend, if the people who had been affected hadn’t told me about it and asked me to do something,” Visger says. After last week’s flood, the memes are now difficult to find on TikTok, and far less likely to pop into the pivotal For You page. TikTok turned his song into a creepy meme — until fans took it back. The lighter instances of the meme were only vaguely creepy, but others seemed to be straightforward references to incest and sexual abuse. 2019 Viral TikTok songs. It indicates the ability to send an email. “They told me there were videos on TikTok using my song that were extremely upsetting to them.”. “This song means a lot to me,” he wrote in a caption. (Visger duetted one on Friday, trying to boost the message.) Watch short videos with music Russian Song on TikTok. An envelope. From the beginning, Visger seemed to be fighting an uphill battle against TikTok’s algorithm. Along the way, many of the users behind the original daddy-daughter meme have gotten the message. newsletter. “Please save it from being associated with this daddy play acting thing.” The post brought in half a million likes, and launched a wave of countermemes under the same audio tag, a slowed down version of Dissolve’s familiar hook. An image of a chain link. 2020-01-14T22:04:10Z The letter F. A ghost.
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