TikTok's usual mix of cute animal videos, self-recorded teen breakdowns, and Euphoria reviews are now joined by a novel variety of programming: scenes from a sudden war
Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Tik Tok Like any other Gen-Z gym rat in 2021, Andriy Kurilenko used TikTok to record his workouts, amplifying his MMA training sessions with distorted chopped-and-slopped Ukrainian rap featuring bass so loud it vibrates your iPhone. His feed was all punching-bag practice, sweaty mirror selfies replete with bulging biceps, shameless thirst traps for his followers.
TikTok’s mind-reading algorithm nearly predicts what you want to watch before you watch it. It serves you a stream of videos it hopes you like and then observes how you respond, whether they’re of gross kitchen concoctions or endless versions of smartly dressed Gen-Zers rotely dancing to Nelly Furtado’s Say It Right. Now the algorithm is trying out something new on many of us.
One of the most striking genres is young Ukrainians addressing their life-or-death dilemma with dancing and memes. A young woman in a white hotel robe bops along to DJ David Guetta’s “Who’s That Chick?” while plates of eggs and salmon are arrayed neatly on a table behind her:
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