For a common Pakistani, the most trending entertainment these days is the short video app called TikTok. This video making app is where people show their hidden talents. We all love TikTok videos. Even if they don’t like making the videos ourselves, they sure love watching them. However, time and again, we hear calls to ban the app. People have reasons for demanding the ban.
Recently, we have seen people creating useless and shameful content on their TikTok videos and young boys shooting themselves accidentally while making Tiktok videos.
However, a Twitter user Qasim Farooq shared a long thread showing TikTok is what Pakistan needs the most right now. He started his thread showing the work of TikTok who rose to fame via the app because they were talented. The user showed how TikTok has become a space for promising artists, rappers, singers, doppelgangers and comedians, etc.
“For me, TikTok has great potential as a medium of getting your message across to a larger, grassroots audience. We are living in the information age. Information is power and it precedes change. It depends on those with influence to use this power to spread positive messages,” he wrote in the thread. Farooq started off by saying:
for quite sometime i'd subscribed to the belief that content produced on tiktok is v substandard/cringe. However, few months into using the app i've been amazed by how it's carving space for & giving a platform to ppl from diff sections of society to express themselves.
A thread:— Qasim Farooq (@MangoLassC) July 5, 2020
TikTok is a place for 3D make-up artists
Here is a 3D make-up artist on his threat, whose adaptation of Money Heist’s look garnered her a viewing of 1.6 million and 100K likes. WOW!
A space for make-up artists.
This video alone pulled a viewing of 1.6 million people & translated to about 100K likes. This is amazing outreach. pic.twitter.com/vjK4PrUJnd— Qasim Farooq (@MangoLassC) July 5, 2020
TikTok is a place for mimicry artists
Farooq shared a mimicry artist’s video who is a farmer from a rural district of Pakistan.
a space for mimicry artists. a farmer from a rural area who now has over 1 million likes on his videos. pic.twitter.com/sinEhQKINQ
— Qasim Farooq (@MangoLassC) July 5, 2020
TikTok is a place for after effect & VFX artists
This man from rural Punjab is a big fan of the avengers. His video edits pull an average viewing of 250K with over 2 million likes. OMG!
a platform for after effect & vfx artists. this guy from rural punjab is a big fan of the avengers. his video edits pull an avg viewing of 250K & has over 2 mil likes. Another example of how tiktok is enabling talented individuals to come forward despite their disadv backgrounds pic.twitter.com/O1WA7hdjop
— Qasim Farooq (@MangoLassC) July 5, 2020
TikTok is a place for singers
Farooq shared a video of a gola ganda wala, who is also a brilliant singer. Watch him sing here:
the app has honestly made me realize how we have a goldmine of talent just left undiscovered.
for example this man who sells “baraf golas” and has such a mesmerizing voice. pic.twitter.com/NtFTpsL1np— Qasim Farooq (@MangoLassC) July 5, 2020
TikTok is a place for comedians
and is also space for some very interesting humor ?? pic.twitter.com/Eyqms20z5H
— Qasim Farooq (@MangoLassC) July 5, 2020
TikTok is a place for doppelgangers
it has also brought forward some very surprising dopplegangers. For example, pakistani imran hashmi ?? pic.twitter.com/mYOMJVpfrX
— Qasim Farooq (@MangoLassC) July 5, 2020
In the end, Farooq shared his favorite TikTok video. Enjoy!
I’ll end this thread with my favorite tiktok https://t.co/Ug5UkbTW2s
— Qasim Farooq (@MangoLassC) July 5, 2020
Well, Farooq’s Twitter thread is quite convincing. If nicely and purposely done, TikTok can be a great platform for people who want to showcase their skills with limited money and resources.
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