How the Language of TV is Influencing How We See Ourselves
Briefly

You see a lot of this on TikTok now: videos that describe ordinary life using the language of television... users charting the different seasons of their lives or highlighting the emergence of plot arcs... a certain permeability between art and life, and pleasure in perceiving it.
But TikTok's video-based format has wildly amplified the impulse to collapse the distance between the two and imagine yourself as an onscreen character... making life look like an episode of television.
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