TikTokker

plural TikTokkers

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of TikToker.

   The Real Tamera Mowry-Housley (“Christmas Comes Twice”); TikTokker Miss Peppers; Karamo Brown. (N) 3 p.m. KCOP

   2020 December 8, “Tuesday TV Highlights”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif., section “Talk Shows”, page EE1, column 1

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   Within all of this we seek to establish whether TikTokkers have agency to ‘subvert’ the generic tropes of the platform, or whether it is subversion-proofed either by dint of its design or the very nature of twenty-first-century social media.[…]A TikTokkers’^([sic]) reward is something arguably more valuable than cash; it is popularity and approbation, or social capital, within the TikTok community. TikTokkers will frequently make a self-referential video expression^([sic]) their pleasure at reaching ‘100k’ or similar.[…]Usually, the videos are cut together with a different scene for each line, beginning with the TikTokker ‘tumbling out of bed’ in slapstick fashion.[…]While it is not necessarily important, it is also unclear how familiar the TikTokkers and their consumers are with the entirety of songs used.

   2020, Sorcha Avalon Mackenzie, David Nichols, “Finding ‘Places to Be Bad’ in Social Media: The Case of TikTok”, in David Nichols, Sophie Perillo, editors, Urban Australia and Post-Punk: Exploring Dogs in Space, Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 287 and 291–292

   TikTokkers brace for the worst / As President Donald Trump threaten^([sic]) to ban TikTok in the U.S., the mostly young users of the China-owned video app have been posting videos that are in turn angry but cheeky pokes at Trump, fond farewells and pleas for users to follow them to American-owned apps like Instagram or YouTube.

   2020 August 10, Tali Arbel, Messenger-Inquirer, volume 146, number 223, Owensboro, Ky., page A6

   Today, youth are watching on average over 11 hours of influencer content each week, engaging with TikTokkers and YouTubers as much, if not more than, with their own friends and family.

   2020 November 14, Matt Diteljan, “Don’t blame gen Z for not listening to COVID warnings”, in Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alta., page A17, column 4

   It didn’t last – within a day it was worth less than 1 cent again – but that set a pattern in which everyone from TikTokkers to Musk could make the price jump with some online attention, all the while egged on by investors cheering, “To the moon!”

   2021 February 6, John Keilman, “Think GameStop is wild? Meet Dogecoin.”, in Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Ill., page 4, columns 4–5

   A TikTokker did a deep dive into the social media accounts of several of the women still around at the end of the season, and found racially-problematic social media posts by Rachael Kirkconnell, a graphic artist from Georgia.

   2021 March 14, Brooke Cain, “What to know about Matt James before ‘The Bachelor’ season finale”, in The News & Observer, volume 157, number 73, Raleigh, N.C., section “The Rachael Controversy”, page 5C, column 4