well thats definitely something 
but im most definitely sure no one there knows what tanuki is or knows how to operate it sadly so thatd explain the lack of info but still jesus didnt know he did that ty for the info
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o yeah thats stupid for sure 
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I just simply have always hated short form content, so I donât know anything about what vk tiktok is like but because tiktok is just short form content I have 0 interest in it, just not for me.
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The sooner TikTok is banned globally the better.
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yh theres barely any info about j anything on there its either just bandmen edits or j stupid shit like vids of ai falling off the stage etc
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lmaooo
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in my experience, having marginally more than superficial interest in any fandom or hobby is enough to stay the f. away from tiktak; astrology internet in particular is a very entertaining place that shits on tikteekers without any remorse whatsoever.
I donât see VK being too popular with the basement-dwelling dopamine addict-tier gang at the core of that app. it does not have the fandom outreach that the âitâ music scenes have.
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Yeah Iâve never understood the trend of platforms limiting what you can do, back in the day I loved Myspace because it had everything, music, videos, blogs, you could customize every detail of your profile. Then one day everyone moved to Facebook for some reason which I really didnât like since it was just a lamer Myspace with a fraction of the features, then twitter became popular where its just status updates but it limits how much you can type, which prevents any meaningful discussion from taking place. Tiktok just seems to be a limited version of YouTube to me, I donât understand the purpose of it.
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Also speaking of Tiktok kids
Where the fuck are they on Kaneto Juuseiâs Twitter? I see them spam Chill on Instagram, meanwhile Uru has only a fraction of Chillâs followers. On Twitter itâs like a desert.
Shows a lot about how these kids only circle jerk on Tiktok of how big fans they are, when theyâre barely interacting with the band itself.
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They only reply to some selfie posts, but not every single one of them. Itâs either a whole lot of reactions, or barely any. This is still mainly for Uru (seriously what did he do to deserve this)
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Most def true but theres a possibility itll become very popular on there within a few years as theres a shit ton of new vk âfansâ emerging from there
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Tbh I donât like tiktok in general. Takes the old school 'hey hereâs a brain numbing distraction" to like the next level of super distracting videos in the form of a reel.
That aside, I feel like its good for like if vkei bands wanna do a pv spot posting it on tiktok as a short video. Or do like short videos of those live performances to have fans see what their fav band is like live without spending too much time but beyond that I donât understand the point of tiktok for music that much.
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VK doesnât monetize the same ways other, more accessible genres do.
thereâs a decline in offline vk-specific retail space and offline publications which hypothetically might push band members from twitter on tiktok, but with majority of people on the app not speaking japanese, and majority japanese musicians not being fluent in English, there wonât be a lot of interaction happening back to back.
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My impression is that most of the people on ââvk tiktokââ are chronically online teenagers, and teenagers are prone to being obnoxious and ignorant, which is why I dislike it and stay away from it completely.
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Before I made a comment, I wanted to check vk tt again since I have stayed away from it for a very long time. I always thought tt would be a good place for vk because of visual nature of it, and Iâm glad to see some great fashion vids and just generally entertaining content I wouldnât really come across on YT like this comment from Kazuki (xaa-xaa)
I still would rather not interact with the community there because everyone is so young, and tbh some of the edits are brain hemorrhage inducing, and yes the drama that comes from tt is damn stupid. But eh, overall itâs keeping some life in a dying subculture and vids like this are even helpful
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whereâs the superlike reaction button tbh
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My impression is most tiktokers (no idea if thatâs spelled correctly) always jump on things for their a e s t h e t i c and V I B E S ~and not necessarily because they actually like a certain hobby/Fandom/music/subculture. Thatâs not just limited to VK, of what I have seen (I am not actively on there) there are just as many kids claiming they are Uber-Goff because they like spooky shit (but havenât even a clue who Bauhaus is) and Black Metal too seemed to have blown up, but just solely for the edgy aesthetic, not the music (a lot of TkTokers when the find out about how problematic~ the BM scene is either immediately stop liking it or they go into full blown âakshually Varg wasnât bad, just misuderstood teenâ denialism mode). I am sure most of them will eventually find something else soon.
With VK TikTok itâs the same. Peeps over there latch onto a certain set of bands and musicians they fap over and claim to be hardcore fans of, despite not even really giving a shit about those bands in reality and off their app. I partially blame those youtube reaction channels that made Malice Mizer among others online-semi-famous.
What i noticed too is that TikTok is kinda like the Gen Z on speed version of tumblr (meets Vine meets instagram). Thereâs a lot of non-binaries and âspecial haircolor peopleâ on there - which itself isnât a bad thing, donât misunderstand me. But like in the good old tumblr days these people will cling onto anything remotely âexoticâ (that is ânon-whiteâ/ânon-westernâ) and gender-noncomforming and pretty much instill their own worldview and conditions into it. VK was and is still a perfect platform for these people to project a lot of their western ideas of âqueernessâ onto it. I get when you are minority you tend to obsess over things that seem to be more aligned with how you are⌠but people can often become extreme about it. Like TikTokers who treat all bandomen as nonbinary and misgender them constantly, make up fantastical stories about how Mana is actually trans (despite there being no evidence for it). They actually end up playing into gender roles rather then debunk them by doing the whole âman in dresses are nb/transâ rhetoric. That reminds me a bit of my teenage days when we young VK fans too were obsessed with bandomens sexuality, like how we always tried to make them all gay in our heads because hawt crossdressing men are obviously open-minded and queer⌠which is far from the actual truth (that some bands are sexist and homophobic af). So itâs also naive ignorance at play here.
And that obsession leads ofc into the infantilization of VK bandomen. Idealizing that much because you have an imagined parasocial relationship with them because of perceived similarities can make one oblivious to the fact that musicians and artists are just people - they make and say dumb things and can happen to have views that are not matching yours. But thatâs impossible when you have that mindest that your âquweer, non-binary, hawt bandomen from the mystical East UwUâ are angelic beings who can never do wrong. And when they actually do and the illusion of VK being ânon-problematicâ is broken they double down hard, like the Spanish Inquisition (see the Ai incidentâŚ). I mean we kids in the early 2ks were similar, but thankfully our mental poop didnât go viral and didnât pull others in to join the delusions we had.
tldr young people on TikTok form parasocial relationships with bands and musicians whose aesthetic they like (often for the reason thatâs itâs different from their mainstream culture, exotic and/or âqueerâ - in the sense of projecting western values of sexuality onto different cultures) and social media makes it so that people jump onto trend bandwagons and they are extreme about it in ways that are unhealthy and annoying.
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Through TikTok, more people can learn about visual kei music and culture, and participate in this community.
In addition, TikTokâs short video format makes the content easier to digest, which allows more people to quickly understand the characteristics of visual kei, including fashion, makeup, music and performances. This trend could also help visual kei bands and artists expand their audiences and increase their visibility globally.
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Oh, look, if you scroll up now, you will see that we had the exact same discussion last year.
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what a spicy potato
but i donât disagree