From the old-fashioned animated collages to the adolescence where you can talk trash when you meet your opponents, TikTok’s gaming area is an often maddening place, full of energy, attitude and space exploration.

Last modified on Friday, November 12, 2021 09.05 EST

Since the Internet became a thing, gaming culture has always existed on the Internet, so it’s no surprise that TikTok is now the primordial soup of video game memes. The long-established "Greatest Game of All Time" magazine special issue continues to exist as a compilation of clips, composed of a three-time remixed SoundCloud rap soundtrack. The anchor releases highlights of their live performances, from the unlikely killing to the spectacular outburst of anger. The sketches posted by the children teased their parents for their disdain for the game. Role players dress up as game characters and join the latest dance craze. The trend breaks out for a week and then disappears, just like in the month of 2020, teenagers released clips of themselves learning Mario Kart music. Games are completely unique to teenagers under the age of 21 who support most of TikTok's content, so the music, sound effects, and jokes in video games permeate almost everything. But be careful, because TikTok's audience is very young, if you play games for more than 10 years, browsing will make you feel like Methuselah. I saw a compilation of "old video games that are still interesting today" composed entirely of things that appeared in my 20s.

Expressed some very bad opinions in this evolving quagmire of short videos, as well as disappointing sexism "girlfriend trying to distract boyfriend from playing video games" type of painful entry, but there are also good things : Shelbyrenaeyt, a 24-year-old Fortnite anchor, released funny (or just direct pain) clips of all the adolescent boys she encountered in the game who tried to talk trash to her but failed.

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There are also many incredibly wealthy kids and professional gamers showing off their flaunting game settings, with a million LEDs and rotating fans. One account, Ingrem GamingTech, is a fascinating series of dark clips from a house that looks like the Brotherhood of Primary Colors, where people design zero-gravity gaming stations. Cozy Games upended all of this with her soft colors, calm, and beautifully thoughtful game room, where she mainly played mild and atmospheric things (such as Lake, a game where you post posts in a picturesque town) ). It seems that any game can briefly flourish on TikTok. Although most of the content you will see revolves around the pillars of youth gaming culture-Overwatch and Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto Online, FIFA, Roblox and other shooting games-more esoteric games have also emerged water surface. In a short period of time, there are hundreds of remixed videos of an anime music game called Muse Dash, and the space skull assassination game has achieved great success among us, thanks in large part to the number that appeared on TikTok Millions of clips, skits, and bizarre reimaginations. Looking at the most popular content on the game tab, I found myself stuck in a series of boring GTA clips, show-off PC build videos, and despicable peeing. But once you stand out from the basic list compilation and eyeball youth "humor", TikTok is a tribute to the immense energy and imagination of young video game fans.

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Favorite genre: #videogamesinreallife trend, which involves people walking around in the real world, with the pause actions of game characters in the 00s, imitating blunt animations and canned conversations from the games they grew up in. (For people over 30, it is frustrating that these games are similar to Minecraft or the 10-year-old fantasy RPG Skyrim, but still so.) This is also a window into the game making process, because of the young indie developers Clips and comments about their content are being released.

It is also exciting to see the relative diversity of the TikTok game scene, compared to the online gaming community that is almost entirely composed of white males when I grow up. If anyone suspects that everyone is playing games now, this is evidence.