These videos act as artificial escapism, offering people the chance to matter to their favorite fictional characters in the way those characters do to them. #ronweasly #ronaldweasley #harrypotter #desiredreality #realityshifting #dr #dracotok #hptiktok в™¬ mario sound вЂ“ mandycap Such videos advertise the creatorsвЂ™ experiences as learning opportunities, but also encourage viewers to continue consuming their u go to my school u didnt see this.

The average non-educational reality shifting TikTok features a creator explaining their exploits in a fictional space (most often the Harry Potter universe), going into great detail on what they supposedly encountered. This subculture is structured around this power dynamic between those who claim they can shift and those who admit they cannot, and this hierarchy introduces an obvious financial incentive to create content framing yourself as the former. In the absence of these personal experiences, users turn to people who are happy to share their own. There is disagreement on the supposed science, but the general consensus is that this is a spiritual process suggestions that users are simply describing dreams or the like are immediately shouted down.В In one representative example, a popular creator talks about an experience in the world of Legend of Korra, elaborating especially on how they became important to the story and their favorite #draco #dracomalfoy #dracotok #harrypotter #shifting #subliminals #desiredreality #desiredrealityshifting #realityshifting #harrypotter #dracomalfoytiktok в™¬ original sound вЂ“ ThomasДespite their enormous numbers, most members of these communities donвЂ™t actually claim to have succeeded in вЂњshifting.вЂќ Commenters regularly share their frustrations at not having вЂњgot itвЂќ yet, while the influencers assure them itвЂ™s right around the corner.

One such externally incomprehensible subgroup is вЂњ Reality Shifting,вЂќ a niche built squarely in the midpoint between the spiritual and fandom communities, populated by people who believe wholeheartedly that they can project their consciousnesses into alternate realities - largely fictional ones. While designed largely to keep people using the app, this feature also funnels people into smaller and smaller subcommunities based on their interests, creating entirely distinct experiences for each user.

Necessitated not insignificantly by a year spent indoors, TikTok offers endless content thatвЂ™s sorted not by recency or whether you know the creator, but by an impenetrable algorithm ostensibly designed to show you what it thinks youвЂ™d like most. This makes the sudden and absolute dominance of TikTok all the more fascinating. ItвЂ™s hard for a social media platform to truly break into the public eye unless it has something genuinely new, and people arenвЂ™t going to jump ship for a site their friends arenвЂ™t on.

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