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Tiktok is still on unstable terrain in the United States. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court confirmed a law approved by Congress last year that required a prohibition of the application of Chinese property unless it was sold to a buyer approved by the Government.
Hours before the law entered into force, Tiktok briefly obscured, then returned to life when President Trump, a day before his inauguration, said application support. He then signed an executive order that stopped the ban for 75 days.
It is not clear if the application will disappear for good, but in the meantime, here there are four stories of true crimes associated with Tiktok, the most unloaded application in the United States and the world in 2020, 2021 and 2022, which captured more broad attention .
Of course, it is no secret that brilliant dance videos that have populated Tiktok since its inception, along with a lot of online content, is more fantasy than reality. But that is little comfort for the revelations discovered in this Netflix 2024 series.
“Dancing for the Devil” spends mainly time with dancers administered by the 7m Films talent company and were members of the Shekinah church, both entities founded and directed by Pastor Robert Shinn, as well as the members of the desperate family of those who They are still involved with 7m. These families claim that their loved ones are essentially trapped.
Shinn created 7M to help Tiktok dancers and influencers to raise their status. The dancers we listen to say that 7M is a cult and that Shinn is an abusive cult leader. Accusations include fraud, labor violations, extortion, toilet and assault. (Shinn did not participate in the series and denies irregularities).
“Dancing for The Devil” falls into a category of true crime that makes less looking back and instead documes a situation that continues to develop. Our film critic praised the three -part series for not rushing the narrative, calling it “daring, instructive, reflective and moving.”
Documentary
Last year I wrote about how the narrators of true crimes narrators used to have few images in the first person in real time to trust. Now, since much of our daily life is documented, the genre has been transformed. And there has never been a trace of condemnatory videos and audio evidence as there was with this case, counted in this Peacock 2024 documentary, about 2021 murders Ana abulated and Rayburn Barron, who were killed by the separated husband of Ana, Ali were abulating.
Ali was a Tiktok star who, under the name of Jinnkid user, won prominence and millions of followers with his comic impressions of Skyrim and “Scarface”. He recorded much of his life on his phone, and when his marriage and Ana crumbled, transmitted his fights live, dissolving the perfect image they had projected online.
He even recorded Audio during the time of the murders, and the bell cameras of the neighbors in his luxury of San Diego de San Diego captured the sequelae.
This is a story of domestic violence, jealousy and addictions, and how a fixation in the fame of social networks can deform reality without repair.
Documentary series
Here we learn about Sania Khan, a Pakistani American photographer and influential whose Tiktok followed the wave when she began to speak frankly about her separation from her husband, Raheel Ahmad, after a tumultuous and abusive marriage.
The confessional type content is everywhere on social networks, but for Khan, issuing her private life was particularly brave due to the conservative communities in southern Asia and Muslims of which she was part, cultures that wait for women to maintain The status quo and put their relatives. Reputation first.
While dozens of women celebrated their frankness and pity their pain in the comments, there was also a brutal reaction of those who thought their positions were shameful and proceeded to harass, intimidate and threaten her.
When he was just a few hours after starting a new chapter in his life, The worst happened.
This episode is particularly moving because Khan's story is greatly told through his closest friends, who focus on his effervescent personality and his mission of modernizing their culture, overcoming taboos and claiming their identity.
Digital Series
When Taska Johnson, known online as Reesa Teesa, published a series of 50 parts on her Tiktok page last year that told her condemned marriage to her ex -husband, a drama that includes fraud claims, falsification and manipulation, the internet was Hurgado As the story was deployed, every more shocking revelation than the previous one, won hundreds of millions of views.
In all, the videos record more than six hours, but they are worth it. It is also a refreshing way of experiencing stories like these: stripped, minimally produced and told directly from the person in their center.
The series could eventually disappear for US users along with the application. But if you miss it, Natasha Rothwell (“The White Lotus”) is developing a television adaptation of the saga.
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