TikTok fancam sabotage moved from generational mockery to political weapon.

Evidence

In its original inception, subcultures’ fancam spam was deployed to innocuous mockery of the millennial and boomer generations or to target competing social media threads for popularity. … Other, more sinister, emerging subcultures include Borrowing TikTok, a growing community of rebellious shoplifters sharing videos of best “borrowing” practices, mixed with overt anticapitalist messages and deliberate political targeting of corrupt corporations. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 510

Categorization

• CANDY: Borrowing TikTok — shoplifters sharing best ‘borrowing’ practices as anticapitalist performance — is a vivid, tweetable cultural fact.