This is the world of Cartel TikTok, a genre of videos depicting drug trafficking groups and their activities that is racking up hundreds of thousands of views on the popular social media platform. American teens were served the boat chase video on their For You page, which recommends engaging videos to users. “It’s fascinating,” he said, “kind of like watching a movie.”Others began noticing the surge of cartel videos as well and posting reactions to the deluge of guns and luxury cars filling their feeds. “Did the cartels just roll out their TikTok marketing strategy?” asked one flummoxed user in a video viewed some 490,000 times. Even as he acknowledged the real-world violence behind the videos, Cartel TikTok has become a way of connecting with Mexican popular culture from a safe distance.

Source: bd News24 November 28, 2020 18:45 UTC