Sundance Film Festival 2022: Sterling K. Brown, TikTok and ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’

We Met in Virtual Reality: A heartwarming tale of creating community across the digital divide

But the heartwarming key to Joe Hunting’s inviting, humanistic documentary is the utter lack of condescension he exhibits toward his subjects. Tracking a number of communities in VRChat, including several couples who met on the platform and now engage in long-distance relationships, Hunting focuses on the freedom these kaleidoscopic virtual worlds lend to their inhabitants.

The most interesting thing about this largely conventional talking head documentary is the contrast that emerges between Kantayya’s two main groups of subjects. The Gen Z content creators eagerly connect their experiences with the app to personal self-actualization stories. In contrast, the tech experts are quick to emphasize that the potential dangers of TikTok are endemic to pretty much all social media apps; that this is a systemic issue, not a novelty story.

There’s a fascinating — and at times unintentionally humorous — tension between the optimistic idealism and simplistic navel-gazing that characterizes these TikTok fame-os. Had Kantayya simply trained her camera on any one of these influencers, she might have had an interesting character study on her hands. As is, however, "TikTok, Boom." sort of feels like scrolling through TikTok itself: A lot of content without much focus.

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