TikTok: A 15-second video is scaring users. What it is and why

Source: HW Upgrade added 24th Oct 2020

On TikTok comes a short video that it’s terrorizing users as soon as they look at it. It is a video created ad hoc by the author who has the ability to keep the viewer glued to the point of scaring him at the end. A video that is literally going around the world.

by Bruno Mucciarelli published , at 15: 31 in the web channel

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The period is Halloween and the video that we are about to propose certainly suits the period. A short video that a user created and published on TikTok and that in a very short time went viral for that terrifying being of his almost with a horror movie. Clearly we do not want to spoil what happens but know that it is nothing real even if the blow to the heart is undoubtedly assured.

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In the short video in fact we see a young man in a room who keeps turning the corridor lights off and on again. But what intrigues the video is the presence of a figure in the distance that appears as soon as the light is turned off by the young man. There is also a woman sitting a little further on on a bed and just this does nothing but indicate to the man that figure asking him to turn on the light again and observe the mysterious figure. For the first few seconds in the video it is a turning on and off of the light but after a few attempts here comes a sudden scream and the figure in the distance does nothing but run towards the camera lens, scaring the viewer.

A particular video that, as often happens in these situations, immediately went viral. Previously only on the TikTok platform during the past months of May although in that case it had not particularly impressed as views. Later, however, in the last period it has returned very much in fashion and has totaled the beauty of more than millions of views.

And it’s back in fashion again the fact of how TikTok manages to create highly viral videos much more than what happens with Facebook, Instagram or even other platforms. On the Chinese video aggregator the opposite occurs with a strong predisposition on the part of users who study videos in detail as if they were films. Some with work even days, others instead simpler and faster but certainly effective. A success, that of TikTok, which has the merit of allowing users to truly make videos of all kinds with an ease of sharing that few other platforms get. And Instagram, aka Zuckerberg, tries to get back under