Part 1: Why Archive? (To Be fighting Time)
In the fast, fickle, existentially risky world of TikTok, which can retrieve content as quickly as it disappears, memorializing is crucial. When you download your favorite TikToks, it’s not just about saving a funny video or catchy song–it’s about holding onto moments that speak to you, holding (onto) cultural trends and even holding (onto) a part of digital history. In order to better explain what I mean here, let’s take a look at the three main benefits that come from saving a TikTok video.
In her viral video blog, Claudia Boleyn takes all of the TikToks in her video folder and treats them like a time capsule: ‘I know one day I’m going to look back on these videos and be shocked by the person, the phase, or the feelings.’
Indeed, pile everything in there. When technologist Evgeny Morozov guests on This Week in Google, he likes to say, ‘The cloud is just a big fat hard drive in the sky.’ Make your hard drives a storage model. They can be used for future research projects, editing, analysis. If not now, then when? If not here, then where?
Begin Your TikTok Archive: A Step-by-Step Guide
- 1. Download Selectively: Choose videos that hold personal meaning or stance, or have a perpetual influence on cultural trends.
- 2. Arrange Your Downloads: Establish a method of organization for your TikTok archive. This could entail sorting videos by themes, creators, or chronologically.
- 3. Label Your Downloads: For each video, make a note about its:
Date of Download: Record the context in which this particular piece of video was created.
Information on the Author: Keep track of the author’s username and profile for later reference.
Reasons For Downloading: Specify why you think this video is valuable: is it funny, culturally significant, artistically important?
Pro Tip: Use a cloud-based storage service like Google Drive or Dropbox to make your TikTok archive safe, secure, and backed up.
Beyond Video Saving: Growing Your TikTok Archive (Part Two)
Try to download everything you find interesting about TikTok, not just the videos. Get Touches:
Audio Files: Save the music, voices, or audio clips that you like from these TikToks.
Captions and Text Overlays: Take note of any captions or text overlays that are on the videos as these might encapsulate the essence of each piece.
Screenshots: Printscreen key the high points of these videos.
Metadata: Retrieve information about the videos, such as their hashtags, creator’s username and the number of likes/shares
Even After the Changes in Technology Retime Your Data to Memory (Yugenbe)