Pigfarts Professors: Looking back at TikTok’s pandemic-era storytelling renaissance

 StarWhispers Podcast EP 01 
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How roleplaying a fairytale apocalypse on TikTok led to Trystan and Lou finding each other, their own gender identities, and an unexpected storytelling phenomenon.
The oral history of a TikTok renaissance broken down by two of the people who were in the thick of it, and athe accidental real-life story of self discovery and love that came out of it.

Starting off with a tag we are retroactively calling the “#PigfartsProfessors” story, we talk about how TikTok's duet feature accidentally invented a new form of collaborative storytelling, what it was like to create the Asunderland universe and watch as the tag accumulated over 60 million views, and the way Lou and Trystan spent six months romancing each other through fictional characters before actually talking to each other about it.
Also discussed: what queer time actually is, the specific film education that happens when you spend two years as cosplayers making cinema on their phones, and why being cringe is good actually.

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