Comic : TikTok and the short-form video(图)

发布 : 2024-11-13  来源 : 明报新闻网


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【明报专讯】The Smarties and Eason are absorbed in their smartphones. What is capturing their attention?

■Know more

Zhang Yiming(张一鸣), born in 1983, is a prominent Chinese Internet entrepreneur best known for founding ByteDance, the company behind TikTok and Douyin. Raised in Fujian, Zhang studied software engineering at Nankai University, where he developed a passion for technology. He was inspired to create TikTok after noticing a growing demand for personalised, easily consumable content, with people turning to smartphones for quick entertainment.

He launched Douyin in China in 2016, followed by TikTok's global debut in 2017. TikTok was the first platform to achieve massive global success in popularising short-form video content, even before Instagram's Reels and YouTube's Shorts.

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Be one step ahead of somebody

''Be one step ahead of somebody'' is an idiom which means to be more prepared, quicker or clever than someone else.

e.g. She studied hard to be one step ahead of her classmates.

To win the game, you need to be one

step ahead of your opponent.

■Glossary

meme (n) 迷因

raise (v) 抚养

demand (n) 需求

launch (v) 发布

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[Smarties' Power English 第421期]