The old phrase is that the sessions National Assembly in recent years, it has become "reality-like", recently it has been overcome. Or to express it in the spirit of the topic - it has become "boomer". Since the audience that follows the political events in the country - everyone is doing well known reasons - extended from exclusively the elderly to the young, regular parliamentary schizophrenia received some new interpretations within the framework of youth culture.
"God help the advanced fools"
Young people do not watch broadcasts of parliamentary sessions, but watch segments through social networks. When the average young person comes across, for example, a video of how MP Miloš Parandilović of the New Face of Serbia introduces his speech with "God help the advanced fools" instead of "Honorable people's deputies", the urge to make fun of it is inexorable.
Although this kind of discourse in one of the most important institutions in the country (and there were, to be fair, much worse examples) should have caused a similar reaction in every citizen regardless of age, young people have simply never encountered it before, while older people somehow "Googled it".
The lack of knowledge of parliamentary rhetoric among young people, combined with the opportunities provided by social networks, have a huge potential for "miming".
Assembly of Serbia core
There were political "TikToks" long before the student rebellion, when compilations were made with Srđan Milivojević's "hide and seek", Lazović's recitation of Maja Berović or Vulin's "write as it is written, read as it says".
But, in recent months, there has been an expansion. Everyone is constantly in the media and many are constantly shedding "pearls". It would be impossible to list them all.
There were some important milestones in this parallel internet universe, such as the day when members of the Parliament interrupted the session with smoke bombs. That session was the source of material that supplied TikTokers and mimers for several months.
Somewhere then, perhaps the most interesting form emerges - "core", in which an attempt is made to explain the "core" of a phenomenon with short excerpts taken out of context.
Vesić's understanding of TikTok
Politicians and the people around them have realized the potential that lies in the networks for recruiting future voters, for whom the traditional shaking hands with peasants or hugging animals and small children no longer works.
The strongest breakthrough into youth culture was attempted by Goran Vesić, who did not miss a single TikTok trend. The President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, was guessing what type of cola he was drinking, beating Vučević in a sports quiz and flipping kebabs.
His predecessor Boris Tadić, on the other hand, tried to address young people on TikTok in a dignified and serious way, to break out of the mold of this network, which turned out to be as funny as the frivolous approach of the progressives.
It even went as far as Saša Radulović giving love advice to a young man, telling him to "make the first move".
How TikTok "ate" politicians
However, every breakthrough strategy towards the young and future electorate, despite the well-paid PR teams, ended ingloriously.
Attempts by politicians to find their way in a field they do not understand were only counterproductive. Instead of establishing communication with the kids through the networks, they became their Internet "victims", and the content they create continued to live exclusively through "mimes".
If politicians' battle with TikTok culture is already lost, maybe it would be best for them to at least try to be original and really understand that world. Well, let the internet judge them later.
