{"id":5087,"date":"2025-04-19T00:13:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2025-04-19T00:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T16:13:21","slug":"tiktok-lifestyle-content-creators-and-social-media-authenticity-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5087\/tiktok-lifestyle-content-creators-and-social-media-authenticity-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Lifestyle Content Creators and Social Media Authenticity Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract: This paper examines the complex relationship between authenticity and content creation on TikTok, particularly focusing on lifestyle influencers and the challenges they face in maintaining genuine self-expression. TikTok\u2019s unprecedented growth, with over one billion users globally and exceptional engagement rates, has created an environment where authentic content paradoxically becomes increasingly manufactured and performative. Through analysis of the authentic performance phenomenon, <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5087\/tiktok-lifestyle-content-creators-and-social-media-authenticity-crisis\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: This paper examines the complex relationship between authenticity and content creation on TikTok, particularly focusing on lifestyle influencers and the challenges they face in maintaining genuine self-expression. TikTok\u2019s unprecedented growth, with over one billion users globally and exceptional engagement rates, has created an environment where authentic content paradoxically becomes increasingly manufactured and performative. Through analysis of the authentic performance phenomenon, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5088,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions\/5088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}