​​Graffiti was almost synonymous with New York City in the 1980s. Billboards, buildings, and subways were decorated with hundreds of thousands of works in a myriad of different colors, sizes, and styles. In the eyes of most New York state officials, Graffiti was a crime which fell into two distinct categories. The first of these categories was that of criminal mischief. When viewed in this light, Graffiti was a public nuisance, an act of vandalism similar to that of breaking a window. However, Graffiti often took on a more sinister role within the second category as a societal threat. Graffiti had come to be viewed as an indicator of malicious influences on society, particularly correlated to urban gang activity. Neither of these two outlooks offer a nuanced understanding of Graffiti culture. While it was true that urban gangs used Graffiti to mark territorial boundaries, this was only a small portion of the Graffiti in New York, and Graffiti did not originate to serve these purposes. It is

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TikTok is a popular social media app. Created in China under the parent company ByteDance, TikTok allows users to post and watch video content, much of which is relatively short (a few seconds to a few minutes, although users can post a video up to 60 minutes long). Tiktok largely seems to fill the void left by Vine's demise in the 2010s.

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