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‘Uh oh … boom!’: TikTok is in love with simulated shipwrecks

‘Uh oh … boom!’: TikTok is in love with simulated shipwrecks

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/12/tiktok-is-in-love-with-simulated-shipwrecks

Fans say the use of an accurate physics engine to reimagine historic shipwrecks makes it ‘difficult to look away’

A shark swims slowly and serenely beneath the Bismarck seconds before it sinks deep into the ocean. Seemingly out of nowhere, the battleship tilts and falls; its bow crashes on to the seabed. Its hull floods before briefly resurfacing out of the water. Then the voiceover says: “Oh! Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh! Boom!” The Bismarck snaps in half and sinks.

‘Uh oh … boom!’: TikTok is in love with simulated shipwrecks

Jan 12, 2023, 7:14am UTC
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/12/tiktok-is-in-love-with-simulated-shipwrecks > Fans say the use of an accurate physics engine to reimagine historic shipwrecks makes it ‘difficult to look away’ > A shark swims slowly and serenely beneath the Bismarck seconds before it sinks deep into the ocean. Seemingly out of nowhere, the battleship tilts and falls; its bow crashes on to the seabed. Its hull floods before briefly resurfacing out of the water. Then the voiceover says: “Oh! Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh! Boom!” The Bismarck snaps in half and sinks.