"We are all in big trouble! *Shock Emoji": Personal Narratives in Expressing Emotions, Opinions, and Data Regarding Climate Change in TikTok Short Videos
Climate change is a source of anxiety about the future. Understanding how people express themselves about climate change enables us to address such concerns. To study climate change expression on social media, we analyzed 200 TikTok videos tagged with #climatechange, identifying four categories of content: expression-feelings, views-appeals, news-information, and trend-hijacking. We found that creators use humor to package sharp critiques, avoiding direct confrontation. They replace complex disc
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Published: 13 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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