More and more young Americans are filming themselves on TikTok, indicating that they vote against their parents or their spouse in order to counter their opinion. This new trend, called “cancel out” (“cancel”, in French), is becoming widespread on all social networks. It reveals the extent of a generational electoral divide that now reigns in most American families.
Many young voters on the social platform TikTok post videos about their voting intentions.
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Everyone explains that they want to “cancel” the newsletter of their loved ones, their friends, even that of their grandparents, announces, for example, this young Internet user: “ I’m sorry to anyone who has to cancel their living grandparents’ votes. I don’t have the same concern, because they are all dead and I don’t care if my vote doesn’t please them and they come to haunt me. And since 75% of my ancestors are immigrants, I wonder why you would vote for the man who always hated us. »
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Videos covering the popular concept of edicts
Clips of barely twenty seconds which are, for the most part, made in a humorous mode.
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The other particularity of these videos is that they are drowned in background music, mainly from K-pop or electro covers of the Star-Spangled Banner, the American national anthem.
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Generally, a simple explanatory text accompanies these videos. This is the case of this clip which has accumulated more than 9 million views since its creation in which we see a man followed and filmed by his daughter walking towards the polling station. “ Just a father and his daughter going to cancel each other’s vote » indicates, as a watermark, the text of the message.
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An America divided, but capable of cohabiting
Opposing political opinions can coexist, demonstrates one of these clips in which a young couple laughs at their political opposition. In an interview with the channel NBC Newsthe couple’s 19-year-old young woman explains that she staged this video to send a message of tolerance. Two people can live under the same roof, despite their opposing political opinions: “ most young women from generation Y or Z thus express their desire to “vote differently”, from a partner or a father. And I think this trend can have a significant impact on discussions between young women and their partners. With their parents too, because young people seem to be the key demographic in this election according to them. But again, this is an anecdotal clip. And it’s hard to know what’s really going on at the time of voting, you know. »
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Young voters support Democrat Kamala Harris
And recent survey indicates that six out of ten Generation Z voters, that is to say, people born in the late 1990s, would vote for the Democratic candidate.
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However, this Civil War election that is raging in the United States among families is not going to stop, that’s for sure.
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Online discussions are heating up on this American presidential election day. Internet users, Democrats or Trumpists, considering themselves more numerous than the other camp, imagine that they are going to give their adversary a beating.
A surge in vindictive messages on social networks, which corroborates a recent University of Illinois study. It reveals that nearly 30% of Americans, regardless of age, have a complicated, not to say conflicting, relationship with a loved one with opposing political views.
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