{"id":7719,"date":"2024-04-14T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/14\/you-can-be-normal-you-can-have-acne-tiktok-star-gk-barry-on-the-appeal-of-social-media-personalities-4\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T17:01:07","slug":"you-can-be-normal-you-can-have-acne-tiktok-star-gk-barry-on-the-appeal-of-social-media-personalities-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/14\/you-can-be-normal-you-can-have-acne-tiktok-star-gk-barry-on-the-appeal-of-social-media-personalities-4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You can be normal. You can have acne!\u2019 TikTok star GK Barry on the appeal of social media personalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Keeling says TV needs more authenticity and better representation if it wants to attract younger viewers<\/p>\n<p>TV should \u201cmove with the times\u201d, take risks and be less \u201cpolished\u201d in order to attract younger audiences, the TikTok star Grace Keeling has said.<\/p>\n<p>Record numbers of young viewers are switching off traditional television in favour of short-form content, according to the media regulator, Ofcom, with Enders Analysis suggesting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2023\/aug\/03\/british-tv-viewing-in-decline-as-older-audiences-join-shift-to-streaming\">30% decline<\/a> in 16- to 34-year-olds watching TV shows with their parents over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/apr\/14\/you-can-be-normal-you-can-have-acne-tiktok-star-gk-barry-on-the-appeal-of-social-media-personalities\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Keeling says TV needs more authenticity and better representation if it wants to attract younger viewers TV should \u201cmove with the times\u201d, take risks and be less \u201cpolished\u201d in order to attract younger audiences, the TikTok star Grace Keeling has said. Record numbers of young viewers are switching off traditional television in favour of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}