With spoiler season underway for Wilds of Eldraine, the highly anticipated expansion for Magic: The Gathering, TikTok content creators are out in full force, creating videos in which they silently point and nod vehemently at spoilers they like.
“I knew I had to get on camera when the new Bitterblossom was spoiled,” said TikToker Bryan McTwinny, also known as WalmartSamwise. “Two new versions! New flavor text! If I didn’t make a video with me pointing and nodding at this new card, then someone else would have. TikTok is highly competitive and making your claim as a trendsetter is important.”
McTwinny went on to describe how his videos are tuned to give him the edge over other similar content.
“People may think it’s low-effort content since we’re just pointing and nodding at something someone else made. It’s so much more than that. Those of us who have perfected the art of the point-and-nod had to Google how to do it in the first place. It’s not like there’s a filter that automatically points and nods at other people’s content for you. We have to do it manually. Also, it takes a lot of work to figure out which song is being played in four billion other videos so when people see your content, they can express how much they love hearing that one fucking song yet again.”
Not only is McTwinny positive his new content will be a hit but feels a sense of duty to create it.
“I learned that before TikTok people had to figure out what content to enjoy without anyone pointing and nodding at it. Can you imagine that? How is anyone supposed to care about content unless it’s given the highest form of validation: an outstretched finger. Its similar to responding to a comment on reddit by typing “this” as a form of validation. I can’t imagine a time people were supposed to understand which Magic cards are important without help! How? Reading the card? We all know no one does that.”
At time of press WalmartSamwise was seen recording videos that made outlandish claims about unannounced cards by providing evidence by pointing at other videos making the same claim which contained someone else pointing at a third video. And so on.