

“This is just like the Capitol in The Hunger Games!” a dolled up teen girl beside me remarks, a little too gleefully. As we take our seats at the packed TikTok Entertainment Centre in Sydney with the 8,000 other attendees, all dressed in gowns with professionally done make up, I can’t help but silently agree. It is not until the show starts that I fully grasp how correct she is. The TikTok Awards is an event ripped straight from Black Mirror.