Parisians on TikTok call: “Don't come” to Paris for the Olympics
“This is a video for anyone coming to the Paris 2024 Olympics,” one woman says in a clip posted to TikTok. She pauses briefly and then continues: “Don't come. Cancel everything."The video, uploaded in November, now has more than 700,000 views.The creator, Miranda Starcevic, is a 31-year-old French American living in Paris. She usually records herself speaking French, but she thought a message about the Olympics would reach more people if it were in English.And Starcevic wanted her viewers to know it from her point of view, that of French citizens who “belong to the middle class,” as she put it: “Nobody wants the Olympic Games. It's just a big mess.”As an international visual platform with many young users, TikTok is full of content about the Olympics. But beyond feel-good wind...