Inaugural TikTok Awards Created by TikToker
Ana Masere, the Fijian TikToker, who became widely followed after documenting her personal life on the social media platform has initiated an awards night for TikTok users in Fiji.
Bayview Cove Resort will play host to the inaugural event this Saturday, the resort where Ms Masere is the operations manager.
The event, which boasts a colourful choice of categories ranging from SunShine
TikToker Award, TikTok Drama Award and even a Villain TikToker
Award, has 34 awards altogether.
Ms Masere said she came up with the idea after seeing the influence that the shortform video hosting service, owned by China’s
ByteDance, had made in the country.
Her promotion at the resort prompted her more to organise the event.
“The resort will sponsor all the awards,” she said.
Ms Masere has worked with other TikTok users to make the night a reality.
“We have invited ten
Fijian TikTokers who look into the videos of the lists they have sent out. The award recipients are based on public vote on the night, so everybody who comes can place their votes.
We invited the non TikTok users too. We will give out forms to fill and which categories they are voting for. This is an encouragement award.
This is to encourage them for their effort in providing entertainment and videos on their social media app,” she said.
“There has been a music award in Fiji so we decided why not we actually thank them for whatever they are good at whether it is in comedy or advertising? Apart from entertainment,
TikTok has become more like advertising.
During the election a lot of our political members use TikTok to get to the public. It took us some time to get these categories out so we really had to watch a lot of Tik Tok videos. These categories are out and we are now posting it for people to nominate.”
The awards night will take place at the resort on the 14th of this month at 6pm.
Ms Masere said they are trying to liaise with some stakeholders for the award event.
She has been working on the award for the past three months.