“Do you know that ‘scroller’ is basically French? It’s ‘to turn’, ‘to sort'”. From his first sentence, Stéphane Bern can’t help giving us a history lesson. And, this, even when he speaks of a social network that has been in vogue for several years: TikTok. A social network that has gained many users, especially during the period of confinement with the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, almost everyone has a TikTok account. And even stars that no one would have thought of.
However, the host of “Secrets of History” is also up to date and has his own account on TikTok as he was able to entrust to our colleagues from Konbini. An interview in which he notably indicated how he had been motivated to get started. “The day of a shoot, I have to interview a historian. In fact, he is a history teacher”explains the one who would be the grandson of Louis XIV, before continuing: “and he is used, precisely, on TikTok, to explain historical facts to his students. He explained to me how to make a video, edit it, send it, it’s impressive TikTok!”
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By getting to know this “history teacher”Yori’s companion then decides to register to become “@monsieurpatrimoine”: “I said to myself ‘what am I known for? Well, he’s the guy who makes the castles!'”. Now the host of France 2 spends a lot of time on the app and follows all kinds of accounts. Nevertheless, “all tourism accounts” and castles are favored by Stéphane Bern.
He seems to take great pleasure in scrolling as he confided with his legendary humor: “We take more pleasure horizontally, but sometimes vertically, we can also have fun (scrolling on TikTok is done vertically: editor’s note)”. In addition to having fun, Stéphane Bern also learns a lot thanks to the social network and what really pleases him are the “people who try to use this media to do pedagogy. To explain, to decipher phenomena. So I look at that”.
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