{"id":17122,"date":"2021-08-05T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17122"},"modified":"2021-08-05T00:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T00:00:28","slug":"the-tiktok-tokyo-olympics-how-athletes-like-tom-daley-and-liu-shiwen-became-social-media-influencers-at-a-games-with-no-fansunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=17122","title":{"rendered":"The TikTok-Tokyo Olympics: how athletes like Tom Daley and Liu Shiwen became social media influencers at a Games with no fansUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Australian diver Sam Fricker arrived in Tokyo for the Olympic Games, he had more than 600,000 followers and 20.4 million likes on TikTok.Little more than a week later and his already sizeable following had almost doubled thanks to the photogenic 19-year-old\u2019s posting of videos in which he trains, talks to fans and chomps on chocolates in the athletes\u2019 village cafeteria. And Fricker\u2019s big moment \u2013 he competes in the men\u2019s 10m platform on Friday \u2013 is still to come.Likewise proving a hit\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/people\/article\/3143841\/tiktok-tokyo-olympics-how-athletes-tom-daley-and-liu-shiwen-became?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Australian diver Sam Fricker arrived in Tokyo for the Olympic Games, he had more than 600,000 followers and 20.4 million&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}