The Dating Wrapped trend on TikTok takes inspiration from Spotify’s annual Wrapped event where Spotify users are presented with their year-end listening statistics. Dating Wrapped repackages fundamental components of Spotify’s Wrapped—a focus on aesthetics, PowerPoint-like presentation of information, and quantification of personal experiences—but does so in the context of interpersonal relationships as a dating year-in-review video on TikTok. This article applies a content analysis and critical thematic analysis to 54 TikTok videos with the hashtag DatingWrapped as a way to understand how sensemaking about sexual and romantic relationships occurs when individuals create content centered around self-disclosures of intimate experiences. Ultimately, we argue that trends such as Dating Wrapped provide opportunities for personal expression among emerging adults who use TikTok, the efficacy of which is enhanced by attention to data visualization within its presentation format. Second, TikTok trends centered around interpersonal relationships may influence the formation of sexual and romantic identities through processes of mediated learning about relationships.

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TikTok 上的中介性和浪漫学习：约会包裹趋势


TikTok 上的 Dating Wrapped 趋势的灵感来自 Spotify 的年度 Wrapped 活动，在该活动中，Spotify 用户会看到他们的年终收听统计数据。 《Dating Wrapped》重新包装了 Spotify 的《Wrapped》的基本组成部分——注重美学、类似 PowerPoint 的信息呈现以及个人经历的量化——但它是在人际关系的背景下作为 TikTok 上的约会年度回顾视频来实现的。本文对 54 个带有 DatingWrapped 标签的 TikTok 视频进行了内容分析和批判性主题分析，以此来了解当个人创建以亲密经历的自我披露为中心的内容时，关于性和浪漫关系的意义建构是如何发生的。最终，我们认为，诸如“Dating Wrapped”之类的趋势为使用 TikTok 的新兴成年人提供了个人表达的机会，而通过关注其演示格式中的数据可视化，可以增强其功效。其次，以人际关系为中心的 TikTok 趋势可能会通过对关系的中介学习过程影响性和浪漫身份的形成。