Wednesday, February 18, 2026

To Pokimane, pt 25

I'm criticizing your latest TikTok video, on Arabian makeup, for having correct lip sync or audio sync at the end. The evidence, including comments by creators who are trying to get correct audio sync, strongly suggests that audio on the TikTok app is delayed by about 0.13 sec on a typical smartphone. I would recommend that any creator use multiple smartphones to view a simple test video and see if they differ in sync, and then repeat the test after restarting the devices.

Examples, all using the same song (viewed using Claptik):

Video by @frenchfuse

Video by @gordeewa__13

Video by @latina_rusin_ (dc @rayvlo)

A short clip looped many times, with gradual drift in audio sync by slowing video, would be the easiest way to measure a device's audio delay.

Your previous TikTok video, introducing your close friends, also had several instances of the start of words being cut off during editing.

The description of your video mentions Ramadan, a month which is given special significance. (Also, it's crazy that "Arabs of Tihamah, Hejaz, and Najd distinguished between two types of months, permitted (ḥalāl) and forbidden (ḥarām) months. The forbidden months were four months during which fighting is forbidden".) On the topic of religion, an exercise for the reader:

A hundred walked out of my lecture | Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

This article has good detail. The author did not understand the events that happened, but said enough for a reader to guess (unlike a description like, "I came home and misplaced my keys. Can you tell me where they might be?"). Why did this speaker say the things that she did, and why did her audience react as they did, instead of as she expected them to?

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