Due to its humorous TikTok account, the Milwaukee library has become an internet sensation.
The most recent viral video uploaded by the Milwaukee Public Library depicted a 90-year-old woman flipping the bird in response to the notion that she was too old to borrow manga novels.
Since it was launched in November, the video has had 2,300,000 views, and it is just one of countless inventive TikToks that have been attracting users to the page.
An elderly woman turns away from the camera when it is said she is too old to read manga.
Due to its inventive films, the Milwaukee Public Library’s TikTok account has become quite popular.
In the video, a woman is shown approaching a shelf of manga volumes in a library, with the text ‘You’re 78, you can’t read Manga’ superimposed over the image.
The woman ambles up to the rack, peruses a few titles, and then removes a book.
In response to the idea that she is too old to enjoy Japanese comics, she gives the middle finger to the camera and sticks out her tongue.
The video suddenly flashes, ‘I’m 90,’ as the woman puts on sunglasses and goes away.
The elderly lady walks up to the manga graphic novel shelf in the library.
The woman disapproves of the assumption that she is too old to read manga.
After reprimanding the photographer, the woman dons sunglasses and leaves with her book.
The video has accumulated over 10 million views on TikTok and Instagram.
It is just one of the numerous movies the library has used to entice consumers to peruse its shelves.
The city’s libraries recently returned with full service following the pandemic, and only last month nearly faced a $1.9 million funding cut, while also attempting to advertise themselves through social media.
Other videos include one edited to make it appear that the rapper Saweetie is strutting through the library to use the restroom, employees using archival materials to solve a mystery in a parody of a Stranger Things episode, and making fun of patrons who use self-checkout to stealthily obtain erotica.
After the pandemic, the Milwaukee Public Library has only lately resumed normal operations.
The elderly woman in the Manga video is the grandmother of Fawn Siemsen-Fuchs, a 38-year-old library clerk who is responsible for compiling the movies.
Siemsen-Fuchs creates the video content and recruits volunteers to appear in it.
Derek Reilly, a 32-year-old research and policy coordinator who films and edits TikToks, is her coworker.
The fact that we’re both in our 30s definitely caused people to question whether or not our work would be excellent or interesting, Reilly told the Wall Street Journal.
He stated that their work experience at the library enables them to create engaging videos.
He stated, “I don’t believe an intern who is unfamiliar with the library could develop this content.”
Visits to the library and library card sign-ups have surged in recent months, the library informed the Wall Street Journal, but it is unclear whether or not social media is to blame, given its popularity coincides with the reopening of its branches.
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