The story, which has now led to a “digital guillotine” being erected on Tiktok, is about a mob that destroys everything. This year’s theme for the Met Gala, which took place in New York on May 6, was “Garden of Time,” an allusion to a short story by JG Ballard about a countess and a count who live in a villa with a garden, crystal flowers with translucent leaves grow there, fragile beauty, but outside “a thousand voices” are rioting, until finally “darkness falls upon them like a sword” and the rioters storm the garden.
What the “digital guillotine” on Tiktok reveals about the social web – culture
