If you fluff a joke in a TikTok, you've always got the option of deleting the video. Not so much live on stage at the world's biggest performance arts festival.
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00:00If you fluff a joke in a TikTok, you've always got the option of deleting the video.
00:05Not so much live on stage at the world's biggest performance arts festival.
00:10But for a group of acts who've gained a large following on the app,
00:13that hasn't put them off taking their sets offline at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
00:18All that time posting on TikTok helped me build my confidence, says Courtney Buckner.
00:24Having that online platform where I could try things out and feel a little bit safer,
00:29she tells BBC Newsbeat. TikTok bosses noticed many people like Courtney trying to take their
00:35comedy from feeds to theatres this year and the platform has been announced as a sponsor of the
00:40festival. Courtney has had more than a million likes on her TikTok videos, which often include
00:46sketches around women's football. She didn't expect to be at this year's festival but when
00:51a slot opened up, she threw herself in. Now I'm ready to say to an audience,
00:57I'm opening this up to you and to live reactions. Rather than having a reaction in your room,
01:03and I don't get to see it, and you might not like it, and just swipe by, she says.
01:09Although Courtney says it's not something she's personally experienced,
01:13she knows there can be some snobbery about performers who've cut their teeth
01:16online rather than honing their craft in the real world.