Stitch (TikTok)
A TikTok format where you clip a short piece (up to 5 sec) of someone else's video as the intro to your own — and then respond, comment, or build on it. TikTok's version of "quoting" and replying.
Mechanic: choose "Stitch" on a video, cut the piece you want to reference, and record your continuation after it. Use case: answer a question someone asked, address an opinion, add context, or use a prompt as a springboard for your own content. Stitch functions as the platform's "conversation thread" — videos respond to videos in chains, and a popular prompt can spawn hundreds of stitched replies. Distinct from Duet (side by side, parallel) by being sequential (their clip first, yours after). Together with Duet, the core of TikTok's remix and reply culture, comparable to Twitter's quote-tweet but in video form. Related to duet and quote-tweet.