This study examines the impact of video hosting on the processof creating a publicly available record of people's lives. The popular publicnetwork Tik Tok is a platform for creating and publishing short videos. Userscommunicate by creating and posting their own video material. It turns out to bea difficult task to single out meaningful video content from the whole mass of avery bizarre, and sometimes farcical spectacle that has filled the Internet space.Nevertheless, from the total mass of video messages, we can crystallize singleauthors, whose videos offer evidence of the creator’s interest in the lifestyle ofan ordinary man, his workdays, life events, videos which seem authentic andsincere, deal with significant social issues. We observe the of convergence ofthe creative and technical sides of the filming processes, when the authors ofthe video, who also appear as characters, camera operators, editors all in one,provide video content in the public network space.The means of interactive communication with the audience contributes to theemergence of a sense of empathy for the author, who presents reality through theconceptualization of his own experience. The example of the videos by a teenagegirl who found herself in an orphanage and whose means of communicationwith the outside world was a mobile phone camera, demonstrate the demand forthe Tik Tok video hosting platform by the younger generation. The author of thevideo messages, capturing the reality in the form of a confessional monologuewith the viewer, finds strong support from the audience. At festival venues,nominations in the category of videos by amateur users of video platforms arebecoming increasingly common, thus the video hosting platform is consideredas an accessible digital environment offering the possibility to present the issuesof concern for an author. The emergence of Internet platforms for the freeviewing of the accumulated cultural heritage of documentary films will makeit possible to popularize interest in the image of a real hero, whose spiritual andmoral values will contribute to the meaningful recording of reality.