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Logo of TikTok. The online video platform TikTok has had worldwide a social, political, and cultural impact since its global launch in September 2016. The platform has rapidly grown its userbase since its launch and surpassed 2 billion downloads in October, 2020. It became the world's most popular website, ahead of Google, for the year 2021. [1]
TikTok might be gone — but its effects have changed us forever. Whatever happens to the app, the TikTokification of American life is here to stay.
Social media has grown in popularity, and many people around the world now use it. People use social media to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos). [ 1 ] Around 95% of young people between the ages of 13–17 use at least one social media platform, [ 2 ] making it a major influence on young adolescents.
As TikTok has gained popularity among young children, [199] and the popularity of extremist and hateful content is growing, calls for tighter restrictions on their flexible boundaries have been made. TikTok has since released tougher parental controls to filter out inappropriate content and to ensure they can provide sufficient protection and ...
Even so, TikTok creators are bracing for a world of change. "The possibility of a TikTok ban is definitely raising red flags for us," Christine Ly and Olivya Soth, the minds behind viral slime ...
TikTok has long known its video livestreams encourage sexual conduct and exploit children yet turned a blind eye because it "profited significantly" from them, according to newly unsealed material ...
TikTok videos with the hashtag #mentalhealth have accumulated more than 20 billion views. And that's not counting # anxiety , which has almost 11 billion views, or #adhd , with close to 9 billion.
Since then, many artists have followed Lil Nas X's blueprint for success, turning TikTok into a hit-making hub. The app has produced viral new sensations (Doja Cat's "Say So," Glass Animals' "Heat ...