I still don’t get the draw and purpose of Tik-Tok. What does it do that various other social media outlets don’t do?
youtube copied them with their video shorts
series of short videos that load automatically
one after the other
it has an addictive quality
From what I can see it is for people with a super short attention span - video shorts of people doing crazy funny stuff.. seems mostly apolitical to me.
My only experience of it is people sending me links to some short video of something they thought was funny. They typically last about 10 seconds and then automatically load the next video - I think people get addicted and keep cycling through these random videos until they get bored:
It draws in millions of the young and ignorant like a magnet. Many of them vote.
I guess it’s convenient to post short clips.