Is TikTok Losing Hype? With multiple social media platforms to choose from, junior Lawrence Delano expresses his opinion about if Tiktok’s popularity will last By Lawrence Delano Design By Ananya Ramanujapuram
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ikTok, a platform sharing short videos that has over 1 billion downloads, may be on it’s way to the social media graveyard like MySpace and Flickr. It had a good run, but it’s simply losing steam. 60 seconds just isn’t enough
time to create meaningful content. You can get a meme in, but inevitably it will be lost in a sea of shorter videos or used in a YouTube meme compilation. It’s better to just put it on YouTube in the first place, better algorithm, better monetizing, more user friendly, and YouTube is better at
removing traumatizing content before it can do much damage or get reposted. TikTok is great, as long as people don’t abuse it or use it inappropriately, which the internet will always find a way to do. In short, TikTok is far too easy to corrupt for mass use. It was a good run, but it’s time to take it down.
Tiktok has
1.1 billion
Tiktok has been downloaded over
2.6 billion
active users worldwide
times on the App Store and Google Play as of December 2020
Some popular trends on Tiktok in 2020 were
Tiktok was launched in
September 2016
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