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Wichita Collegiate Middle School 9115 E. 13th St. N Wichita, KS 67206
MARCH 2022 * Issue 4
THE TIKTOK PHENOMENON The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
By Reghan Eck The new social media phenomenon, TikTok, has taken the world by storm! The app has allowed people to feel more comfortable with themselves, and actually 64% of the users say that they feel they can be their true selves on the app, according to statistics taken from Search Engine Journal. However, not everything about the app is great: the platform
has had some dangerous trends which could lead people to get injured. Throughout the few years TikTok has been around, it has allowed many people to gain a bigger following and get a bigger audience. It has allowed young people to have a voice where on other social media platforms they might have been silenced. Just like everything, there is always some good and bad.
The GOOD On the app you can not only do fun dances, you can duet people’s videos, add filters, make sounds, and create entertaining videos for the rest of the internet. Another thing about TikTok is how often people go viral. The platform has become a place for influencers to gain a bigger audience, people to tell their stories, others to come and be accepted for who they
are, or just a place to make someone laugh. The app has had over 2.6 billion downloads as of November 2021, which shows many people enjoy it. Many influencers on the app such as Charli D’Amelio, Addison Rae, and Noah Beck, and many others have gained their following by doing dances. (Continued on page 2)