TikTok is entertainment Cheetos
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TikTok is entertainment Cheetos
When you begin your TikTok journey, you are not faced with a choice of accounts to follow. Where Twitter and Instagram ask you to build your list yourself (the former more than the latter) TikTok simply launches you into the waterfall of content.
Kyle Chayka • Essay: How do you describe TikTok?
People talk about TikTok like it’s a drug / opium / consumption crisis, but it has an equally toxic effect on the creators, who are turning into robotic NPCs busking for virtual tips.
After a while, there is a certain tedium to TikTok. The feast becomes overwhelming. Our taste buds dull. Our eyes dry. TikTok understands that once you start scrolling, it is so very hard to stop.