So, let’s get one thing out of the way: I don’t like TikTok. I think it is dumb. My friends send me TikToks and sometimes and I watch them and sometimes I don’t. I have some friends I can trust to send me good ones, but often I’m just like, “no, thanks,” because from what I have seen of TikTok it is just a repository of us at our most banal.
I am ALSO aware this puts me in a long, millenia old line of curmudgeons who just don’t like and don’t appreciate new mediums. I get it. The problem is probably not TikTok. The problem is me. [Read More]