Collected Item: “TikTok Saving Millions from Boredom During the Pandemic”
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TikTok Saving Millions from Boredom During the Pandemic
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App on phone
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
I chose this because I think it was actually really significant during the pandemic, and also just in 2020. TikTok is an app where people create 60 second videos, it can be dancing, making food, doing pranks, whatever you want. TikTok started becoming popular in 2019, but it really blew up in March when we were all stuck inside. I know from myself, I spend endless hours on TikTok, so did the rest of my family, even my parents. I haven’t met anyone who didn’t go on TikTok, or at least see TikToks online during lockdown, it was everywhere. I think this is significant to the pandemic and 2020, because it was how most of us kept busy, around the world. We were all watching the same videos, doing the same dancing trends, cooking the famous food for that week, etc. TikTok now has 850 million users.
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#TikTok, #TikTokInQuarantine, #TikTokInPandemic #dances
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https://www.tiktok.com/en/
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
CEO’s: Kevin Mayer, Zhang Yiming
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2020-03-31