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TikTok is actually a great app. When I was a kid in the 00's my friends and I used to carry around a video camera to make music videos. With TikTok you can do it with your cell phone.

They beat SnapChat, FB and Instagram on experience.

Censorship is something serious to consider, but these are mainly kids making music videos. They aren't using it to organize campaigns.

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> these are mainly kids making music videos. They aren't using it to organize campaigns.

I think that's a dangerously naive interpretation of the platform (or any platform really), particularly when it involves children and young adult minds.

Go on.

https://bookandfilmglobe.com/education/youtube-kids-videos-a...

Have you seen the weird articles on Snapchat Discover? "Why I'm never taking my mom to an x-rated convention again" "How my kitten play fetish makes me feel less alone" "Why I've been dressing like a horse for twenty years"

If I had a teenage daughter, I'd feel much more comfortable with her using the Chinese tik-tok than whatever tabloid-level trash Snapchat is pushing these days. Some of these American media companies have just gotten weird

Shock factor click bait could be the reason if I were to guess.

I think you're too worried about that. I saw plenty of weird fetish shit on forums in my teens and I think I turned out okay, plus a preparedness to accept the breadth of weirdness in humanity. The main thing you should care about is teaching your daughter to recognize clickbait and worthless content.

"preparedness to accept the breadth of weirdness in humanity"

Why is it a good thing? Or even okay? Isn't it a slippery slope?

It's sickening to think of music and art as something that is great when its restricted to only be meaningless.

I don't think GP was trying to say that exactly, but I am glad you phrased it like this. It is indeed sickening to think of music and art as meaningless.

It's not the creation that's the problem. It's the dissemination of others' content and ads (and the choices in what gets promoted/highly ranked/etc).

There are certainly controversies to be had in music videos:

* Songs glorifying violence

* Songs about drugs

* (Partial) nudity

* Songs "belonging" to controversial groups and movements.

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