Yes, so much content aimed at driving consumerism, creating trends and fads for the latest fashion and gadgets, peer pressure to follow them.

I find it adorable when young children are presented with some expensive present, they cry out in delight.. and start playing with the wrapping paper, ignoring the gift.

Then perhaps kids shouldn't have unrestricted access to social media? There are a whole host of societal and sociological problems that things like tiktok bring (remember the tide pods fiasco, and any number of things since then?)

Maybe it's just the people I know, but my (male) cousins who use TikTok and Insta basically just find stupid/inappropriate memes to laugh at with their mates.

TikTok and Instagram expand people’s social context beyond what it would be otherwise because of geography plus the strong existing force of race, subculture, and class (both imposed- and self-) segregation, yes.