Your teen also never expected to use TikTok in the first place. The social group "decides" collectively. I'm positive that if TikTok were banned teens would find themselves on another service.
You're probably right, I still think it's neat to hear what my teen and their peers think. My teen is part of the generation that graduated from Musical.ly which they barely remember when I mention it. They grow up fast!
Realistically I think most of the TikTok content creators would go over to Reels and the net effect on attention-destroying time-wasting would be small.
I think YouTube shorts has a decent shot, as they can leverage the mega YouTube pool of creators.
I don't think shorts is going to take off if they continue with the gimped player.
Yep, TikTok is TV complete with channel surfing but make it social media. The clones don’t actually get that.
I've used YouTube shorts and it seems to be pretty much the same. It's basically YT video content, shortened and remixed.