They're only a new level of degeneracy if you pretend that sex workers aren't physically displaying themselves in windows or selling themselves on the street.

I hear you. I just want to point out that the same thing was said about video games in the last generation, and about comic books a couple of generations before that.

Or are they just more widely disseminated? Could it be that previous generations were as degenerated, but it never spread any further so in the end no one heard for all the stupid things that teens and kids did?

Lol, gotta love the moral panic on literally the oldest profession.

Tiktok isn't degeneracy, it's exactly what you expect to come out of a capitalism infused ad-based economy. It's a hostile market for your attention, what did you expect? Things that are entirely fueled by economic incentives and interests are not moral decay. The US has been like this since the very beginning. We literally promised the south not to ban slavery for a long time because otherwise they would not have voted to join the Union because it would hurt their economy to not own black human beings