Monday, June 1, 2020

How to TikTok Your Way Through Quarantine

Written By: Eric Dau

Throughout this quarantine, kids and their families thought up a plethora of creative activities in order to provide fun for the whole family. They've recorded themselves doing a variety of activities such as having their own Olympics, competing in challenges, battling it out in the sports world, and much more. These families cleverly record it on video, too. Where can we find these videos? Well, TikTok is your answer. TikTok has been the home to some of the most comical videos on the internet, and through quarantine it has only gotten better. However, this app has done surprisingly more than make people laugh.

These videos are receiving massive amounts of views and likes, and are encouraging others to make their own. One family TikTok trend was the "parent-kid question game," serving as family superlatives that are guaranteed to be fun for everyone.  Also, many different families have put their own twists on this game, spraying their kids with hoses and throwing pies at them to point out the answers! 

TikTok has achieved the unthinkable: uniting families, through the use of technology! Ironically, technology has always served as the culprit of disrupting quality time between parents and children. Many families can relate to the common scenario: everyone texting on their phones at dinner time instead of talking to the people in front of them. However, TikTok has challenged this norm by bringing families closer together instead! The app is inspiring families day by day to create fun and entertaining videos together for the world to watch. Luckily, the videos that families are creating are easy to do on your own. It is a simple way to have fun with your family with minimum time expenditure. TikTok could be used to make quarantine a more positive experience while reconnecting with your family.

TikTok is a great platform for individual activities as well. Singers like Jason Derulo have massively blown up on the app, and now he's got well over ten million followers. Not everyone is a celebrity– many teenagers have made funny, entertaining, or informational videos which get millions of views and likes, and now they are on Derulo's level!  Since there is only so much one can do during quarantine, go for it!

TikTok's rise to the top drastically increased and ever since the lockdown started in March, TikTok became the #1 entertainment app in the iPhone app store. It turned average teenagers such as Charli D'Amelio into millionaires just by posting fifteen second videos everyday!  Most importantly, TikTok has brought families together and helped people make it through this long, unprecedented quarantine.
What to Know About TikTok, Chinese App Gaining Global Appeal | Time
Source: Time.com


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