Second to the booming business of so-called large language models, TikTok has increasingly become a place that people turn to for knowledge and advice. It is debatable whether this is any better than taking guidance from a robot, what with the general hysteria and misinformation we run into in most types of social media, but it’s something that people do nonetheless. 

Whether it is a good thing or not, users have shared so much of their lives (or a curated version of them) with the clock app that it has come to be viewed as an authority on many different things, from relationship advice to what restaurants to eat at. Most importantly, it purports to be entertaining while doing it, and that is what keeps so many coming back for more. In place of fine-tuning your FYP, we have collected some of the more random and amusing highlights here for your viewing pleasure.