We live in the golden era of short-form video, and it is all down to TikTok.

There is no social platform existing today that remains truly untouched by the influence of the clock app, because most of them want to cash in on just how addictive it is to endlessly scroll through random moving content and pictures that are increasingly tailored to what the algorithm deems to be your specific tastes. There is no getting around it; it has real appeal for those companies who have a vested interest in keeping our screen time up.

The thing that gets people hooked on TikTok is the way in which it seems to know what we want to see. If we don’t want to see it, we can easily swipe away and never have to think of it ever again. The TikTokers of the world promise to keep us entertained, give us something to think about, and give us what opinions we should have. When we are looking to be distracted from our worries and responsibilities, we really couldn’t ask for anything more.

However, one downside of this is that spending too much time telling the app exactly what it is that we want to see can make it become limiting. Sometimes it is good to expand our horizons and see what other levels of TikTok madness exist out there. One person’s FYP may be the kind of thing that would never come across another person’s screen in several lifetimes, but it is fun to see how somebody else exists sometimes.