I have a lot of thoughts about the future of the internet that make me anxious. One of these is that we will all be increasingly expected to express ourselves via the medium of short form video. Has the static written word really become that boring? I don’t want to have to go through an editing process every time I want to share an opinion! 

That being said, I gain a lot of entertainment from the many millions of people who do choose to become devoted TikTok creators. Some of them do genuinely interesting and innovative things on their platform, and the rest are fun to watch in a human zoo kind of way. TikTok is no stranger to liars, clout chasers, and those who really need to log off for once, and it that way it’s no different to any other social media platform. It’s just a bit more colorful.