For all that it can feel this way, the internet is not forever. The infrastructure on which it is built is so varied and sprawling that there is every chance that something will happen in the future that will cause its massive reservoir of information to be lost, meaning that we could currently be living through a kind of digital dark age.

On the one hand, this is a scary thought. On the other, it gives us all the more excuse to post whatever wild and crazy BS happens to pop into our heads at any given time. This seems to be the philosophy shared by many TikTokers, who work around the clock to give us goofy entertainment that can give them a dubious digital footprint. If you don’t turn your life into content, are you even living at all? According to TikTok, the answer to this question can only be no.