TikTok is democracy in its rawest form. All that matters on the video-sharing platform is mass appeal and virality (so long as it does not offend the sensibilities of the Chinese Communist Party). The app debases its users to anonymous atoms, equal to everyone else, only powerful insofar as they belong to a crowd. Content succeeds on TikTok not because it is inherently good, but rather because it is merely popular. As with so many corners of the Internet, the leveling force of online democracy reduces the people to the lowest common denominator.
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