I hate Tiktok with a passion. The sheer amount of fake videos and "reaction" videos that people forward and post here and other platforms is the single most reoccurring source of annoyance on a daily basis.

Having said that, I don't blame Tiktok itself for people's stupidity.

Tiktok didn't make anyone into anything. It gave a platform for idiots to showcase their stupidity and rewarded them for it if they got a certain amount of views, clicks and followers.

It was easy money for the effort prompting copycats to emulate every viral video in hopes of cashing in on it as well, that resulted in a vicious cycle of people trying to out-stupid each other.

Some say Tiktok highlighted the stupid, silly, prank videos everywhere outside of China and did the opposite in China, highlighting and rewarding smart, science and educational videos. That maybe true, but they didn't force anyone into doing anything stupid. People did that willingly and viewers followed, liked and shared their videos willingly.

Blaming Tiktok is like blaming the camera for recording the stupidity. Or blaming WhatsApp for giving people the ability to share videos.