@stux I know this is just a silly meme, but the replies are making me sad. Y'all must be on a different TikTok than me, which makes sense, since there are infinite niches.

It's just another social platform, with all the issues that plague all social platforms. My feed is science educators and librarians and public media engaging meaningfully with Gen Z on their terms, the Trans Handy Ma'am helping folks who are traditionally excluded from handywork feel empowered to repair their own homes, a chemistry professor (and PhD) who posts seven-minute video essays on trans rights and the ethics of plastic consumption, deaf folks advocating for themselves, trans folks of all stripes expanding the possibilities of gender, endless crestive iterations and riffs on songs and trends...the list goes on.

Characterizing all of TikTok as zero-attention couch slobs who only engage with content that parrots one meme is easy, but it's lazy and reductive. Speaking as a core Millennial, it smacks of the exact same kind of generational dismissal that we decry Boomers for.