Similar to viewing a video, you’ll just have a few more features here along the top and bottom. Here’s another screen grab of what you’ll see when you open the app: Creators can go into the hashtag generator when they post and pick trending and popular hashtags with the hope of getting more eyes on their video. You’ll see that one a lot, but you’ll also see very random hashtags that have nothing to do with the videos. For all you King’s grads out there – #fyp is not The Foundation Year Program, #fyp is ‘for you’ page. Hashtags on this app are seemingly random. This is where you’ll see a caption, tags (like on Twitter/Instagram) and hashtags. You’ll also see a ‘use this sound’ button where you too can join the others and do your own video with this sound clip. There are 9.8 million videos that have used that sound clip and you can scan through all 9.8 million on that page. For example – ‘Savage’ by Megan Thee Stallion is currently one of the most popular sounds. You’ll be able to see the original poster and all the other videos that have used that sound. If you click the sound, you’ll end up on a ‘profile’ for that sound. The purple circle is key here – this is the sound link. The share button also gives you the option to report videos. Using the share button, you’ll also see options to save the video to your phone and to duet the video. Normally I just grab the url and flip that to friends, but you can also share videos to all your other platforms. I love sending TikToks that make me laugh to friends. This is my personal favourite thing to do. In the blue circle you’ve got the share feature. Heads up – you do need an account to leave a comment. There is a space at the bottom to add your comment and give Tyler some positive feedback about his dance moves. In the green circle – we’ve got comments. So it has to be a quick double tap or else you’ll just pause and play the video. Note if you tap once, you’ll pause the video. To add your like to the count, you can hit on the heart or double tap the video to give it a like. We’ve got the current like count – 113.6k people have liked this video of him and his boys dancing. In the yellow circle – this is the classic ‘like’. Click on his profile pic, and you’ll get taken to his full profile to get lost in his many shirtless videos. In the red circle – we have Tyler Cameron’s profile. I took a screengrab of this lovely Tyler Cameron and his quarantine crew on TikTok to show you how this all works if you are on the app. For our purposes, I’m going to link videos here from the web version. This is an app that’s not made for desktops – and the best way to view videos is on the app. I’m here for that content.įor example, this is a lovely Tiger King golden retriever TikTok that recently came on my ‘For You’ #dog #goldenretriever #carolebaskins Somehow the app also knows that I like puppies and I get a lot of golden retrievers on my ‘For You’ page – and I’m not complaining. For example – while at home, I’ll get a lot of ‘Toronto’ videos, but when I was in Ottawa for work recently, I got quite a few ‘Ottawa/Quebec’ videos. The app knows where you are in the world and will often recommend you local content. My ‘For You’ page will look different from your ‘For You’ page – but we’ll see a lot of the same videos because viral videos often end up on the ‘For You’ page. This is a page of a seemingly unlimited stream of videos that using an algorithm the app thinks you’ll like. When you open the app, you’ll be on the ‘For You’ page. That might change… but right now I’m happy just viewing videos rather than making them. The best way to explain TikTok is to walk you through what you can experience when you open the app.įirst off – you do not need a TikTok account to use the app. However – these days TikTok is very much it’s own thing. Vine in the sense that people upload short videos – mostly comedy videos and Musically because it’s a lot of lip syncing and dancing. I like to describe it as a cross between Vine and Musically. Videos posted to TikTok are usually at least 15 seconds long and no more than 60 seconds. Users make videos and post them for their followers (or really, anyone) to see. TikTok is an app developed by a Beijing company that launched in 2017. If none of those last two sentences made any sense to you, we’re going to clear this all up. I have favourite creators and am currently very into the Daisy vs the Hype House drama. I waste hours of my life scanning through the ‘for you’ page and find myself humming “TikTok” songs in public. When the Girls in my unit started using it obsessively last spring, I got on to be ‘hip with the kids’. The craze that the kids have been on for at least a year, that you hear all about, but don’t really ‘get’. You’ve been curious for a while, but covid has made you hit that ‘download’ button.Īh TikTok. So now that we’ve all watched Tiger King and you’ve hit the bottom of humanity, it’s time to download TikTok.
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