![]() And since TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a company based in China, the fact that much of what TikTok is actually about, once you peek beneath the candy-colored surface of its endless-shopping-mall-of-videos, how-I-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-dopamine-hit mystique, is data mining (the targeting of you, the user, as a consumer, who will be digitally read like a book and pitched products until your dying day), there are sizable geopolitical implications to the TikTok story. As a result, it has shaken up the hierarchy of the tech universe. It has been downloaded over two billion times, making it bigger than Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Twitter. The sheer hugeness of the app is its own paradigm-shifting story. Shalini Kantayya Returns to Sundance With Doc 'TikTok, Boom' About the Social Media Giant Trans TikTok Star Jesse Sullivan Stars in Trailer for New Documentary 'My Transparent Life' (EXCLUSIVE) 'American Idol' Creator Simon Fuller Unveils First Group Formed on TikTok, The Future X There are the people who are on it: the makers of those videos, who could be just about anyone and might be doing it just for kicks, though what a lot of them want to be, if they can go viral enough, are influencers - the elite echelon of TikTok stars who have made themselves over into brands, based on a look or a talent or a signature or some combination of the above, and who succeed in attracting the attention of companies who will pay them to be casual endorsers of some product. #TIKTOK BOOM PATCH#There are the countless people who consume it: the kids from all over the world who get addicted to watching the up-to-three-minute-long videos (dances, pranks, sexy flaunts, tutorials, monologues, protest messages) as if they were popping Sour Patch Kids. Yet as Shalini Kantayya’s sprightly, informative documentary “TikTok, Boom.” makes clear, there are more levels to the TikTok phenomenon than there are to almost any other blockbuster app. With murky terms of service and a confusing privacy policy, maybe the app is not all it's made out to be.TikTok, the omnipresent video-based social-media app that launched five years ago, has always seemed a less serious, more frivolously youthquakey destination than a number of other online networking services - most obviously Facebook. Some stories are more concerning, as certain creators become muted while others are pushed to the top of public pages. While the app lures in most users with fun dance trends and cute cat videos, creators speak of their successes and questionable declines when posting political opinions and sharing criticism about the app itself. Diving headfirst into the origin story of the world's most downloaded app, Kantayya takes us through its Chinese ownership, geopolitical concerns and, most importantly, user experience. Shalini Kantayya is back with her latest documentary, TikTok, Boom. This Big Ideas discussion will also be available to stream online with the film. Hosted by Hannah Sung, journalist and co-founder of Media Girlfriends. director Shalini Kantayya is joined by Harvard University PhD candidate Avriel Epps-Darling for a conversation about the rise and impact of TikTok and what it means for tech companies, regulators, audiences and the creators that have become its stars. It’s more than a social media platform-TikTok has taken the world by storm, becoming the world’s most downloaded app. MAY 2, 6:30 PM // Big Ideas presented by Scotia Wealth Management ![]()
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