TikTok is a popular social media app. Created in China under the parent company ByteDance, TikTok allows users to post and watch video content, much of which is relatively short (a few seconds to a few minutes, although users can post a video up to 60 minutes long). Tiktok largely seems to fill the void left by Vine's demise in the 2010s.

In the United States, TikTok has also been the subject of numerous controversies. Similar to other social media platforms, TikTok's algorithm has been criticized for prioritizing content which garners the greatest number of views, regardless of its effect on the viewer, and for its lack of safeguards for children ( a particularly notorious and heinous example being the "TikTok suicide," search at your own discretion). The United States has also alleged that TikTok harvests users' data to share with the Chinese government ("Hey! That's our data to sell to advertisers!")

As a result of these controversies, the Biden Administration passed a law

"Jesus said, 'Blessed is the person who's gone to a lot of trouble. They've found life.'"
—the Gospel of Thomas

I went out for a walk one day

and I saw a girl who was very sad.

She cried and she cried.

I asked her why but she wouldn’t say

and I looked down;

daisies grew in the grass at my feet.

I plucked one and smiled.

I gave her the flower.

I took my dog for a walk the next day

and I saw her again.

Still crying, still sad.

I asked her why but she still wouldn’t say

and I looked up;