How TikTok is Influencing Minds and Changing Culture: A Reaction Paper
McGowan, L. D. (2020). How TikTok is influencing Minds and Changing Culture is an article where it shows the negative and positive impacts of the said app and how it influences the people especially the young generation. It also tackles how it started and how it provides an instant fame to the users and shows how the increasing amount of racism, oversexualization and unrealistic contents are still on the run. Tiktok started as Douyin by the company ByteDance, that enabled users to create, share and view a 15-seconds clip of different activities and began to gain traction across Asia. The article revealed the strategy of the company ByteDance on how they eliminate their competitors by buying the Musical.ly. Douyin remained available in China, then the well-known app TikTok was launched globally. It created different trends that quickly captured the attention of Gen Zs that leads to some pressure due to the number of users thinking and worrying about how they should look. The art...