For example if your interested in bike, can you find cool bike related stuff ? Or is it just some people doing funny thing with some music on it ?
I tried it a few months ago and found only funny videos.
It's cool but it's not what's going to create a account on it.
I like Instagram or YouTube because I can follow thing I'm interesting in.
In a sense it is very pure; it is not about anything specific and, more importantly, it is not about showing a fake, happy, successful version of yourself.
While I am too old to participate in it, as a medium it looks more healthy in term of living with your online persona (compared to insta-models and travel vlogging).
> It's cool but it's not what's going to create a account on it.
The reason to create an account would be not to watch videos but to make videos. In that tiktok feels a bit like a teenager version of a twitter, youtube chimera.
None of that says "real" to me. It was all about showing how happy and successful they were.
On Instagram there is a tendency to push for that one perfect photo, on tiktok it looks like there is more a push for content. (obviously there is a continuity between them)
Especially with the "reply" functionality (I don't know how it is called, but you can reply to other users's video by making your own video that will appear the the side) the posts are often in the style of commentary.
In terms of online persona, on tiktok it is almost natural to post a video of your pimples/acne as funny video while on IG it would feel strongly out of place.