[priansh]

I find this a bit disingenuous. TikTok videos have by far the highest reach of all social media due to their format and the way the for you page works. Moreover it rewards influencers from interacting with each other’s posts which often leads to top comments on TikTok (and Reels too although it’s much smaller as a platform) largely being an echo chamber.

1 post on Facebook might reach 100s, 1000s of people. Rarely a page with large enough following may hit 100,000s of people.

1 post on TikTok from a moderate influencer can hit millions.

That’s not to say other social media forms haven’t had bad trends in the past, but TikTok has had far more and in a far shorter amount of time. People just don’t interact with other social content the way they buy into TikTok, which is dangerous and leads to far more misinformation — it was maybe not even 3 weeks ago I had a bunch of my friends sending me a bunch of popular TikTok videos and asking about how AI Transformers were here and taking over the world (they are, but transformers in AI have nothing in common with the movies).