Where are the teenagers now?
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 5:29 am
They were all very comfortable on TikTok … until Covid came along and the party was over. TikTok exploded during the months of lockdown, when millions of bored adults discovered that making short, funny videos was cool. And if adults liked it, teenagers ran away in terror.
There is nothing worse if you are a teenager than posting something on a social network and having your father or uncle leave you a like or, even worse, a comment. Correction, there is something worse: your parents or grandparents making supposedly funny videos on TikTok. As those of you who have children know, “it’s not funny” is the most repeated phrase between the ages of 13 and 20.
Forrest Gump after discovering a egypt business email database funny video of Aunt Lizzie on Tiktok / via GIPHY
So we are in the escape phase of TikTok. Where to?
The fact that I am a bit of a weirdo on social media (take a look at my Instagram or my Twitter, but not the professional one, the other one… if you can find it) has its advantages. Among them, I find out what twenty-somethings are doing because they follow me (it seems that they find me funny, at my age and with this appearance) so I think I am not far off if I say that several crossed phenomena occur:
There is nothing worse if you are a teenager than posting something on a social network and having your father or uncle leave you a like or, even worse, a comment. Correction, there is something worse: your parents or grandparents making supposedly funny videos on TikTok. As those of you who have children know, “it’s not funny” is the most repeated phrase between the ages of 13 and 20.
Forrest Gump after discovering a egypt business email database funny video of Aunt Lizzie on Tiktok / via GIPHY
So we are in the escape phase of TikTok. Where to?
The fact that I am a bit of a weirdo on social media (take a look at my Instagram or my Twitter, but not the professional one, the other one… if you can find it) has its advantages. Among them, I find out what twenty-somethings are doing because they follow me (it seems that they find me funny, at my age and with this appearance) so I think I am not far off if I say that several crossed phenomena occur: