You don’t have to be a long-time social media user to know what hashtags are. The word has become so familiar that it appears in all standard English dictionaries. For the few people still unfamiliar with social apps, though, here’s a quick summary. Hashtags are words or phrases preceded by the hashtag sign (#) and […]

In a word, no. It’s natural to want as much validation as possible for all the work you put into creating your TikTok content. The number of people who’ve viewed, liked, shared, reposted, and commented on your posts can make you feel like it was all worth it. The number of engagements your video receives […]

You’ve found a TikTok post that promises to demonstrate a cool new technique for making your favorite recipe. But then you find yourself watching the content creator just chopping vegetables and doing other prep work for 2-3 minutes before he gets to the important stuff. It’s annoying. There’s no reason you have to waste your […]

Some users deliberately violate TikTok’s terms and conditions or Community Standards. They may have joined the social media platform specifically to harass or spam people, steal people’s content and reuse it — or just to be a jackass. Most TikTok users try to play by the rules, though. If they happen to violate the app’s […]

It’s possible to get sick of just about anything — including TikTok. If you find yourself getting bored on the social media platform, your first impulse might be to delete your account. That could be a rash decision, though; you’d lose all of the TikTok videos you’ve created, any DMs you might want to refer […]

Most social media platforms make it easy to create videos, and TikTok is arguably the best. The apps usually don’t make it easy to use the TikTok posts you see in your feed for other purposes, though, and TikTok can be one of the worst. There are copyright and other legal reasons for the restrictions […]