We’ll start with the bad news. No, you can’t quickly delete all of your TikTok videos from the social media platform (unless you’ve only created one or two of them). That’s by design. The app has never had a single button you can tap to remove all of your TikTok content, and no one has […]

If you were in your “partying” days (or simply a hip-hop fan) back in the early 90s, get your mind out of the gutter. “Opp” on TikTok isn’t a callback to the 1991 Naughty By Nature song O.P.P. (Sorry, we’re not going to explain O.P.P.’s risque meaning in the song. You’re on your own for […]

If you’ve spent enough time on TikTok to have seen a “Turbulence” video, you probably already know what the acronym NSFW means: not safe for work. That’s your fair warning. While there’s no overt nudity or sex in so-called Turbulence TikTok content, it’s implied — and if you’re easily grossed out, you may not want […]

TikTok was launched in 2017 as an international version of the Chinese social Douyin, and it had fewer than 20 million users. Its growth was jumpstarted in 2018 when TikTok was merged with the social media platform musical.ly, which Douyin had purchased the year before. TikTok grew quickly — and astronomically. The app had 350 […]

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 […]