If you’re not a regular viewer of TikTok Live streams, you may never have heard of TikTok coins. They can be purchased in the Live sessions, directly through your TikTok profile page, on the platform’s website, or from third-party sellers. However, they can’t be exchanged by individual users on the social media platform, they can’t […]

Some of the mysterious terms, abbreviations, and acronyms commonly used on TikTok are particularly baffling because they have more than one meaning. For example, one TikTok user might say that someone is “preening” to imply that they’re obsessively concerned with perfecting and showing off their appearance, while another might call a preteen who dresses and […]

When people ask, “How do you ban a TikTok user?” they could be asking two very different things. They might want to know how to stop someone from seeing their TikTok content and profile, commenting on their TikTok posts, harassing them in DMs, or bothering them in any way. They might be asking how to […]

Readers who took multiple math classes in high school may be familiar with the Greek letter sigma (∑). It’s used to represent the sum of multiple numbers, while a lower-case sigma (σ) represents a “standard deviation” in the discipline of statistics. It’s highly unlikely, though, that any TikTok user is talking about sums or standard […]

Those who only visit TikTok occasionally are likely to come across acronyms they don’t understand. FYP (For You Page) and DC (dance challenge) are specific to the social media platform and quickly deciphered. Figuring out others, like DNI (do not interact) and BBL (Brazilian butt lift), may require new TikTok users to spend hours on […]

Some social media platforms, like YouTube, are primarily sources of entertainment. Others, like LinkedIn, are mostly valued for the interactions between users that they promote. TikTok provides both functions. Needless to say, many of the two billion+ TikTok users spend almost all of their time on the app scrolling their feeds to check out the […]