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TikTok increasingly feels like the final frontier

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Aug 11, 2022
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Just when I thought I was out, they keep pulling me back in…

Some readers might remember that I started a TikTok page last year and was briefly obsessed with the app:

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At that time, I had to push beyond the stereotype that it was all about dancing, that it was a childish place that rewarded superficiality. I stopped using TikTok a few months after that because of how difficult it was to produce videos. I’m not a video editor and the app’s tools had a bit of a learning curve. I was also fatigued from having to navigate so many social media platforms while things were simultaneously opening up and I had live shows to focus on.

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