2023-12-11
19 分钟TikTok is one of the most popular social media platforms the world has ever seen.
When you're using the app, it's easy to see why.
Once you start scrolling through the short bursts of videos, it's difficult to stop.
I've been using the app over the past few years and like most other users, I'm addicted.
At first the platform was mainly music, lip sync and dance videos.
But now when you open TikTok, there's content to satisfy whatever interests.
What has TikTok diagnosed you with?
I will go first.
ADHD.
And since the end of 2022, I've noticed videos about darker topics going viral quickly.
You have blood on your hands.
You have blood on your hands.
So, like Everybody else on TikTok, I'm obsessed.
They stole a bus and burned it.
TikTok now has 1 billion regular users drawing millions of eyeballs and spawning all kinds of content at a scale and speed vastly beyond other social media app.
So I wanted to find out what is TikTok's unprecedented success doing to us.
I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent, and this is BBC Trending.
In this series, we're investigating how social media is pushing its users to the extreme with serious consequences.
Earlier in the series, we looked at a wave of gruesome AI generated TikTok videos of murdered children.
But in this episode, I'm investigating how TikTok's addictive algorithm and unique format is whipping people up into frenzies connected to antisocial behavior.