Title: The Biggest Trends of TikTok 2020 - The New York Times
Headings: This Is Why You Heard About TikTok So Much in 2020
This Is Why You Heard About TikTok So Much in 2020
Business, entertainment, news, activism and social connection will never be the same.
It Turned Entertainment on Its Head
It Shaped Shopping Behavior
It Offered a View of the Front Lines
It Helped People Organize and Speak Out
It Helped People Stay Connected
It Gave Us Life-Affirming Trends

Content: TikTok is a children’s dancing app, where children will upload videos of themselves dancing, that children and adults can enjoy,” the comedian Nathan Fielder recently joked. While it’s true that TikTok has transformed dance culture online, the platform has more broadly become a rich social and entertainment network. And in 2020, there was hardly a corner of society it didn’t touch. It Turned Entertainment on Its Head
TikTok’s most obvious impact can be seen in the entertainment world. “ More than any other social network since Myspace it feels like a new experience, the emergence of a different kind of technology and a different mode of consuming media,” the journalist Kyle Chayka wrote in November. Primarily responsible for the uniqueness of the TikTok viewing experience is the For You page, an algorithmically programmed feed that serves you the content you are likely to find engaging. You don’t need to follow or be followed by a single person to see the videos you want to see, or to have your videos be seen by their intended audience, which has afforded many people a rapid rise to fame. In 2020 alone, top users like Charli and Dixie D’Amelio and Addison Easterling amassed tens of millions of followers and became household names. The D’Amelios even landed a Hulu show. Image
Charli D’Amelio and Addison Easterling in December 2019.