Even without participating directly on the app, you can’t escape these viral videos.ĭoes this social media app belong in educational organizations though? I think bringing attention to social media platforms in a school setting could be dangerous, considering how prevalent it already is in life outside of school. I personally don’t have the app downloaded, but these short dancing clips pop up everywhere on my Instagram account. The persuasive line to encourage people to join is, “Do you want to be Tik Tok famous?” Some tweens who are “Tik Tok famous” have even more followers than established celebrities on YouTube, reports, and even some students at West Orange have videos that have gone viral.Īlthough the app is more popular among middle and high school students, I still see these Tik Tok videos everywhere on other social media platforms.
Meeting every other Monday after school, these Florida students gather to watch the most popular Tik Tok videos, recreate them and then challenge their creations against each other, and the winner earns a gift card.
The app has become quite a phenomenon that has been downloaded on smart phones over 1 billion times, according to SensorTower. West Orange High School in Winter Garden, Florida has created a whole entire club dedicated to the Tik Tok app, the New York Times reports, which allows teens to make short video clips of dancing or acting out a skit, usually set to music or a voice track. The short video making app Tik Tok has taken over the phones of millions of tweens and teens all around the world, and is now spreading into the halls of high schools.