- Courtney: "I — I've spent some time on TikTok."
- Shayne: "I, too, have been on the Internet."
- — Courtney & Shayne[src]
TikTok (https://www.tiktok.com/) is a video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance Ltd., a Beijing-based company founded in 2012 by Chinese Internet entrepreneur Zhang Yiming. The company had previously launched Douyin, which is similar to TikTik but runs on a separate server to comply with Chinese censorship laws, for the China market in 2016. The app, launched in September 2017, allows users to create short music and lip-sync videos of 3 to 15 seconds and short looping videos of 3 to 60 seconds. Two months after the app's launch, ByteDance acquired Musical.ly and merged the two apps together.[1]
TikTok was the most downloaded app in the United States in October 2018, making it the first Chinese app to achieve this. As of 2018, it is available in over 150 markets and in 75 languages.[1]
TikTok is also an infrequent sponsor on Smosh Pit, having sponsored an episode of Squad Vlogs in 2019.
Smosh on TikTok
Channels
Cast
Crew
List of videos sponsored by TikTok
| Video | Released |
|---|---|
| WE REACT TO TIK TOKS! | May 30, 2019 |
In videos
- TikTok has been the subject of five main channel videos:
- "WHY ARE PEOPLE ADDICTED TO TIK TOK" is an episode of My Strange Addiction and takes a satirical look at Keith Leak Jr.'s addiction to TikTok and the effects it is having on his friends and coworkers at Smosh.
- "The Truth About Tik Tok Eboys" is an episode of Totally True Documentary is a satirical documentary of Dameron Paits, an "e-boy" on TikTok who goes by the name "DamDameron" and struggles in life offline.
- "Every TikTok Ever" is an episode of Every Blank Ever.
- "30 Year Old On TikTok Gets Cancelled" is an episode of Totally True Documentary.
- "TikTok In Real Life" explores what TikTok would look like in real life.
- In "WE REACT TO TIK TOKS!", Ian, Shayne, Courtney, and Damien watch and give their reactions to a series of videos on TikTok.
- In "Recreating TikTok Hacks BUT BETTER", Shayne and Damien try to recreate and improve upon "hacks" they find performed on TikTok.
- The SmoshCast episode "Shayne's TikTok is a Sewer" was entirely dedicated to discussing TikTok.
References
External links
- Official website
TikTok on Wikipedia- Douyin, TikTok's Chinese equivalent