Tik Tok’s demographic consists of mostly children and teenagers, It markets itself
as an app that’s child-friendly, and 13+.
But tik tok has got a pretty serious problem on its hands and it starts with n and ends
with udes.
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Even though tik tok has only been around for less than 2 years, it is the most downloaded
app in the app store right now.
Hundreds of millions of people have made their accounts, 150 million are daily active users,
and many of those people consist of teenagers and children.
You don’t necessarily need to post videos to use tik tok, a lot of people just have
the app so they can browse videos and memes.
So many different media outlets have reported on how vanilla tik tok is.
The new york times called ‘the only good app’, google play called it one of its most
fun, and the verge described it as, joyful.
But according to the publication motherboard, theres a lot of people who use tik tok for
the sole purpose of soliciting explicit images of boys and girls.
You probably know by now that there’s a really big child predator problem on tik tok,
if you haven’t heard about that, I would check out the video we made that’s currently
on your screen right now called the dark truth about tik tok.
So this video is a bit of an update on that story, because it seems that this app has
a much deeper problem.
Many underage users have come out to say that they are asked for images of themselves.
Sometimes these predators groom their victims.
They will comment on their videos, tell them they look beautiful and then ask to see more
skin.
Predators set up fake accounts where they seem to be 12 years old, when actually they
are a 40 year old deviant, according to vanderburgh county sherrif dave wedding.
According to the crimes against children research center, one in 5 teens who use the internet
say they’ve received unwanted solicitation online, and one of the apps most commonly
used for this is tik tok.
There is a serious crack down on social media going on right now.
Tumblr recently made headlines for cracking down on their explicit images.
Instagram responds very quickly whenever there are inappropriate images posted to their app.
But tik tok has to put a system in place to deal with this very serious issue.
A spokesperson for tik tok has responded to its problem and they said, such behaviour
is not only abhorrent, its prohibited on tik tok.
We have a number of measures in place today to protect against misuse.
Tik tok doesn’t permit images or videos to be sent in comments or messages, and users
can make their account private, block another user, report an account or content, and disable
the ability to receive messages.
In addition, our moderation team removes inappropriate images and terminates accounts that violate
our terms of service and community guidelines.
While this explanation might be enough for some, tik tok has not cracked down enough.
Users can follow hashtags like tradefortrade, which led to a male stroking themselves suggestively.
When you click on a comment on that post, it leads to an account where the purpose seems
to be trading images.
Then these accounts lead to other accounts, so there seems to be a network on tik tok
that consists of people that want to share pictures.
Bios for accounts like lets trade boys, and ‘if you have a (eggplant emoji trade with
me on snap chat dm me and I go live every day are easy to find on tik tok.
According to the motherboard, some of the accounts that ask for pictures follow
accounts run by underage users.
Bytedance, the company that owns tik tok, said that they would be increasing the amount
of moderators from 6 thousand to 10 thousand.
Until they do, be safe.
If you’re underage and you’re using tik tok, don’t talk to people you don’t know.
Make your account private.
If you’re a parent, make sure you know what your kids are up to when they use the internet
and apps like tik tok.
For now im gonna wrap up this video with some comment replies.
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