How TikTok Keeps Us Connected, Informed While In Quarantine

What was mostly geared toward millennials and Gen Zers has become popular among all generations. While people are sheltering in place, the app has become a tool for family-bonding time, sharing information, expressing creativity.

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Since its debut in 2017, the social media app TikTok has garnered over 800 million users worldwide. Its popularity has grown substantially since the COVID-19 outbreak.

Users connect through “cloud raves,” dancing challenges and coronavirus memes.

“City Lights’” producer Summer Evans spoke via Zoom with Kudzi Chikumbu, the director of creator community at TikTok.