Hmm, I’ll empathize that there was a time when I would have assumed that, but ive used tiktok enough to not think that from the headline or by surprised at all by the article

maybe just use tiktok for a while, its time. it took a while for my feed to not be cringy but just follow people you hear about (like this article) or that get reshared on other social media sites (all videos have a watermark with the username), and your tiktok feed will warp to stuff like that very quickly