Tik Tok

While we were all at home on lockdown in March of 2020, Meg used her excess free time to watch videos on Tik Tok.  I hadn't really heard much about it, but soon learned that it was a relatively new social media platform for posting videos.  Almost all videos were set to song and in general poked fun at a group, especially parents.  It gained quite a bit or notoriety last summer when President Trump threatened to ban the app because of its ties to China.  In the fall an American owned company bought it and it has continued to flourish in the states ever since then.

Over the past ten months Meg has sent me numerous Tik Toks that she thought that I would enjoy.  Some were cute, most were funny and a few made me laugh out loud.  My favorite two explained my life perfectly.  The first showed a dancing, drunk college age boy at 3 a.m. laughing as he knocked on his mom's bedroom door to tell her something that he thought was funny from years earlier.  The second was of a mom coming home and becoming extremely upset when she noticed that the ottoman had been moved an inch.  Along with viewing them, Meg and Sara had also made a few Tik Toks that were enjoyable to watch.  They didn't have a ton of viewers, but that didn't matter to them as they had fun making them.  There was one time that they thought that they were going to cross over the 2000 viewer mark, but then realized that it was actually just Sara watching the video over and over.

Although several of Cameron's friends were enjoying Tik Tok as much as Meg, overall he just wasn't that interested in the platform.  He laughed at ones that Meg sent him, but didn't spend too much time on the app.  All of that changed a few weeks ago when Cameron decided to make his own videos for Tik Tok.  As a Mom I really enjoyed his videos especially those about Madden '21 on the PS4.  Another one scared me to death as Cam was pictured sitting on a chair on top of a desk at school.  He told me later that he stayed that way throughout the entire class period.  

While Cam was home for e-learning yesterday he had time to make a few more Tik Toks.  He noticed that one quickly reached 2000 views even without Sara watching it repeatedly.  He was impressed by that and decided to post another one today about being home sick.  It caught on as well and soon topped out at 6500 views.  We were all amazed at that.  

After some success on social media, Cameron joked that we should move to California so that he could become a famous Tik Tok star.  Then we could all be on Dr. Phil with Cam as the family diva.  Although none of us packed our bags just yet, we were happy that Cam had found something to keep himself entertained with on these cold, snowy days.  It's been the bright spot of a long week.