How To Enjoy TikTok If You’re Old Enough To Drive
It’s cats in wigs. Cats in wigs!
I’m a 49-year-old lady who still doesn’t know how Instagram Stories work, and I’m not going to learn. So it came as a surprise to me to discover that I love TikTok. Like most people my age, I ignored it for a while. Sarah Cooper’s Trump videos made it to my inbox without me having to concern myself with what the kids were doing in the latest online craze. But then I saw a man and his kid parodying a woman named Elizabeth from Knoxville Tennessee who got maced while “storming the Capitol, it’s a Revolution!” and I had some time to kill so I downloaded the app, and friends, let me tell you, it was the right decision.
The thing I love is that you don’t have to do anything. TikTok is a nonparticipant’s dream. It’s voyeuristic bliss. All you have to do is use your thumb to scroll along through endless 60-second videos of the best that society has to offer, and I mean this sincerely. These are the freaks you’ve been looking for, and the material is vast. Since downloading the app roughly 48 hours ago, I’ve scrolled through hundreds if not thousands of the most delightfully random nonsense.
