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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 1405 TikTok Star
Description: 86% of high schoolers want to be TikTok stars, more so even than wanting to be a professional athlete or pop star, because it doesn’t take anything special to do it. It’s passe for older generations to point out that becoming a fireman, teacher or businessman would be a better goal, and it falls on deaf ears. To a kid who has had pictures taken of them their whole lives, and are inundated with other kid’s pictures, they naturally assume that their level of fame among family & friends expands outward into the world via social media.
In a sense...