What you didn't know about TikTok. 🤫

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[Mrwhosetheboss]

CURRENT ENGAGEMENT RATE ON THIS VIDEO: 17% - WHAT ON EARTH WE'RE SO CLOSE!! Also... get ready for one of the best videos I've ever made in a few days time! 😎

[randomuser]

Arun feels like that one grandfather that knows all the secrets and myths and randomly tells them

[marshmallowfluffbiscuit]

⚠️story time⚠️
One of my friends actually had TikTok tic once. I myself don't use TikTok but the tic was really getting out of control. She recovered but we didn't know how it happened. A few years later I see a online newspaper about it and told it to my friend. I told her that TikTok was the reason that it happened and that experience was really gruesome for her. She denied it and said that TikTok was the best thing that happened to her and it would never do such a thing to her. She could not survive without it.

The point is that it's really bad to get obsessed with this sort of thing especially since TikTok is dangerous.

[hadesslayer]

I like how you still point out some of the issues with TikTok without exaggerating it or sounding paranoid. I personally deleted TiTtok because it was addicting and greatly shortened my attention span. I don't really like how much people exaggerate the security concerns of tiktok, but I do find it kind of sketchy, and I think you did a good job with not exaggerating, and telling the truth.

[DanPx]

Never used TikTok and never will... And it's good to see content creators like you alerting people of it's harms!

[elliotmarks]

Deleting TikTok was the best decision I've ever made. It was fun for a bit when it was still in the growing phase, but as it got bigger it just got worse, both in content and for my mental health. Deleting the app and not getting hooked before it exploded in popularity is 100% a decision I'm glad I made.

[TheRenegadePlayer]

I feel like a mature intellect for never downloading TikTok once in my lifetime.

[gkkslus]

Thank you for all the good information👍

[nobully]

Why is the fact, that this chinese app literally films and records you without your consent, completely ignored?

[frost]

What's most scary to me is that YouTube is noticing that TikTok is getting away with the unfair treatment to creators and they're beginning to replicate it..

[DemohamAlumium]

the coin-socket challenge was not a challenge, it was a video created on youtube (not tiktok), about 2 kids placing a coin in a socket. the reason why people thought it was a challenge was because CNN and all the other news accounts on twitter making it seem like it was a challenge.

[MW]

00:24 I think Instagram also does this, because when I scroll reels, I see the camera indicator randomly turning on. Idk gotta read the new terms and conditions.

[ojasgupta]

CONGRATULATIONS ON 13 MILLION ARUN!!! I love your videos and I appreciate the effort that you put for your video!!

[utshodas]

Using your huge platform to share something that everybody should know is a great thing to do. Love you man.

[findthejohn]

Wish I had seen this before I started posting on TikTok
Thank you.

[TheStammeringBiker]

The amount of predatory content or just plain misinformation that is seemingly allowed on TikTok, yet creators who call it out and make reference to it have their videos immediately removed and even banned, is VERY worrying.

[ralfferns]

It's amazing how clear Arun is to everyone, he can explain anything simply and quickly! Congrats on 13 mil!!!

[ZoeD-beie]

Do you use Tik Tok???Should I still use Tik Tok???

[UnsightlyThinker]

As a member of gen-z, I’m so glad I managed to avoid this hellish cesspool of an app. I personally think that people really started to gravitate towards it in 2020 (pandemic-induced boredom and loneliness), and now our society is having to deal with the consequences of shortened attention spans and the need for instant dopamine gratification.

[kenobi]

3:25 I actually know a girl who used to go to my middle school who broke her back doing one of these challenges. She missed out on like 3/4ths of the school year and when she got back nobody would talk to her and would only talk about how she got injured. Principle and administrators even held an assembly to warn against harmful tiktok challenges