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Sanchez: TikTok Based Its Algorithm on 5-to-10 Second Attention Limits
“TikTok actually based its entire algorithm on this single idea that humans can only pay attention for five to 10 seconds.”
Liemandt: Traditional six-hour school days drive kids into TikTok addiction
“If you put them in school for six hours a day and homework, you, you've made an environment where they're like, okay, my escape is to scroll TikTok and play video games. Cause I'm not building, I'm not engaged. I'm not doing hard things.”
Joshua Weissman claims he invented the quick cut editing style for food
“They may not be copying me directly, but they're copying someone else who copied me or someone else who copied them, who copied who,
Another person, it ultimately leads to me.
Cause the whole quick cut editing style stuff started with that.”
Roll: Social media advice to abruptly quit your job is irresponsible
“That truth makes it all the more problematic or pernicious when you scroll on Instagram or TikTok and you see all these people talking about like, you know, quit your job and reinvent, you know, like if you're not happy, then you owe it to yourself to leave. L…”
Fisher: Transactional digital communication hurts young people's ability to have difficult conversations
“Another part of it is I do believe that there's so much transactional communication from text to Kids on Snapchat that only communicate by emojis, and you have TikTok, and you have every other app that you and I never had, and coming up to see that, I've seen …”
Weissman: I Was Among the Very First Food Creators on TikTok
“But I know for sure that I was the first, if not one of the very first, like within, like you could count on one hand that was producing food content on like TikTok.”
Ellsworth: Poppi has accumulated over 3 billion TikTok views
“Poppy has over three billion views on TikTok. One third of the platform has seen my face seven times.”
Dial: I deleted social media from my phone despite having 600,000 followers
“I don't have any social media on my phone anymore because I noticed that I would pick it up and I'd immediately just somehow be on Instagram. Like it was a reactionary thing. And so for the past six months, like I haven't had Instagram on my phone. And so I ha…”
TikTok reached 1.6 billion users in 2024, triple the size of X
“TikTok goes from zero users to 1.6 billion by 20 24. And oh, by the way, that's like three X Twitter and Snapchat and almost the same as Instagram, slightly less. However, it is the fastest growing social channel ever with 10 X the growth trajectory.”