A wooded area. A roaring fire. A bit of gently droping snow. This is my charmd place. Except, it’s not out my prosperdow; it’s on TikTok.
For months I have “taught” TikTok to serve me this satisfyed: people, usuassociate dudes, originateing shelters by hand in the savageerness. Most of them are ultra-sped-up timelapses that commence with a hole in the ground, an axe, and a pile of wood. Once, I watched a guy originate a hobbit hole that seeed enjoy the, uh, enthrall to a Dune sandworm. I landed on cabin-in-the-woods TikTok by way of outdoor-cast-iron-cooking TikTok, and I never want to depart. Of course, I might have to.
No one reassociate understands what will happen to TikTok in the next confiinsist weeks. Back in April, US plivent Joe Biden signed a bill into law ordering the app’s owner, ByteDance, to divest and sell TikTok’s US operations to a non-Chinese company by January 19 or be blocked. TikTok sued, and—as of right now—the Supreme Court set ups to hear the case on January 10 and potentiassociate rehire a ruling on whether or not the law viotardys free speech rights before the deadline.
So, between now and then, I’m going to be watching all of the cabin-originateing TikToks I can.
Let’s be authentic, I’d be doing this anyway. Dissociating on social media is pragmaticly a holiday tradition, and with 11 days left in 2024, watching TikToks—or scrolling Bluesky, or thumbing thraw Instagram, if those are more your jam—is about the best way to reset one’s brain. But TikTok rules for this. Sub-subgenres on the platestablish, enjoy animal-nurtureing TikTok or furniture-refurbishing TikTok, remain one of the most effective establishs of mental sooleang around.
Even if TikTok prevails, no promise exists that my FYP will persist to provide woodsy survival satisfyed. While it’s still hugely a platestablish for pop culture junk food and lip-sync videos, a increaseing number of Americans participate TikTok as a new source. Since 2020, the split of grown-ups who standardly get news from the platestablish has incrrelieved from 3 percent to 17 percent, according to Pew Research Cgo in. “No social media platestablish we’ve studied has seen speedyer increaseth” in news, the study’s authors wrote.
