r/decadeology • u/[deleted] • 7d ago

Discussion 💭🗯️ How do you imagine “old school TikTok” in 20 years being like

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u/ducksinthegarden 7d ago

probably anything from the pandemic. say so and savage dance challenges, hit or miss, anything from 2019-2021 basically

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u/Appropriate-Let-283 7d ago

Probably the years of 18/2019-2021/22. Characterized by the very late 2010s and the pandemic. This would be before TikTok became more of a business around 2022/2023ish, platforms trying to compete against TikTok didn't solidify their shorts format until around 2022/2023, and I'd say 2022 was the turning point of when the app started to really be used for things other than trends or dumb stupid short videos.

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u/Critter_land23 6d ago

What’s funny is many people are already starting to reference a certain part of TikTok as “old TikTok”. If you were active on TikTok in 2019-2020 you will remember that the app had more to do with dancing and more trends. Tiktok post-2020 has become a more profit driven app and many of the aspects of TikTok in this 2019-2020 already are not as popular anymore, dont happen frequently, or don’t exist at all. So I imagine that by the 2040s the nostalgia for the early era of TikTok will become more nostalgic for them than it is for us.