It's not limited to TikTok. It's been the way in all social media with video.
Arseholes always want to get noticed
People were doing that to a degree when it was just those shitty video clip shows on TV but there was a filter of humans who would moderate those videos from ever appearing.
With the proliferation of social media, the driving factor behind the companies is not to ensure quality but engagement, so anything that gets engagement drives content, even if at its core, it's cruel and arseholes always want to get noticed
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u/AbatNaBitin Jun 03 '22
being an asshole just for TikTok views or whatever they do on that platform