Zoë schifer: Booktok immersed me in a completely romantic world. Now I am unable to read general literature. Thank you.
Lauren God: I am going to believe that romantic is romance and fantasy?
Zoë schifer: Oh yes it is. Dragon. There are fairies, there is dragons. I am not proud of this, but I think I am not proud of it.
Lauren God: Wild.
Michael Calore: Lauren, you have to spend more time on Ticketkok.
Lauren God: I know. Zo, this is an entire side of you that I did not know as my podcast Kohost. To respect.
Zoë schifer: Yes, I usually don't lead to it, I will be real.
Michael Calore: Lauren, what is your favorite video?
Lauren God: A friend sent me Moth Girl.
Thin girl [Archival audio], Two years ago, I was found to be sitting on my driveway.
Lauren God: His handle on Tiktok is Talalovesyourt. But she is an insect girl.
Thin girl [Archival audio], … scared me with hell with wings.
Lauren God: Actually, as was about to ban Tiktok and was like taking my friend out. He was so, “Such beautiful creators are not able to reach the audience.”
Thin girl [Archival audio], But I did not know what I was going to do myself.
Lauren God: I was tearing a little. There were onions in the room. It was really beautiful. What about you, Mike?
Michael Calore: My favorite tiktok personality is SMAC, SMAC.
Sara McCrenor [Archival audio], I do not know why you followed me, it was probably for dance or whatever it was.
Michael Calore: Sarah McCrenor, he is an Australian explanatory dancer, and a comedian, and creative person. She is also known as a hydraulic press girl because she took a video of crushing things to the viral hydraulic press and performed her explanatory dance-
Zoë schifer: Oh, my god.
Michael Calore: With costumes that are amazing.
Lauren God: Very good.
Michael Calore: He is great.
Zoë schifer: Honestly, creativity on Tikkok is very unmatched.
Lauren God: He really.
Michael Calore: It is all going far away.
Zoë schifer: Wake up.
Michael Calore: It is wired Anani ValleyA show about the people of Silicon Valley, strength and impact. I am Michael Kailor, who is the director of Consumer Tech and Culture, here in Wired.
Lauren God: I am Lauren Gode, I am a senior writer in Wired.
Zoë schifer: I am Zoe schifer, wired's Drivercation of Business and Industry.
Michael Calore: Today we are talking about Tiktok. Does this app make this app so unique and so specially weak? We all have our favorite tickets personality and our favorite videos and our favorite subdivision. But what is Tiktok really? Where does it come from? When did we first start getting obsessed with it? And why are we so obsessed with it?
Zoë schifer: The brief answer is that Tiktok is a Chinese social media app with about 170 million monthly active users in the United States. And in particular, a ton of young people. This is actually a choke hold of especially on Jane Z.