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TikTok Takeover
TikTok Takeover
Over the summer of 2019, a not so new app has regained popularity. Remember the countless days on Musical.ly spent trying to master transitions and perfect lip syncing to songs? In 2017 a Chinese company, Bytedance, bought out Musical.ly, and by the Fall of 2018 rebranded it as Tik Tok.
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People redownloaded and revived the once loved Tik Tok to make fun of the cringey content being posted, and to make their own joking videos. However, this mockery changed as the app gained tons of popularity, creating a new “Vine”. People slowly got addicted, spending hours watching and creating TikToks. Videos content includes anything imaginable from dancing
The Git Up, Meeting Rebecca, storytime with @TaylorKornoely, and viral challenges.
With the app downloads surpassing YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Snapchat, teenagers are now striving to become “TikTok famous”. The app has more than 500 million montly users and 29% of users open TikTok every day. Newly minted celebrity content creators have gained so much prominence that “TikTokers” have even
taken the opportunity to go on tour and attend huge media events such as Vidcon, hosted annually in Southern California.
One of these rising celebrity stars walks the halls right here at Countryside. While only a sophomore Tik Tok sensation, @ KayliiCocio, has over 250k followers on Tik Tok and over 4 million likes. She created the famous dance to the song ‘Obsessed’ by Mariah Carey which is easily one of the most popular dances on Tik Tok with over 2.6 million videos under the song. Her video gained over 407,400 likes and 4,400 within a month; and the dance has gotten so popular that even Mariah Carey posted a video about the trend. Cocio never expected the dance to blow up. She even stated that she “didn’t like it at first”. The now viral dance Cocio posted was the first version she made saying, “I tried fixing it because I wasn’t the biggest fan of it but that ended up being the best version so I just posted that one.” It was obvious that everyone else agreed considering the success of the dance and overall growth of her account.
Kayli Cocio a student here at countryside, has gained some fame on the app TikTok over the summer.
Even Officer Comini’s daughter asked him to get Cocio’s autograph when she found out that Cocio went to her dad’s school.
