Here in Mexico I just today made note of a phone service provider offering unlimited use of TikTok with their basic offering.

Personally I have never been anything but annoyed by the whole concept of the short videos, but my 5 year old daughter likes it. But then again I also get irrationally angry at programming tutorials in video form as opposed to text, so maybe I just don't "get it".

Those short form programming videos perpetuate the parts of this industry I really dislike, particularly the "look you install the latest dependency and things go :rocketship: :rocketship:". They never convey much nuance and are just frankly uninteresting, unless you want to just have passing knowledge of things existing.

Its because they have no net neutrality.

> but my 5 year old daughter likes it.

The tech is made to be addictive. You shouldn't let children use such a thing IMO.

Tutorial videos are demonstrably worse at education, but they are just much, much easier to produce than a well written step by step blog post.