48 Hours In The Strange And Beautiful World Of TikTok • Discoverology

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Apps, Tech

The video app offers an endless scroll of creativity and goofing off, told in 15-second snippets. What did five critics see when they went down the rabbit hole? Art, artistry and a lot of dancing.

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