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A wooded area. A roaring fire. A little snow falling gently. This is my happy place. Except it’s not outside my window; It’s on TikTok.
For months I have “taught” TikTok to serve me this content: people, usually guys, building shelters by hand in nature. Most of them are ultra-fast timelapses that start with a hole in the ground, an ax, and a pile of wood. Once, I observed a boy build a hobbit hole that looked like the entrance to a Dune sandworm I landed in cabin in the woods TikTok via outdoor cast-iron kitchen TikTok, and I never want to leave. Of course, you may have to.
No one really knows what will happen to TikTok in the coming weeks. In April, US President Joe Biden signed a bill ordering the app’s owner, ByteDance, to divest and sell TikTok’s US operations to a non-Chinese company by January 19 or be blocked. . TikTok filed a lawsuit and as of now, the Supreme Court plans listen to the case on Jan. 10 and potentially issue a ruling on whether or not the law violates free speech rights before the deadline.
So from now on, I’ll be watching all the cabin building TikToks I can.
Let’s face it, I’d be doing this anyway. Dissociating on social media is practically a holiday tradition, and with 11 days until 2024, watching TikToks (or scrolling through Bluesky or scrolling through Instagram, if that’s more your thing) is the best way to reset your brain. But TikTok rules in this. The platform’s subgenres, such as TikTok for animal husbandry or TikTok for furniture restoration, remain one of the most effective ways to calm the mind.
Even if TikTok prevails, there’s no guarantee my FYP will continue to provide woodsy survival content. While it remains largely a platform for pop culture junk food and lip-syncing videos, a growing number of Americans are using TikTok as a new source. Since 2020, the share of adults who regularly receive news from the platform has increased from 3 percent to 17 percent. according to the Pew Research Center. “No social media platform we have studied has experienced faster growth” in news, the study’s authors wrote.
