This comment thread is so disappointing. The goal of the post wasn't to convince people to use TikTok. It was to try to explain it as a product and why it works so well.

So many comments on here saying "It's just short form YouTube" - did you read my blog post? It's literally the opposite. That's why the clones of TikTok don't work

The audience of this post wasn't potential users of TikTok, it was for people who make software in various capacities.