17 December 2020, 10:38 am EST By
The year 2020 perhaps has been the peak of social media as people were confined in their homes during the numerous lockdowns and quarantine periods and it is their only way to connect to the world. They use various social media platforms to communicate, kill boredom, and even reflect the current affairs in the society.
Aside from Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, one platform that rose to peak of popularity is the short video sharing platform TikTok. According to Oberlo, ByteDance s app already has over 800 million active users as of September while TikTok has already been downloaded for more than 1 billion times and is available in 75 languages across 155 countries.
This year, perhaps more than any other before it, social media served to both connect people
and reflect society back onto itself. In 2020, no platform did that better than TikTok. Sure, people shared news and trolling on Twitter and Facebook, but it was TikTok that provided the best medium for the year’s discourse. Doctors and nurses used it to dispel Covid-19 myths. Witches used it to hex the election. Black Lives Matter supporters utilized it to share information about the movement. Teens used it to make memes for their preferred presidential candidate. Not that everything on the platform was perfect. President Trump used it as a pawn in a very confusing face-off with China. It became a haven of conspiracy theories, and also one for digital blackface. But all the while, there it was, showing people who they really are, one duet at a time. These, dear readers, are our favorite TikToks of this most tumultuous of years.