There is once again a controversial trend on the video platform TikTok: women filming themselves pretending to be in a sexual interaction. These clips and live streams are now increasingly ending up in the feeds of minors.
Around a quarter of TikTok's users are between ten and 19 years old.
That's something to keep in mind when talking about the latest questionable TikTok trend. These are mostly women whose clothes, sounds and movements in their videos or live streams suggest that they are having sex or at least acting as if they are having it. Since these are mostly live streams, the content is also shown to users who do not follow the corresponding profiles. And this also includes a not insignificant number of minors. In addition, the offensive clips are displayed in the “For You” menu item, which is actually supposed to reflect user behavior. Apparently the algorithm also flushes particularly popular videos from the platform there if you have not previously consumed similar content.
Parents and adult users criticize clips
Many parents and other adult TikTok users are already complaining about such clips, whether on TikTok itself or on the short message platform Twitter.
Although it is possible to report relevant content, critics note that you first have to click on the video in the app and watch it for a few seconds. If there are a sufficient number of reports, the content will be deleted and the authors will be blocked. Other users also see the new trend as an opportunity to become more popular by uploading humorous productions of the trend on the clip platform. In these they show themselves, for example, reading a book while the imaginary partner outside the camera destroys the room during a mock sex act.
Live streams are problems for algorithms
According to TikTok guidelines, sexual content, including imitating or simulating sexual acts, is prohibited. The problem here, however, is that live stream content still seems to pose a challenge to the algorithms of social platforms. In the past, in addition to the live broadcasts of the terrorist attacks in Christchurch in New Zealand, there have also been streams of other crimes, including murder, on Facebook. At Facebook, the guidelines for streams were then tightened so that reports can be responded to more quickly.
Source: derStandard , Mashable
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