Heres why Tik Tok users cry for attention

To anyone whose head is screwed on right TikTok is a headscratcher Its tough to explain its purpose or popularity 500 millionplus downloads A helpful page on Google annotates Its an outlet to express yourself through singing dancing comedy and lipsyncing It sounds innocuous even fun but in the hands of Indian users its turned into a stream of IcantbelievewhatIamseeing Jon name changed on request says My first reaction was to laugh at it Then I thought why cant I funnel these videos onto a Facebook page with apt captionsAlso ReadMumbra girl missing since 2016 finally tracked through Tik Tok appA 24yearold who sounds wise beyond his years Jon works in the music industry and unlike most people from his generation isnt taken in by TikTok In fact he tells us When you write this article please mention that I used the word talentless to refer to TikTok users at least 50 times On Facebook last year he started two meme pages on TikTok videos because one isnt enough I saw some TikTok videos which were really really cringe It seemed like the kind of stuff that would lower your IQ I just didnt know that this stuff existed in such a great quantity Because we live in cities and we live in a small bubble we dont think outside of it But once the Jio burst happened and the undercurrent chunk was online TikTok actually had huge numbersAlso Read Watch video Boy goes down on knees to propose to girl but rejects her heres whyThe first page namecalled Reptiles of Kurla featured pictures of people on TikTok alongside reptiles from Planet Earth on BBC After reaching 70K followers it has become classier now its a TikTok video tagged with a smart oneliner On several occasions the lines write themselves Were essentially trying to trace stupidity in any form They the users are doing anything they can to get some attention Last week I saw a video of a guy TikToking on some remix and every time there was a downbeat he would smash his head on a bulb There was another guy whos eating a tube light like a proper CFL tube light and crying There are guys who go to random weddings and take selfie videos in which the bride is out of focus and they sing some song on bewafai The bride has no clue She is busy smiling and having the best day of her life But heres another headscratcher why Kurla Look Im from Delhi I like Kurla We have shot music videos there its a great location very hospitable people I just needed the name of the area to sound funnyI saw this guy on YouTube who made a song which goes like Kurla Bhiwandi Kasaiwada Govandi Thats the entire song and hes jumping and going hard on it I thought all my problems were solved in one place The second page Boys who Cry Passionately on Musically India was launched because of the sheer number of crybabies out there When I was scrolling TikTok I saw an infinite amount of Indian males just crying to songs about dhadkan and all that I havent ever seen this in my life When I saw the crying videos mdash when I say many I find at least 200300 of them every day mdash it was super bizarre Its just guys crying profusely tearing their shirts and beating themselves up Theyve put some red chemical in their eyes to make it look like theyre crying hard This page has even more followers 90K at last count Im not creating something from scratch Its like reaction videos on YouTube If I see a guy tearing his shirt on some Ajay Devgn song Ill have a reaction to itJon schedules about three posts a day with help from three friends who have been added as administrators Outside of this tight circle his identity is anonymous Because the public space Im in is very respected and different Which links to why he harbours so much disdain for TikTok stars Since Im a musician I associate stardom or any sort of fame directly to a skill I see brands and MCNs multichannel networks running after them because they literally have tens of millions of followers on TikTok and all theyre doing is mouthing some dialogues It makes you think What a miserable state are we in He cites an example Theres a song called Pyari Pyari Akhiyansomething This guy just started bobbing his head on it like those bobblehead dolls and he became viral Its like I say that Im a professional benchslapper I can slap benches really good and make a crisp sound out of it Would I even dare to call that a skill This is exactly that Its absolute talentlessness coupled with joblessness When we try to reason out the other side of the argument he says I completely understand that its making people happy I really dont think it should be shut down But calling them superstars and influencers of our generation thats pushing itCatch up on all the latest Mumbai news crime news current affairs and also a complete guide on Mumbai from food to things to do and events across the city here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates