This is your brain on TikTok
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🗓️ 1 March 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this show comes from Krakan. |
| 0:03.0 | Krypto is like the financial system, but different. |
| 0:07.0 | It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score, |
| 0:11.0 | or your outrageous food delivery habits. |
| 0:13.7 | crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time. |
| 0:18.4 | Krakhan, see what crypto can be. |
| 0:21.3 | Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest. |
| 0:25.0 | This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I have a problem. I can't stop scrolling. I scroll endlessly on my phone through the infinite content streams of Twitter, |
| 0:45.8 | Tumblr, and Instagram. But my new favorite app to scroll forever on is Tik-Tock. |
| 0:51.8 | It's a platform designed for scrolling through |
| 0:54.8 | over and over and over again to see bite-sized pieces of content. Simple videos |
| 1:00.5 | as short as six seconds and as long as 60 seconds. |
| 1:04.0 | Most videos have catchy music in the background and people either lip-sinking to it or doing |
| 1:08.2 | the latest viral dance. |
| 1:10.3 | Since it launched in 2018, TikTok has exploded. |
| 1:13.4 | Reports say the app's been downloaded more than 1.5 billion times worldwide, |
| 1:17.7 | and with so many people on the app, |
| 1:19.7 | any average kid can become a social media star with one-hit video. |
| 1:24.2 | But on Tik-Tok, 15 minutes of fame is more like six seconds. |
| 1:28.2 | And for many Tik-Tok famous teens, the clock runs out quick. |
| 1:39.2 | Today on the show, how Tik-Tok can make you famous overnight, but can just as quickly take that fame away. |
| 2:01.4 | This is reset and I'm Alleg for you. I'm smiling for you. |
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