Tiktok Teens Aren’t Protected From Predators

Teenagers tend to view social media differently from adults. Teens are likely to view themselves as fully mature individuals with enough self-control and maturity to manage their behavior and decisions on their own, yet for apps such as Tiktok they remain children that must be protected against predators who exploit them.

Internal communications released this week reveal a disregard for the harm Tiktok is causing to American teens, which has led 14 state attorneys general to sue Tiktok. Furthermore, secret material shows that Tiktok itself has conducted studies that confirm many of its critics’ assertions of harm.

Tiktok company policies regarding sexuality and nudity are generally lax; however, it’s still easy to get kicked off if something inappropriate occurs on your account or with certain partners. One method for staying within compliance with them is not mentioning OnlyFans directly but only linking through third-party services like Linktree; though that hasn’t stopped some sex workers and nudists from getting banned from Tiktok altogether.

Elizabeth Danu, 19, believes her account was removed due to a video depicting her without clothing; however, other users without explicit promotion of OnlyFans accounts get away with similar content without being taken off. To protect herself further from being removed in future videos she now won’t zoom in on any body parts and promote her OnlyFans content on Instagram as this seems safer route.