The Rise Of Tiktok Shop

       Have you fell in the trap of saying "I'm gonna go on TikTok for five minutes and that's it." Well wasn't that a big fat lie. You definitely caught yourself scrolling for hours and then your day was gone! You thought that was the problem, but if you swipe left on your fyp you enter a whole new world of addiction.

Malik, Saad A. “TikTok Shop: Revolutionizing Social Commerce.” LinkedIn, 7 July 2023, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tiktok-shop-revolutionizing-social-commerce-saad-ali-malik. Accessed 24 January 2024.

If you haven't been on TikTok Shop it's webstore run by TikTok. You can easily access it through the app by going on your fyp and swiping left. Or even sometimes you get ads for it while you are scrolling away on your fyp. TikTok shop sells anything from chairs, clothes, makeup, and even food. You're probably thinking "You can get all of that on Amazon." Part of it is the products but it's the affordability and the prices.

       This is coming from someone who has a slight addiction to this. These products can be a face mask that you would normally see for $20.00 but on TikTok Shop you can find it for $7.00 which blows my mind. Or you would find a jacket that's normally $50.00 but you find it for $25.00 may be cheaper. It's insane and you find yourself still out of money at the end of your shopping spree. And TikTok Shop advertises on your TikTok feed! So you could scroll and then see a girl that found a Stanley cup on TikTok shop for $30.00. That link for that cup is provided for you right there for you to click at the tip of your fingers. You probably don't need one but you buy it anyway because of the affordability.

TikTok puts that ad on your feed as you are in your scrolling trance. You end up buying and seeing what else you can get in this shop for dumb cheap prices. This is shockingly evil but so clever.