As a teen—I don't use tik Tok, nor does anyone I know. It's easy to believe everyone uses something, when people are saying that everyone uses something. Compare active users of tiktok in the US to the entire US population, for example. About 1/3 of the population. Sure, that's a lot, but it's not even a majority. The way people talk about it, you'd think it was an overwhelming majority.
And the user base is almost certainly more addicted to TikTok than any other social media app other than some of the extreme right wing conservatives on Elon's Xitter.
It's insane how many videos and ads a person will swipe through in even a short time on TikTok