The dark side of TikTok: Jackie ‘O’ Henderson reveals every parent’s worst nightmare when it comes to children using the popular dance app
Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has spoken about the perils of TikTok, saying it’s almost impossible for parents to tell when their children are filming videos for the popular social media app.
The radio presenter, whose nine-year-old daughter, Kitty, is an avid TikTok dancer, said on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Friday: ‘You never know when you’re in a TikTok video. They do it all day.
‘You could be sitting on the toilet and she just walks in with the iPad doing a TikTok video… you don’t have any privacy.’
Better watch out! Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has spoken about the perils of TikTok, saying it’s almost impossible for parents to tell when their children are filming videos for the popular social media app. Pictured with her nine-year-old daughter, Kitty
Jackie made the comments while discussing NRL player Nathan Cleary, who had been caught partying with a group of women despite social distancing rules after footage of the gathering was shared on TikTok.
The Penrith Panthers star, 22, was was fined $10,000 by the NRL, and league bosses have warned the 2020 season may never restart unless behaviour improves.
TikTok is a Chinese social media app that allows users to live stream and record short videos. It is mostly used by teenagers to make singing and dancing clips that are set to well-known songs.
Word of warning: The radio presenter, whose nine-year-old daughter, Kitty, is an avid TikTok dancer, said on Friday: ‘You never know when you’re in a TikTok video. They do it all day’
The Beijing-based company behind the app says it has more than 500 million active users and is now worth more than $110billion.
Since Instagram took away the option to see how many ‘likes’ a post has, TikTok has become teenagers’ favourite app for checking their popularity.
TikTok also has a direct message function, as well as live-streaming and public comments.
Get out! ‘You could be sitting on the toilet and she just walks in with the iPad doing a TikTok video… you don’t have any privacy,’ Jackie said
Jackie shares custody of Kitty with her ex-husband Lee Henderson.
The couple separated in 2018 after 15 years of marriage, but remain on amicable terms as they co-parent their daughter.
Kitty had previously lived with her father during the week to accommodate Jackie’s early starts as a breakfast radio host, but the child is now living with her mother, who is broadcasting from a home studio during the coronavirus pandemic.
Exes: Jackie shares custody of Kitty with her ex-husband Lee Henderson. They separated in 2018 after 15 years of marriage but remain on amicable terms as they co-parent their daughter
WHAT IS TIKTOK?
TikTok is a Chinese social media app with a host of functions that allows users to live stream and create short music videos and GIFs.
TikTok’s tagline is ‘Make every second count’.
It was the most downloaded app in the US in 2018 and the world’s fourth most downloaded app in 2018, ahead of Instagram and Snapchat.
TikTok is known in China as Douyin where it was launched in 2016 and then made more widely available around the world in 2017.
Douyin is still the version of the app used in China, available to download separately to TikTok.
Popular: TikTok is a Chinese social media app with a host of functions that allows users to live stream and create short music videos and GIFs. TikTok has 1.4 million monthly active users in Australia and New Zealand, driving 1.6 billion video views every month
Last year, the app was merged with popular music video lip-syncing app Musical.ly, also with headquarters in China.
Most children use the app to film themselves lip-syncing to chart hits.
It offers users a raft if colourful modification and editing tools including overlaying music, sound, animated stickers, filters and augmented reality (AR) for creating short videos.
The Beijing based social network has more than 500 million active users and the company is now worth more than $75billion (£58billion).