TikTokification

English

Alternative forms

• TikTok-ification, tiktokification

Etymology

TikTok +‎ -ification

Noun

TikTokification (uncountable)

1. The process of making or becoming more like TikTok.
   • 2020, Lance Conzett, "Best Hip-Hop EP: Lackhoney, Sweets", Nashville Scene, 15 October 2020 - 28 October 2020, page 124:

     Detractors might say that 30-second songs can only say so much, and that they only contribute to the TikTokification of youth culture.

   • 2022 July 27, Brian Contreras, “Facebook is in trouble. Its escape plan: Turn into TikTok”, in Los Angeles Times:

     Even before Zuckerberg doubled down on it Wednesday, the increasing TikTokification of Instagram was stirring users’ ire.

   • 2023 January 19, Delia Cai, “In the Age of TikTok, True Crime Goes Live”, in Vanity Fair:

     If we’re looking at the long road of the TikTokification of crime stories, the case of the Idaho murders marks a juncture where online theories have begun to regularly crystallize into real-world consequences.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:TikTokification.