TikTok, Boom.

2022

1 hr. 30 min.

Documentary

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72%

25 Reviews

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71%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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Dissecting one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape, TIKTOK, BOOM. examines the security issues, global political challenges, and racial biases behind the history-making app.

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Although it isn't as effortlessly engaging as the best content on the platform it's investigating, TikTok, Boom. offers a thoughtful look at modern social media.

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Shalini Kantayya

Director

Feroza Aziz

Self

Ross M. Dinerstein

Producer

Shalini Kantayya

Producer

Danni Mynard

Producer

Ross Girard

Executive Producer

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John Anderson

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Such is the message of “TikTok, Boom”: You can run, but you can’t hide from the algorithms.

Oct 21, 2022

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Brad Newsome

Sydney Morning Herald

If you only have a vague concept of TikTok as that thing kids use to post videos of themselves dancing, this essential documentary will leave you better informed -- and possibly alarmed.

Sep 29, 2022

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Owen Gleiberman

Variety

A lively, handy TikTok primer. Yet there are ways in which it’s all too content to skitter along the surface of what TikTok is.

Feb 5, 2022

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Shalini Kantayya’s TikTok, Boom. examines how that hugely popular platform—the most downloaded app ever—for makeup tutorials, skateboarding vids, lipsynching and other frivolities became a source of political controversies around the world.

Oct 25, 2023

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Alan Ng

Film Threat

TikTok Boom has many valuable insights into the TikTok app, and the direction society and the social discourse are headed.

Rated: 7/10

May 11, 2022

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Martin Carr

We Got This Covered

What happens once audiences disappear down the rabbit hole of this documentary will depend very much upon how old they are.

Feb 18, 2022

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Synopsis

Dissecting one of the most influential platforms of the contemporary social media landscape, TIKTOK, BOOM. examines the security issues, global political challenges, and racial biases behind the history-making app.

Director: Shalini Kantayya
Executive Producer: Ross Girard, Rebecca Evans, Travis Collins, Randall Lane, Michael Cho, Mimi Rode, Tim Lee, William Rosenfeld, Robert Kapp
Production Co: Campfire, Such Content, Olive Hill Media
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English