An app which seemingly contains as many multitudes of life experiences and niche communities as there are people in the world, we all start in the lowest common denominator of TikTok. On TikTok, the relationship between user and algorithm is uniquely (even sometimes uncannily) intimate.
Here's a shortlist of those who realized that I - a cis woman who'd identified as heterosexual for decades of life - was in fact actually bi, long before I realized it myself recently: my sister, all my friends, my boyfriend, and the TikTok algorithm. Discover something new with Mashable’s series I learned it on the internet. When we spend so much of our time online, we’re bound to learn something while clicking and scrolling.
