'Scuze me venting through..

for a while there, there was a big to do about tiktok where adults were posting comments on childrens tiktok posts encouraging them to be more sexual without outright saying it, telling them what to do, how to do it, that sorta thing.

Yeah, that seems like trouble waiting to happen.

If you followup on the site that @darkness_within posted, you'll find dozens of other apps, that like TikTok, require parents to either proscribe or monitor closely. It's the double edged sword of our 20 year old connected reality. Predators of all types can prey from behind a keyboard. Pervs, con men and scammers abound, and it's up to us, as individuals and parents, to remain vigilant for ourselves and our kids.

one problem with the whole thing is that a lot of parents just want something they can throw at the kid and forget about it to keep the kid busy so they can do other stuff and not pay any attention. Those same parents are generally the ones complaining about the influence of X thing on their kids.