Social media apps like TikTok are dangerous — but not for the reasons you think

Last summer, I became a somewhat infamous figure on TikTok when a video I posted pitching myself to be on "Saturday Night Live" went viral — but not in the way I'd hoped. At first I was mocked en masse and parodied, but the conversation quickly veered into vitriol and outright venom, resulting in a lengthy bullying campaign that included calls for me to kill myself.