The wide range of celebrities on the platform include 52-year-old Will Smith (59.3 million followers), 49-year-old Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (37.4 million), 52-year-old Jennifer Lopez (13.6 million) and 83-year-old Sir Anthony Hopkins (2 million). While it is not so much about meeting people as it is learning something, selling something or being entertained, you may make social connections along the way. TikTok is full of diversions that may help older folks, or people of any age, feel less bored or lonely. "I mean, just watching teenagers dance when you're waiting in line for something to happen a very uplifting form of social media,” says Katherine Black, 52, who works in Silicon Valley and is a huge TikTok fan. Others just want to discover what the younger generation is up to. Some older adults join TikTok to bond with their kids and grandkids. Indeed, while teens and people younger than 30 make up nearly half of TikTok users in the U.S, 11 percent are 50 and older, according to recent stats from the App Ape mobile apps analytics service that were published by consumer data firm Statista. The cool thing about the app is that “it just defies all the age boundaries,” she says. Under the TikTok handle Polise has some 331,000 followers and 1.9 million “likes” from people across the age spectrum. So if you’re looking for more young adult books that BookTok might have missed - or any genre for that matter - TBR has got you covered.En español | Helen Polise used the extra time she had during the pandemic last year to learn TikTok, the wildly popular - and controversial - short-form video sharing social platform.īefore long, the 60-year-old New York-based producer of TV commercials was not only consuming TikTok videos but making her own, many to help other TikTok users master the nuts and bolts of the service. But if you’re looking for something a little more tailored to your particular tastes, you can’t go wrong with Tailored Book Recommendations! TBR is a book recommendation service that pairs you with an expert Bibliologist who will pick out books specifically for you. Of course, BookTok is always a great go-to place for book recommendations. But in doing so, he instead unlocks dormant powers within her. Because Bree wasn’t meant to see any of this, a mage called “Merlin” attempts to wipe Bree’s memory. When a flying demon attacks the campus, a secret society of “Legendborn” students hunts the creature down. This book, based on Arthurian legend, tells the story of Bree Matthews, a teen who joins a residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC–Chapel Hill and stumbles upon something extraordinary. BookTok loves a good dark academia novel, but they’re also wild about retellings, and Legendborn delivers both. And a lot of those older titles have remained a mainstay since the dawn of BookTok.īookTokers are absolutely speechless over Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. Some of them are newer titles, but the majority of young adult books getting buzz on BookTok are older titles finding a second life and a new audience. What’s also really interesting about the YA books BookTok loves is that they’re surprising. For some BookTok accounts, it’s all about the character development. Some promise shocking twists that have everyone on the platform talking. Some of these books are big tear-jerkers. And the reason people on BookTok loves these books are as varied as the stories themselves. The great thing about young adult literature is that it includes a wide range of genres and topics. That’s why we rounded up this big list of the most popular YA books on TikTok. But when it comes to books that people love on TikTok, young adult literature is king. BookTok covers a wide range of book genres, including romance and fantasy. BookTok is driving publishing trends and even pulling backlist titles back on the bestsellers charts. TikTok - specifically BookTok - has changed the way we read and the way people talk about books. She spends her free time reading, watching horror movies and musicals, cuddling cats, Instagramming pictures of cats, and blogging/podcasting about books with the ladies over at #BookSquadGoals (She can be reached at All posts by Emily Martin Emily has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi, MS, and she has an MFA in Creative Writing from GCSU in Milledgeville, GA, home of Flannery O’Connor.
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