Newsletter Get the best of The New Yorker in your in-box every day. Submit Privacy Policy Sign in Shop News Books & Culture Fiction & Poetry Humor & Cartoons Magazine Crossword Video Podcasts Archive Festival Subscribe Subscribe Brave New World Dept. September 30, 2019 Issue By Jia Tolentino September 23, 2019 TikTok doesn’t ask you to pretend that you’re on the Internet for a good reason. Illustration by Nick Little Brave New World Dept. September 30, 2019 Issue By Jia Tolentino September 23, 2019 TikTok doesn’t ask you to pretend that you’re on the Internet for a good reason. Illustration by Nick Little Marcella is eighteen and lives in a Texas suburb so quiet that it sometimes seems like a ghost town. She downloaded TikTok last fall, after seeing TikTok videos that had been posted on YouTube and Instagram. They were strange and hilarious and reminded her of Vine, the discontinued pla...