TikTok’s joy-miners created one of my favourite places on the internet

For me, the TikTok app never added up. It made more sense to go back to where I'd first started watching TikToks - other people's Instagram stories

During Melbourne's first lockdown, Jeanette Nkrumah started spending a lot of time on TikTok.

At first the videos she saw on her For You" page - the personalised home screen that appears whenever a user opens the app - weren't particularly compelling. But as she started spending more time there, the recommendations improved.