I pretended to be a 14-year-old boy on TikTok — what I saw terrified me

Teenage boys on TikTok are flooded with misogynistic, racist, sexual and violent content — even when they don’t go looking for it, a Post investigation found. I’m a woman in my early 30s, but I recently created profiles for a fake 14-year-old boy named Jayden on TikTok and YouTube. My aim wasn’t to use Jayden’s profile to interact with other people online but rather just to see what sort of content the algorithm fed him if he was completely passive. Within seconds of opening TikTok and YouTube as him, I was bombarded with a dizzying stream of videos of girls lip-syncing and twerking in mini-shorts. After about a minute, things took a darker turn. Mega influencers like stunt-man-turned-boxer Logan Paul, 27, started popping up. After selecting categories of interest for recommended videos, TikTok’s algorithm inundated Jayden’s “For You Page” timeline with eye-popping videos. TikTok Making a phony TikTok account for a 14-year-old boy named Jayden Frank only took 5 minutes.TikTok Paul stars in videos alongside the Sidemen, a popular British YouTube group known for offensive content — one member faced a backlash for his “rape face” video series in 2015. In their “Sidemen Tinder in Real Life” YouTube series, the
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