Older people are using Tik Tok to fight ageist stereotypes, research finds
Older people are using TikTok to fight ageist stereotypes, research finds. The video-sharing platform - which is perceived as the domain of Gen Z and younger - is being deployed by those over 60-years-old, according to academics at Yale University. Dr Reuben Ng, an assistant professor at the Ivy League university and author of the paper ‘Not Too Old for Tik Tok: How Older Adults are Reframing Ageing’ said, according to the Guardian: “These TikTok elders have become successful content creators in a powerful counter-cultural phenomenon in which older persons actually contest the stereotypes of o...