TikTok is the international version of the app Douyin (抖音), released by the Chinese company ByteDance in September 2016 after merging with Musical.ly[6]. Douyin, the app that TikTok was based on, was originally released in the Chinese market under the name "A.me" in September 2016. TikTok allows users to watch short-form videos for up to 3 minutes from a variety of genres, which come from ...