When Lilman--who's 17 and based in Birmingham, England--joined TikTok in November 2019, the app was an escape from real life and the rest of the internet. He'd been trying to get a dance-focused YouTube channel and Instagram account off the ground, and trying to balance time-consuming, cross-platform, long-form content creation with high school classes was proving particularly stressful.
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