TikTok Rolls Out New Crediting Tools

Amid TikTok’s huge popularity, one aspect that the social media giant has been slammed for is its spread of viral vids without credit to the trend authors. Now, after hundreds of stolen dance moves and memes, the app is finally launching a few new creator-tagging functions. 

This new functionality will aid trend originators in directly tagging, mentioning, and crediting content in the description. TikTok will also make the process of tagging trend originators during posting a lot easier. Want to know more details on the topic? Keep reading this post.

One of the aforementioned new TikTok crediting tools comes in the form of a button that allows creators to credit everything that inspired them for their content, such as choreos, quotes, viral songs and more. That way, by tapping on the credit from the vid’s caption, the platform users will get to explore all the content authors behind a certain viral trend.

Here’s how you can utilize the new during-posting TikTok crediting functionality:

1. Work up or edit a new vid.
2. Hit the new ‘video’ icon.
3. Choose a video that inspired you to generate this particular content.
4. Once you do that, the video tag will be shown in the caption.

Along with the new functionality for enabling users to credit trend authors, TikTok is also about to introduce enlightening pop-up notifications explaining the importance of tagging the sources of your inspiration. As a matter of fact, this enhancement is mainly a response to a multitude of TikTok content authors complaining about others’ parasitic habits practiced within the platform.

So, what’s your opinion on the topic? Do you think the new crediting tools are vital for the TikTok community? In your view, will content authors receive more credit for their efforts now that the new functionality is being added? Please post your insights about the topic in the comments section below. Your perspective is highly appreciated.