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Half of popular TikTok videos about Baby Boomers portray older adults negatively, risking reinforcing stereotypes and creating intergenerational conflict

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Videos about older adults on TikTok

image: 1 in 2 videos about older adults on TikTok portray them negatively. view more 

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Half of popular TikTok videos about Baby Boomers portray older adults negatively, risking reinforcing stereotypes and creating intergenerational conflict

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0285987

Article Title: Videos about older adults on TikTok

Author Countries: Singapore

Funding: We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Social Science Research Council SSHR Fellowship (MOE2018-SSHR-004). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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