"It's changed music listening from being a one-way relationship where a song comes out and you listen to it on your own, to something that you participate in. I mean, I don't think that any other social media app has done that to this degree. TikTok is peak UGC in that way."
UGC — short for "user-generated content" — is one of the buzzwords currently going around in the music industry.
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categorized as "creativity" in iphone settings rather than "social network"