By Callie Honeycutt, Staff Writer

It’s the year 2015. You arrive home from school and immediately grab your iPod to check your favorite app, Musical.ly.  Flash forward to 2019, and guess what? Musical.ly is back – and its new name is TikTok. 

Take a scroll through TikTok’s “For You” page, and you might spot some familiar faces from First Flight.

“I was making stupid videos that I had seen on the ‘For You’ page,” junior Maggie Beacham said. “I saw one and I did it. It blew up because everyone was roasting me.”

Beacham now has 30,600 followers and is only growing in popularity. She became “famous” from a video that was a popular trend on TikTok at the time. Want to see what she can do? Check her out at Maggiebeacham. 

TikTok is a video-making app that has spiked in popularity over the past year, using popular songs and filters to entice users. The app is designed so that the maker has complete creative freedom and can direct his or her video any way they want.

But just like every other social media site, TikTok has its good and bad sides. According to the local stars, there is more bad than good.

“Well, there’s not many pros – you can say you have a good amount of followers,” junior Brad King said. “Then the cons are you get made fun of a lot for it.”

Still, even with their friends making fun of their TikTok popularity, they don’t stop the grind. 

“My friends make fun of my TikToks all of the time,” Beacham said. 

King can be found on TikTok with the username “peoplesuck17”. Now with 26,300 followers, he became famous from a video that shows him popping in and out of the screen.  

“It was just a video with 780,000 views,” King said. 

With that being said, both King and Beacham could consider making a profit from the social media site.

“Hopefully it will help because if I actually get a platform off of it, I could get paid and it would be good for my future,” Beacham said. 

Sophomore Callie Honeycutt can be reached at 22honeycuttca54@daretolearn.org.