Students are addicted to TikTok, a Chinese mobile video app, and a variety of anxiety-inducing phenomena are emerging, according to a teacher in Taiwan who recently called out parents to raise serious concerns about what’s happening. Lin Yichen, a teacher at Taiwan’s Changhua County elementary school, posted an article on March 16 on Facebook titled “Once TikTok rings, parents’ efforts are in vain,” saying that almost all of her sixth-grade class was brainwashed by the popular social network software TikTok. The article lists six phenomena observed by Lin that parents need to know about. First, when TikTok played a piece of short music, almost the whole class knew the tune. Second, students start writing in simplified Chinese characters, which are used in mainland China, and their language level now is worse than the previous year’s students. Taiwan uses traditional characters that maintain the origin, story, and meaning inherited from 5,000 years …