‘Mustictok’ on why he joined the social media and her future app
EXCLUSIVE – Steven Schenberg, a medium -end father of four years, is It’s not a typical tictokker.
Fans better known as “Male“Schenberg won a big monitoring with his sweet, short videos about his family or commenting on the trend of pop culture Day. But what attracted this Chicago family to an application to create an account that now has more than 400k followers in the first place?
“Pop culture was my occupation,” Schenberg said Fox News Digital. “Sure. I always followed him. Stay close to the Zeitgeist, if you will. But, you know, I always tried to be a funny guy, if you will. Obviously life happens. You’re getting married, you have children and things like that.”
Schenberg said that time spent time in another city, a makeshore school in Chicago, before a hit by Pandemia Covid-19. In search of a comic socket in that dark time, Tictok took over, “like the rest of America.”
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Long ago, he carved his own niche on the app.
“And I started publishing content,” he said. “And at that time, and probably even today, there were no large groups of millennials. And then it wasn’t-in the twofold click on it, there was not much millennial dad to post on Dad’s content or husband’s content.
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“Married, we have four children. We had a five -year -old, three -year -olds and two twins who are three months old. So obviously it takes a lot of time there,” he laughed. “And I also have a typical job – a job that, you know, holds me in the office at the traditional time, you know, such a species of 8 to 4 or 5th, so the hours are for ticters when the kids are inside the bed there. Tictok.
Asked to choose his favorite story of pop culture in recent weeks, Schenberg took another opportunity to support Dad on the app. Said he fascinated him Spencer Pratt and Heidi MontagTwo former reality stars whose home was one of the thousands burned in California fires. In an attempt to gain funds for renovation, Spencer had more presence in Tictok and promoted Heida’s old pop music. The album unexpectedly shot at the top of the iTunes and Spotify, but Spencer admitted that he was not sure if he was turning into profit.
“What Spencer does in pushing Heidi’s music, he seems so relativized,” Schenberg said. “And you know, he is just a dad who tries, you know, make him act for his family and bring his things back and home back. And that’s something he consumes me and, honestly, roots for him here in the interior of Chicago for he and his family .
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“And I like dads to appear,” Schenberg added. “When I first started, there wasn’t much dad who dad made the content, a lot of millennials, dad. But now that you look there, you have a lot of these dads. Leinart. – He went from the football field, now a lot of his content – although he is still related to sports – with him and his wife and their child or him had to have a hip surgery and navigation to be dad and walk around, all that. You know, these things are fun to see. It’s fun to see other dads really show up on the net and honestly, showing what a good dad looks like. “
Tictok services temporarily closed on January 18, leaving thousands of influences worried about their life. But the application was renovated within one day. Schenberg said he had a positive perspective on the situation.
“You know, for me, I obviously love Tictok,” he told Fox Digital. “So, you know, I will not sit here and say that I am not disappointed, especially with my kind of popularity in popularity to the end, somehow felt like, oh, you know. But if nothing more, I ended up with a high note….
“So, if that was really the end of it – again, although some disappointment, I could hang the hat on the fact that I posted some really quality videos, I hope some people laughed, encouraged maybe several others, and only in general He had great, you know, four or five years on the app, “he continued. “So, that’s how I watched him. I think it’s too – the fact that I have a more traditional job, that Tictok has always been this again, this extra thing I do. And so is some consolation in it.”
But not all tictic influencers have taken the upcoming shutdown Popular Social Media Platforms in Chinese ownership so well after the Supreme Court confirmed the law prohibiting the application if it is not sold in the United States. Some even posted videos about themselves in tears for development.
“I just want a solution in which Tictok will maintain alive,” Schenberg said. “That would obviously be great for me – not only as someone who exposes the content, but only as a consumer. Cool, parenting, tips and tricks and, you know, that used to be Google. And you look at them to say, ‘Hey, which is actually the right answer here? “Or:” Is what my child is doing now? ”
“There is this kind of community that brings together real people,” he continued. “That’s not, again, Google answer or Ai answer … You can feel it. You can hear it. You can see it. And that is really in Tictok. And I would probably miss it the most if I miss it the most, is gone, Just to hear and share the experiences of other people. “
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Although social media can be a fun means of all ages, there was concern that these applications influenced the mental health of young adults. Some health experts warned that the constant need for likes, attention, etc. had a negative impact on children and made them question their value. In fact, a two -party coalition of state attorneys from over a dozen countries and Washington, DC, Filed lawsuits against Tiktoc In October, stating that the video application of a short shape is designed so it depends on the children and harms the mental health of young users.
Keeping in the form of that worry, Schenberg asked at which age he would begin to allow his children to start dealing with social media.
“You know, luckily we’re not there yet,” he said. “Again, the oldest child is five years old. So, we have a little time before we have to keep those conversations. And that is one thing my wife and I will just have to decide for ourselves and what works best for our family. So, you know, What other people do, obviously my wife and I will just have to decide when and where and, you know, have to decide that together. “
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Schenberg said that 2025. His Tiktoca fans can expect more gags they love, and maybe a few surprises, referring to their highly logged in “Friendly” quarrel with Landon Barkerson of Rocker Travis Barker.
“This year, I would love to continue those millennium jams you hear – the songs of our high school years that were so nostalgic and still run in our blood,” he teased. “I would love to continue to push them. The conflict just posted some tour dates, so maybe some opportunity there. And then just usually keep talking about being dad, husband. I would love to bring my wife back to some more content and really just It expands, what we do here in this house and what is it to be a four -time dad. “
Fox News Digital’s Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.