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2012: Zhang Yiming founds ByteDance, and sketches the concept for TikTok on a napkin.
2014: Alex Zhu and Luyu Yang launch Musical.ly, a lip-sync app.
2015: Musical.ly takes the top spot in the Apple app store in the US.
2016: ByteDance launches Douyin in China, and Musical.ly users appear on the cover of Billboard.
2017: ByteDance launches TikTok in Indonesia, and buys Musical.ly for $1 billion.
2018: Musical.ly is sunset, and TikTok surpasses Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube in monthly downloads.
2019: TikTok agrees to pay $5.7 million to settle child privacy violation claims, and Ratatouille becomes a viral sensation.
2020: TikTok warns the US Department of Defense to remove the app from government devices, and Khaby Lame becomes the most followed creator on TikTok.
2021: More young people are using TikTok as a search engine, and the Biden administration signals it wants Congress to take more action against TikTok.
2022: The Grimace milkshake inspires a genre of videos, and PinkyDoll inspires copycats to act like a video game character.
2023: Cecilia from Svalbard shows far-flung places on TikTok, and millennials confess to not knowing what to wear in the post-pandemic era.
2024: Users come to Luigi Mangione’s defense after he is charged with murder, and Bad Bunny’s album “Debi-tirar mas fotos” strikes a chord with abuelos and abuelas.
2025: Lawyers for TikTok and creators argue before the Supreme Court that banning the platform would infringe on the First Amendment, and some download Red Note, a video-sharing app developed in China.
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