Ever-evolving, TikTok has come a long way since the Dalgona coffee tutorials and main character-isms of 2020. Today, the app is an online entertainment network led by young voices that are shaping youth culture across the globe.

Over the next four weeks, Dazed and TikTok will be profiling 20 need-to-know TikTok creators, as part of our Icons in the Making series. Each week, Dazed will spotlight five young TikTokers that are blazing a trail and inspiring a new wave of creativity across four different spaces: entertainment, fashion, beauty and culture.

When it comes to entertainment, there’s usually a clear divide between the audience and the performers. You can’t step into your television screen and ask your favourite star to drop their skincare routine, for example. But on TikTok, creators break down the fourth wall, speaking directly to us with an intimacy and familiarity that you’d normally expect to find on FaceTime with a friend. Then there’s the comments, which are usually a source of entertainment themselves – remember that time Charli D’Amelio commented “you’re telling me this isn’t me?” on a video posted by her literal doppelganger?

What constitutes entertainment on TikTok? There are no hard and fast rules: sometimes it’ll be as simple as a creator adding their unique twist to one of the app’s many trends, telling a funny story straight to camera, or memeifying a relatable experience. On TikTok, being creative, innovative, and genuinely funny are valued over complicated edits or 20-minute-long soliloquies.

Of course, TikTok wouldn’t be TikTok without the…