What TikTok tells us about Pakistan

TikTok allows creators – or, ‘musers’, as most Pakistani TikTok-ers call themselves – to make short videos lip-syncing to songs, dialogue from movies and TV shows, or performing something original.— Dawn/ANN

THE first thing that struck me was their voices.

You see, unbeknownst to them, I had been watching them for a few days now but had rarely heard them speak. I’d seen them move through their bedrooms and homes, colleges, favourite restaurants and malls.