If I HAD to half with TikTok, I suppose I might spend my hours discovering humor within the firm of my associates. The alternative of doom-scrolling is fostering relationships, I suppose. I may additionally begin a category? I’m very into discovering new methods of being unbearable so…possibly performing? —Maya Layne, leisure affiliate
I’ll get round to creating dinner fairly than swiping by way of #ASMR cooking and fridge-organizing movies with the sound all the way in which up. —Taylor Antrim, deputy editor
If TikTok had been taken away from me I might dedicate much more time to creating temper boards for properties I don’t personal. Maybe with the additional time I may take up a profitable aspect hustle and assist make my countryside cottage goals a actuality! —Florence O’Conner, affiliate producer
If TikTok will get banned, I’ll lastly cease scrolling and sit down to jot down the subsequent nice American novel. Additionally, will most likely must discover a new profession, seeing as I spend an ideal portion of the day operating Vogue’s TikTok account. On second thought, that’ll simply liberate extra time for the novel. —Lucy Dolan-Zalaznick, senior affiliate, artistic improvement, social & visuals
With out TikTok I’ll be entering into the grindset by pouring my social media efforts into turning into a LinkedInfluencer. —Hannah Jackson, vogue author
I like an web rabbit gap, however weirdly I’ve by no means been that large into TikTok. Although the one factor I did get very invested in was the nine-month-cruise TikTok drama over the vacations. So possibly in the event that they ban it I’ll, I dunno, guide a vacation? —Liam Hess, residing editor
To not brag, however I deleted TikTok from my telephone over a yr in the past, the hope being that my ravaged consideration span would finally develop again. Whereas I’d like to say that I’ve used the time it freed as much as, like, write a guide or one thing, as a substitute I’ve largely spent it listening to different folks’s books: Late within the Day and After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley and Dangerous Information, the second installment in Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose collection, had been some latest favorites. Additionally, sadly … sometimes watching Instagram Reels? They don’t fairly have the gravitational pull of TikToks, so I’m good after three or 4, however I did encounter one lately that stopped me in my tracks: a video that Joely Richardson had posted of her mom, the redoubtable Vanessa Redgrave, studying a sonnet from the “poetry diary” she’d acquired. So, Congress can do what it likes. —Marley Marius, options editor
