TikTok video under review? Here's what it means

Since its birth, TikTok has found itself surrounded by contention. From getting banned to promoting content that may seem cringy to some, the app has been at the center of a lot of debates.

TikTok homes a lot of young creators who on multiple occasions have faced controversies. Trends like the Blue Whale challenge and Blackout challenge have landed the app into trouble in the past.

The number of downloads on Play Store and App Store suggests the craze of the app and it is the high traffic that may attract glitches.

Recently, an issue came to light which restricted content creators from uploading a video on TikTok and consistently threw an error “videos under review”.

Frustrated TikTok users took to social media channels to raise the complaint. The issue clearly isn’t limited to a few users.

But what exactly does it mean when your video is under review on TikTok? Here’s a possible theory.

After facing a lot of controversies in the past, TikTok certainly does not wish to trigger another. To ensure no harmful content is floated, videos are put under review to check if they pass the filters before going live.

Their official website goes on to highlight this issue as well.

Our algorithms are designed with trust and safety in mind. For some content – such as spam, videos under review, or videos that could be considered upsetting or depict things that may be shocking to a general audience – we may reduce discoverability, including by redirecting search results or limiting distribution in the For You feed.

But what makes this issue unique is that it isn’t limited to just a few users but in fact has troubled many out there. And for this very reason, it might actually need TikTok’s immediate attention.

The company did come forward and acknowledged the ongoing issue and took a couple of hours to finally fix the issue.

For TikTok users, this has become a norm but thumbs up to the developers as the issues are quickly fixed most of the time.

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