{'fraction_non_alphanumeric': 0.01913477537437604, 'fraction_numerical': 0.0, 'mean_word_length': 4.755980861244019, 'pattern_counts': {'":': 0, '<': 0, '<?xml version=': 0, '>': 0, 'https://': 0, 'lorem ipsum': 0, 'www.': 0, 'xml': 0}, 'pii_count': 0, 'substrings_counts': 0, 'word_list_counts': {'cursed_substrings.json': 0, 'profanity_word_list.json': 0, 'sexual_word_list.json': 0, 'zh_pornsignals.json': 0}}
IT'S THERE FOR YOU, BUT IS IT #FYP?: A METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTION OF
 RESEARCHING CONTENT VS. COMMUNITY ON TIKTOK

With each new online platform comes a new set of methodological
 challenges when studying its content and the people who reside in that digital space. This
 paper presents a methodological reflection of studying the exchange of health information
 and building of community and safe space amongst queer youth on the video sharing and social
 networking app TikTok. Upon encountering challenges in research related to affordances
 within the app, further questions are posed about how we go might about studying the nature
 of content that users, especially those of a specific and historically marginalized group,
 will come across in their day-to-day engagement with the app, and in so doing exchange
 information and support with one-another. Existing affordances in the app beg the question
 of whether content on this platform can truly be studied or understood, even in terms of a
 simple content analysis, without the direct involvement of users. Replication of the user's
 experience, and natural encounter with content of a specific nature, becomes challenging and
 has its risks.