Only users 18 and up will be able to go live on TikTok.
Creators earn money through TikTok livestreams when viewers send micro tips. Currently, anyone over the age of 16 can go live.TikTok is updating its livestream system to limit kids from going live and to allow streamers to only reach adults.a slew of changes to its livestream feature, including new age gating methods and creator tools.
“To protect our users and creators and support their well-being, we constantly work to evolve the safeguards we put in place,” TikTok says in the blog post. In addition to higher age minimums, people hosting livestreams will soon be able to target adults only for streams that are more appropriate for an older audience. Currently, livestreams are sprinkled in to a user’s For You page and on a separate Live feed that users can swipe through. TikTok says adult-only streams could be used for things like certain comedy routines or when creators want to discuss life experiences that they’d rather not have kids watch.
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