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It's not even the content that makes tiktok scary to me. It's the fact that the brain just wasn't designed to handle short-term content constantly redirecting our attention every few seconds.
Think about it, if you have an hour to kill, you could watch a few episodes of a TV show, 6-10 YouTube videos, or well over a hundred tiktoks. That's insane and it should be obvious to everyone that this is not healthy, especially for kids.
The difference between tiktok and everything you mentioned above is that your examples require a level of engagement, where as short term content damages our ability to engage for longer than a few seconds at a time. It's designed to be as addictive as possible and the fact that these companies target children is digusting. These sites ought to be treated like cigarettes and have warning labels on them.
There's also a greater conversation to be had about how algorithms expose us to the worst and dumbest of humanity more often than they showcase the most wholesome and brilliant. I think this gives us a darker picture of things and makes us more cynical and mean.
There's nothing here!