TikTok Begins Extending 18+ Age Gate to Creators of Short-Form Video

It was introduced for live videos last year

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TikTok rolled out audience controls for live creators last year, enabling them to restrict their content to viewers 18 and older, and the video creation platform said last week that it was extending that option to creators of short-form video worldwide over the coming weeks.

The company said in a blog post, “To be clear: Our policies still fully apply to creators who use this feature, and we will remove content that contains nudity and other violations of our community guidelines.

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