A parent of a six-year-old recently asked WIRED Magazine’s advice columnist, “My kid wants to be an influencer. Is that bad?” WIRED’s answer, more or less, was that the concerned parent should relax. “All that collective angst about television, movies, newspapers, and theater,” the author wrote, is “a lineage, a rite of passage through which all generations must proceed.” That’s true. But just because “The Twist” was pretty harmless doesn’t mean that TikTok is.