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Time is of the essence, so I’m gonna jump right into my feedback. 1. Much of your proposal seems to me to be market research into TikTok (What makes it popular? What do users like best, etc.). As the prompt points out, however, those kinds of market-research/consumer-review approaches aren’t what a TED Talk audience is looking for. They’re looking for intellectual insights, not profit-making opportunities. So I suggest that you revise and refocus on something you mention near the end of your proposal: TikTok as a tool for teaching science. I confess that I’m not a TikTok user, so I don’t know where specifically you might go on the platform to study that aspect. But it seems to me that you might come up with some really interesting arguments if you compare and contrast the specific and unique ways that TikTok serves as a tool for educating people about science with the ways that it has no doubt been used to spread misinformation about science, vaccines, etc. What specific features makes TikTok uniquely well suited to teaching science? Are those same features also especially well suited to teaching junk science? Or do educational TikToks and mis-educational TikToks differ I some fundamental way? (These are just illustrations of my point, not suggestions as such.) 2. The suggestions that I’ve made here call for some significant revisions. Happily, you have a revised proposal due on Friday. Please remember that revising your research question paragraph means revising the next two paragraphs, too, especially the one about what makes your project interesting (at least potentially) to both segments of your audience.