
Remember the time when everyone was excited about social media and the opportunity it allowed to reconnect with long-lost friends, or to make new ones online? This may have faded as it became overly monetized, but it still holds the ability to do good, as Tobias Forge found out in 2022. Ghost's track "Mary on a Cross," which is off the 2019 EP "Seven Inches of Satanic Panic," became a TikTok sensation, opening the band up to a whole new audience and leading to a substantial climb in the Billboard charts.
The event caught Forge off guard, and while he's appreciative of what transpired, he isn't about to jump on TikTok and do his best Taylor Swift dance impersonations just yet. "I'm old; I've never been interested in social media," he told Kill Your Stereo. "I don't have room in my life for social media. That would be an intrusion into my life that would disturb me. So, therefore, I've never fully understood it."
He explained how his children were the ones who had to explain the concept of TikTok to him, and he is okay with what it is and people using it. However, he just isn't a fan of social media when it is used for nefarious purposes.
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