Like with anything the youths think is cool, adults are not welcome. While you don't have to be a teen to be on TikTok, the app is very much designed for the underdog: The charm of it all is that one regular person in a bathroom in suburbia can reach millions by doing something as stupid as dancing with their arms threaded through their sweatpants. Which is why adults, especially famous adults, should not be allowed.
No disrespect, but I don't want to be scrolling through videos of the Mr. Sandman cat and weirdly mesmerizing choreography only to have Will Smith come at me with his attempt at matching the humor and cadence of a goofy 17-year-old. It's just not cool. You already get to shine in movies and TV shows and even YouTube! Just let us have this! I will, however, allow one exception: If a famous adult appears in their child's TikTok, then it's totally okay.
This puts the appropriate distance between celebrities and TikTok, while feeding our voyeuristic desire to see them outside of the red carpet ready, picture-perfect context we're used to. Celebrity children have their own aura of mysterious cool that is much better suited to the Gen-Z-dominated app. Laura Dern pushing her daughter to the ground, or Kourtney Kardashian waving in the background of her son's dancing feels like a stolen moment, something we were never meant to see that only TikTok could make happen. Fifteen seconds and it's over.
Here are the celebrity children you should be following on TikTok (and the famous parents that sometimes make an appearance).
Sam Williams
Okay, so you don't care about TikTok, but you have to care about Judi Dench on TikTok, right? It's all thanks to her 22-year-old grandson Sam Williams, who virtually recruited her for the “Juice, Sauce, Little Bit of Dressing” challenge.
Mason Disick
Kourtney Kardashian and Scott Disick's 10-year-old son mostly posts TikToks of his friends and himself dancing, but Kourtney made her way into his most recent video.
Jaya Harper
The 15-year-old daughter of Laura Dern and Ben Harper went viral after her mom butted into her daughter's rendition of Doja Cat's "Say So."
Romeo Beckham
According to Victoria Beckham, her son with David Beckham, 17-year-old Romeo, literally uses her to gain TikTok clout.
Coco Arquette
Courteney Cox and David Arquette's 15-year-old gamefully taught her mom how to get in on the TikTok fun.
Deacon Phillippe
While the 16-year-old son of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe doesn't seem to have a public TikTok, Witherspoon posted this behind-the-scenes moment on Instagram.
Iris Apatow
Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann's 17-year-old daughter frequently includes her family in her TikTok videos, but my favorite video is this one about her mom being a gracefully aging, unproblematic queen.
Apple Martin
Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's 15--year-old daughter has yet to make much of a splash on the app, and it might be because she hasn't included either of her parents in her content. As we know, though, she has very particular social media rules.
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