TikTok used to be called musical.ly and was a platform for publishing short playback lip-sync and dance videos. If you're dead-set on naming an intellectual rel

TikTok used to be called musical.ly and was a platform for publishing short playback lip-sync and dance videos. If you're dead-set on naming an intellectual relative among 'western' apps/sites, Vine would be the closest fit (which was basically Twitter for videos and, appropriately, purchased by Twitter and later shut down).