If I HAD to part with TikTok, I suppose I would spend my hours finding humor in the company of my friends. The opposite of doom-scrolling is fostering relationships, I guess. I could also start a class? I’m very into finding new ways of being insufferable so…maybe acting? —Maya Layne, entertainment associate
I will get around to making dinner rather than swiping through #ASMR cooking and fridge-organizing videos with the sound all the way up. —Taylor Antrim, deputy editor
If TikTok were taken away from me I would dedicate even more time to creating mood boards for homes I do not own. Perhaps with the extra time I could take up a lucrative side hustle and help make my countryside cottage dreams a reality! —Florence O’Conner, associate producer
If TikTok gets banned, I’ll finally stop scrolling and sit down to write the next great American novel. Also, will probably have to find a new career, seeing as I spend a great portion of the day running Vogue’s TikTok account. On second thought, that’ll just free up more time for the novel. —Lucy Dolan-Zalaznick, senior associate, creative development, social & visuals
Without TikTok I’ll be getting into the grindset by pouring my social media efforts into becoming a LinkedInfluencer. —Hannah Jackson, fashion writer
I love an internet rabbit hole, but weirdly I’ve never been that big into TikTok. Though the one thing I did get very invested in was the nine-month-cruise TikTok drama over the holidays. So maybe if they ban it I’ll, I dunno, book a holiday? —Liam Hess, living editor
Not to brag, but I deleted TikTok from my phone over a year ago, the hope being that my ravaged attention span would eventually grow back. While I’d love to say that I’ve used the time it freed up to, like, write a book or something, instead I’ve mostly spent it listening to other people’s books: Late in the Day and After the Funeral by Tessa Hadley and Bad News, the second installment in Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose series, were some recent favorites. Also, unfortunately … occasionally watching Instagram Reels? They don’t quite have the gravitational pull of TikToks, so I’m good after three or four, but I did encounter one recently that stopped me in my tracks: a video that Joely Richardson had posted of her mother, the redoubtable Vanessa Redgrave, reading a sonnet from the “poetry diary” she’d received. So, Congress can do what it likes. —Marley Marius, features editor
