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On TikTok and YouTube Kids, social interaction is not dyadic but broadcast. Children create content for an imagined audience, then parse likes/views as proxy for friendship. This shifts play from doing together to performing for others . Diary analysis revealed that “satisfying social moments” on broadcast platforms were almost always linked to metrics (e.g., “My video got 100 hearts”), not reciprocal exchange. Conversely, physical play satisfaction derived from shared laughter or rule negotiation. One 9-year-old noted: “I have 500 followers but nobody to play hide-and-seek with.” That is a lie