How do you spell it correctly: "tiktoker" or "tik-toker"?
There's a lot of debate in the comments under videos. Some people write it as one word, others with a hyphen. Which variant is considered correct according to modern dictionaries?
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The officially correct variant is "TikToker" with a hyphen, because it's derived from the name of the TikTok app, and words like that are usually written with a hyphen (like "Facebooker" or "YouTuber"). Though, dictionaries are only just starting to record this word, so different sources might have slight variations, but the hyphen is the safer choice. In practice, you'll see all kinds of spellings online, but if you want to follow current standards for correct spelling, use the hyphen.
Actually, these debates in Russian haven't settled yet, and you'll see both versions in everyday speech. Dictionaries are a bit behind the internet, so it's hard to rely only on them here. To put it briefly: hyphenated is more traditional, but people write it as one word more and more often, especially younger people.
I noticed this when my niece was telling me about her favorite content creators. At first she'd write "tik-toker" with a hyphen, like she was taught, but then suddenly she started writing it as one word - it's just more convenient when you're typing fast. Her friends wrote it different ways too, and nobody really worried about it. In the comments under videos you can see that young people really do prefer the non-hyphenated version, though Russian language teachers, of course, are all for the hyphen.
The main thing is to pick one version and stick with it in your own texts so there's at least some consistency within them. If you're preparing something official or for school, it's better to play it safe and use a hyphen - that's considered more correct by classical rules. But in regular internet communication, it's totally fine to write it as one word, like a lot of people do.
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