tik tok dying soon .. maybe

[Low End Derrick]

You cant just "ban" something that is this popular globally. America fell off

Subway Surfers still moving units like that?

 

[The Message]

complain about tiktok stealing your data, but still use instagram, facebook and have an iphone brehs...

 

[bnew]

Did y’all watch the video? Why y’all talkin like tik tok is providing a livelihood for your average person

Mr Beast get billions of views he said he only made 15k off the app

fukk tik tok clearly China tryna make the rest of the world stupid

people are using it to gain followers to divert to other platforms or online stores. the video acknowledged it was easier to gain followers than on any other platform.

 

[bnew]

You cant just "ban" something that is this popular globally. America fell off

India did, that's because that have a more draconian legal framework that allows them to censor anything online and beef with china.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

False. Almost no one makes money from Tik Tok. That's the fukking scam of it.

They have one pool of like $10m that pays out to the top .0000000001% of creators on the platform. SOME people can pivot their views into other shyt, but most don't. Its all fleeting.

YouTube still the king of online content creation. People can make 100k in ad revenue with an average of like 5k per video. (but you do have to post regularly).

There's no such think on TikTok.

Popularity & Fame =/= Riches

It’s not just the creator’s fund. A lot of small businesses have had products go viral. It’s much easier to be seen on Tik Tok, than other social media platforms.

 

[IIVI]

If you really want to understand how things work then this is a big brain article with examples from Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tiktok, etc.

The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok

Or how, exactly, platforms die.

www.wired.com

It basically states how these apps basically builds a chokepoint into a payola for the site itself:

1. First the app is directed at providing a good product to the users. It's legit at this point.
2. Then starts showing suggestions to users for magazines, blogs, etc. with links to articles.
3. Then these apps start taking away the article links forcing these magazines and publications to start posting their full content on these apps rather than linking back traffic to their own site.
4. These apps then start showing these publications' materials less and say: "If you want us to "suggest" more of your content, pay up (payola).
   1. What's messed up is the original publications don't even get the visit/traffic to their site because all their content is on those social media pages to be the most efficient. Which makes sense, people mainly read the headlines anyways: that are on the tweet and don't visit the actual article.
5. Now that site is basically a page on the social media app, because that's where most of the views are now.

Most people most likely read the headline on that social media app and go right into talking about the article on that app's comment section, again, never giving a view to the magazine/publication profit off of.

If you look at Amazon for example and you search for anything, usually what they show you aren't necessarily you closest match to your search phrase, but who have paid the most to Amazon for advertising.

Which brings me to Tiktok. Tiktok is many different things, including "a free Adobe Premiere for teenagers that live on their phones."

But what made it such a success early on was the power of its recommendation system. From the start, Tiktok was really, really good at recommending things to its users. Eerily good.

By making good-faith recommendations of things it thought its users would like, Tiktok built a mass audience, larger than many thought possible, given the death grip of its competitors, like Youtube and Instagram. Now that Tiktok has the audience, it is consolidating its gains and seeking to lure away the media companies and creators who are still stubbornly attached to Youtube and Insta.

 

[Blossom]

now that we have reels on IG and shorts on youtube why do we need tiktok?

 

[Breh13]

It's a nice app to lose a few minutes in. Got a decent enough algorithm that I get the videos I would like. Takes a while though.

Youtube shorts is getting there too.

 

[Hoodoo Child]

I doubt it

 

[NoirDynosaur]

There’s a lot of Americans making money from Tik Tok.

Social media is one of the greatest tool in elevating your business

Find a niche. Present your product. Be consistent. Watch the algorithm works it magic.

 

[boogers]

tik tok is trash but all social media is trash. i cant imagine theyre up to any more fukkery than twitter or facebook... only reason its controversial is because its Chinese.

i tried it out.. i dont get the appeal, but it wasnt made for me and my flat top i guess

 

[omnifax]

the DoD have no say in what websites civilians access.

You missed my point.

 

[Zime]

Government wanna ban TikTok then allow something like this