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What are you celebrating, exactly? TikTok isn't going away, it's just going to be sold to American investors.
If they comply.
Some bills don't have teeth. It sounds like this one does. What do you think would happen if ByteDance doesn't comply?
It would be ineffectually banned in the US and Bytedance would continue to rake in money worldwide from not-the-US?
The US population represents ~4% of the world.
Yes, the U.S. population represents 4% of the world, but what about in the economic world?
You're saying people in the US would keep using it if it were banned in the US but still available in the rest of the world? How? It wouldn't be available on app stores, and the website would be blocked by American DNS servers. Most TikTok users aren't tech savvy enough to get around bans.
Just removing it from the Apple App Store world crush its popularity in the US, since iPhones have much more market share here than globally.
Some users might figure out how to view the site with a web browser, but that’s where the other types of blocks come into play.
Lol, I don't agree with what the parent poster said, but your interpretation is way off!
No, he's saying that if ByteDance loses the American market, it won't matter much (it does, in my opinion.)
Which part? How do you see things differently?
I guess you focused on the "ineffectually" part indicating that US users would "ignore the ban." Fair enough. But I think the comment is more about ByteDance not caring about losing the U.S. market.
I don't think TikTok's success outside of the US is relevant to the thread. It isn't being banned because lawmakers want ByteDance to make less money.
Not relevant to the thread, sure. But the parent poster's point was something along the lines of "like ByteDance will give a damn - they still have the rest of the world market, so they will happily accept the ban."
But you're right. Not exactly relevant to the thread.
Google > tiktok APK > install
Most of TikTok's user base is either on iOS or not tech savvy enough to figure that out.
You're underestimating gen-Zers.
Gen Z don't use apple products?
Gen Z know more about tech than you may think.
I think you're missing the point.
Please enlighten me...
I mean... eh? TikTok is hardly the first platform to embrace short-form video. I think the dislike for the app is overblown.
The style is reflective of the medium. No point in making big budget audio/visual multi-hour immersive experiences for a cell phone screen with some headphones. The media has to be short because its for an audience that's stealing time in the middle of a commute or during a break at school or the office. The continuous-feed style is something we just managed to achieve with high speed mobile internet (TikTok would have been impossible on a dial-up device).
Its a young medium. People are still learning what works and what doesn't. And its as prone to getting enshittified as every other venue, thanks to the endless need for higher profits.
But as someone who grew up watching Albino Blacksheep and YTMND meme-tier content and owns a DVD of Super Bowl Commercials, I gotta say that we've had a lot worse.
People say this shit about every medium. And there's definitely awful pieces of individual content.
But a lot of it just comes down to the hyper-sensationalist marketing. And its common to every conceivable media, from Comic Book style front page of print to the "Bwooooong!" they put in every new movie trailer.
If TikToks suck, its largely because they're aping the worst aspects of all the other established media forms.
This seems like an exaggeration on a number of fronts. But even if you can find folks doing this, what's the counterfactual? Would these same people be out hitting the gym or gardening or curing cancer? Or would they just be watching TV or reading a book, instead?
There are folks binging seasons worth of Netflix who would argue otherwise.
They're absolutely not. Go back through the dredges of the '00s-era content mill and you'll find plenty of low-effort crap. Hell, YTMND was the pinacle of low effort crap. It was shit you could crank out in ten minutes with MS Paint and a collection of mp3 snippets.
You'd have heard from folks reading tabloid news or watching reality TV decades ago.
I've seen people scrolling in between reps at the gym. But, again, would this not have been a problem if you'd been blogging instead of TikToking? Or Netflix binging?
Multi-hour tv series are not short form.
A picture of a celebrity attached to a quote from a movie played on a loop is neither.
I simply haven't seen anything to support this claim.
You haven't established anything to disprove. You've just asserted it with some personal anecdote about missing a gym appointment.
It's like saying Taylor Swift isn't inside the top 10 of the Billboard Top 100 so why do you keep insisting that her overwhelming popularity is corrupting America's fragile young egos?
always has been, with vine.
always has been, with twitter, facebook, instagram, snapchat, youtube, uhhhhh... vine, yeah, just mentioned that one. discord, tinder. literally everything.
Look at what the great adpocalypse of youtube was ostensibly about, then look at what it was really about. In any case, always has been.
Always has been.
Assuming you mean "challenge", you could check out the harlem shake, the ice bucket challenge, god, there's a lot of them honestly. Gangnam style. I think probably this is just like, meme culture more broadly, which, say it with me now: always has been.
And finally, always has been.
Also that damned Disco music!
Yeah but that's just on YouTube and Facebook now. Nobody is going to regulate them in the slightest.
It is a slap in the face if they want to say it is too influential to have an adversarial state control it, at the same time leaving it fine for local billionaires to do the exact same things.
The people that create TikTok content are still going to exist even if TikTok goes away. They'll just move to another platform.
Me too. I see no issue with banning it. I've said this before, but people are only outraged because they're addicted to it and may possibly lose it. Fuck tik tock. Among your examples, I will add the misinformation pounding left tok with things like autism and other mental disabilities. Plus, the way people are self diagnosing themselves and acting like it's a fashion statement is outrageous. And then you have the outrage bait videos that explicitly cherry pick information for viewers while holding back the full context of things, which is a tactic there's already far too much of in this country.
Get the fuck over it. The self diagnosing bullshit on tick tok does more harm than good, so no, I don't think I'll "fuck off". Couldn't help but notice you glazed over the sentence I wrote and willfully ignored the misinformation part in an effort to make it look like i have an issue with disabled users. Classic. News flash, but as someone with 2 autistic children who were medically diagnosed, seeing this "put a finger up for x, if you have more than 3 fingers you are autistic" fad is absolutely bullshit self diagnosis being flaunted like its "cool" when they dont even have a medical diagnosis. I have nothing further to say to you. Have a nice day!
Yeah bud, so anyway self diagnosing as a fashionable accessory is bullshit, and you can fuck off. It's called insurance. It costs nothing to get diagnosed, and it's not that hard to get state assistance, which I did, for their diagnosis, after fighting tooth and nail for 2 and a half years to get my children the help they needed. You clearly have no idea how this works, and I'm not going to go out of my way to explain it to you. Seeing people pretending to have autism (and some who straight up lied about having it-google it, I'm not doing it for you) when I fought so hard to get my kids their diagnosis simply infuriates me, and your spineless melodramatic bullshit isn't helping . Since you're going to sling insults at me because you don't like my opinion, don't expect me to respect you. Grow the fuck up, get off your ass, stop scrolling tik tok, and actually fight for your diagnosis instead of whining about how you can't do it. I'm done wasting my time on you.
Not reading that lol. Since you won't shut the fuck up, I'm gonna just block you.