Why the fuck is TikTok a thing?

[GHTD]

I really don't fucking get TikTok. People keep telling me it has some "funny stuff" but when I see anything out of it, it's the same mundane fucking trends with no originality. What's really the point of TikTok other than being a Chinese military asset? It just seems to be trash and cringy to me.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

instant gratification.

 

[SiccDicc]

Because China numbahwan influencer.

 

[w4vy_gr4vy]

It's a magnet for attention seeking zoomers faking mental illness and pedos looking for said attention seeking zoomers faking mental illness.

 

[WhoBusTank69]

The concept of bite-sized entertainment started long before that, but the immediate predecessor to the TikTok formula was Vine - a Twitter adjacent service by acquisition - which challenged creators to make a fun and engaging video under strict limitations on video length. Because of the time period it was launched(2012 - 2017) it was a cringefest; but properly moderated so groomers were restricted to email/instant messengers.
Ever since it was shut down for absolutely no reason at all, zoomers and boomers had been binging compilations on YouTube while wishing they could have been around to make similar content. And so the Chinese stepped in and cursed us by way of obliging these complete and utter faggots, minus the restrictions on video length because they want to take on YouTube or something; who knows.

We do have a TikTok thread for any gems found in that shitpile, which shows that it can be entertaining if you ignore the autism.

 

[Bongocat]

I find TikTok a lot less offensive than Twitter

 

[Pixy]

Vine was shut down, but there was a successor service of sorts. Musical.ly or something similar to that, which the vine junkies who didn't flock to YouTube latched onto. It was based in Shanghai, but people getting MATI didn't have too much of a problem with it.

Bytedance's Douyin reached the same level of popularity as Vine did in its heyday, and that was just in China and amongst the Chinese diasporia. Bytedance figured they might as well gobble up the competitor, Musical.ly, and so they did.

Given that TikTok carried over features that were the main appeal for Musical.ly (lip syncing to copyrighted music), it didn't experience an exodus of users, as it offered what made both vine and musical.ly so popular. YouTube is only now trying to copy the trend with YouTube Shorts.

 

[Baked Al-Aqsa]

I find TikTok a lot less offensive than Twitter

That's like saying you find vomit sitting around from yesterday less disgusting than week old feces.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

Chinese spying and pedophiles.

 

[KittyGremlin]

low effort content

 

[Czechem Republic]

Here's where I expose how much of a normie degenerate I am:

Their recommendation algorithm really is second to none.

Spend about 15 minutes on a new account ing things you enjoy and ing things you don't, and you'll wind up with a feed of videos that can be genuinely entertaining, and almost completely free of political horseshit unlike Twitter.

Also, supposedly they downrank videos showcasing hamplanets and f*gs, which makes them at least a little based.

 

[Bongocat]

and almost completely free of political horseshit unlike Twitter..

I dont use either, but this is the key point for me

1) twitter has EVERY THREAD polluted with political spergery. You can't find hardly anything without some BLM or "sign my petition" shit next to it and damn near every bio has the same kind of shit in it. Theres also the conservative side of twitter and they do nothing but post "insanity!" "What has happened to our country!" "IMAGINE IF THE SIDES WERE REVERSED!"

2) we looked at plenty of silly meaningless stuff as kids. I would much rather kids be doing that than getting preached to by millennial cat ladies, men in dresses with incomprehensible pronouns, and paid DNC shills.

Surely TikTok also has the latter, but that's literally all twitter is anymore.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

TikTok is 'Imagine youtube poop if youtube poop was corporate and devoid of any edginess and originality'

 

[stares at error messages]

Because some people liked Vine.

 

[Flavius Claudius Julianus]

I had a 'dirty weekend' with my latest piece in a hotel last week. Buzzed off some wine, she opened up the Chinese version of Tiktok and we watched videos for about an hour.

I don't get it. You'd have to have the attention span of a hummingbird to find that crap entertaining. It's no surprise the overwhelming majority of Tiktok viewers are women. Lots of feel good catering bullshit that is utterly inane to any man, let alone to any supra-80 IQ human.

I had a similar visceral reaction to Snapchat.

 

[Probably a deer]

Most probably, attention seeking.

 

[Margo Martindale]

Anything can be a huge cultural success when you have billions of chinese dollars to throw at marketing and advertisementz

 

[Polystyrene Glioblastoma]

No matter what I do to adjust, my FYP always ended up the most braindead NPCs being unfunny, voicing shit takes, or exhibiting psychosis. I come here for lolcows in a contained viewing area, TikTok is like a zoo full of escaped gorillas bashing your brains into mush. Disability exploiters, faggot troon trenders, niggers and the chronically online are too much for a healthy brain to handle exposure to in multiple flashes in one minute let alone half an hour.

I don't care about keeping up with Gen Z anymore if it means I don't have to see an insufferable Gen Z "genderfluid" faggot with a middle part in their hair screech about "muh stolen land." Neither do I want to see an advertisement disguised as a regular video for a marketing ploy. I hope the Chicom Chink app dies and the greedy advertisers flop all their money away. It's too easy to get banned for cracking a joke on there anyways and the creators that I find enjoyable just end up shadowbanned or deleted.

 

[Merried Senior Comic]

Chinese espionage and psychological warfare.

 

[AmpleApricots]

and what's the deal with airline peanuts?