Thoughts on tiktok?

[GeekyGuy]

It's a big old meh for me, it's a cesspool of 5 second videos, some good, some bad, mostly cringe. I usually only go on it if my friend (who uses it) sends me something on there. I swear I'm not a degenerate.

 

[AkiraKurusu]

What's the opposite of a degenerate? A regenerate?
Hey, that's not giving me squiggly red lines, like "hola" does; it's an actual word. Never knew that.

 

[realtimesave]

I've never used it but I know what the videos look like because there's a plethora of youtubers that just copy/paste it into their youtube lol

 

[ChubSwagLad]

It's garbage and cringe. Most of the content either preys on children or leads to a further deprecation of society. It seems like everyone my age uses it, but I never will.

 

[BobCh]

The source of stupid ads. The trashy app I think.

 

[AncientBoi]

just another spin off of youtube

 

[SG854]

What are you talking about Tik Tok makes quality content

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

What are you talking about Tik Tok makes quality content

how do you find this shit

 

[SG854]

how do you find this shit

Well Tik Tok of course

It gives you nothing but quality

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

sigma male tik toks are so unintentionally funny to me

 

[SG854]

how do you find this shit

Quality Tik Tok

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

Also can i just say how some tiktok ads claim that you can make money by watching videos. Man they are really desperate aren't they

 

[Jayro]

Also can i just say how some tiktok ads claim that you can make money by watching videos. Man they are really desperate aren't they

It's like how people claim to make money from tweeting, like fuck you, you're lying. Ain't nobody gonna pay you to tweet anything.

 

[Anxiety_timmy]

I've seen more kids under the age of 12 on tiktok than i have on youtube. That shit impresses me to a small extent

 

[Jayro]

Its usually when someone around me is watching TikTok, and I keep hearing the same fucking 30 second song looping over and over because several people used the same music in their shitty little videos. Or when someone is sitting there listening to people do these stupid speed-talking videos. They're completely obnoxious to me. I hate the entire TikTok platform. That, and I'm not sure why they decided to name it after an iconic Kesha song, that boggles me.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

iconic Kesha song, that boggles me.

is it really iconic if like everyone forgot the song existed

 

[Jayro]

is it really iconic if like everyone forgot the song existed

I'll rephrase that... It was iconic for the time it dropped.

 

[Deleted User]

A friend recommended it to me once, then i tried it and must honestly say, it's just not mine. I would never install the app again.

 

[FAST6191]

However many months on this is. I have noticed that in various circles that were initially hostile to it have softened, or least become accepting of it. It gets mentioned in discussions as another platform that people use, which is odd because silence is deafening when it comes to various other platforms and many of said same care less about the world as it is and more how they want it to be.

Anyway nothing of quality (other than occasional cringe compilations) has made it out of it to my purview yet. Granted I rarely watch anything less than 15 minutes (or 7 and a half because double speed is the only way to roll, at least until 2.5x comes along without having to download it first) so I am not expecting to encounter much, and from what I have seen tiktok just goes in for a slightly different kind of censorship (both active, shadowban and thumb on the scales) than the "usual" silicon valley types but not in a way that allows anything of note to actually happen.

So to that end have people differed in opinions since the earlier point? Am I missing out on quality content? If I am missing out then is it just reposts of things elsewhere?

 

[Reploid]

hate