https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-tiktok-content-creators-warn-followers-find-them-instagram-youtube-2024-12-07/ American content creators on TikTok asked followers to subscribe to their channels on rival platforms like Meta-owned (META.O) Instagram and Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) YouTube after a federal appeals court ruled that the social media app could be banned if it is not sold to a U.S.-based company by Jan. 19.TikTok has become a major U.S. digital force as it has grown to 170 million U.S. users, especially younger people drawn to its short, often irreverent videos. It has sucked away advertisers from some of the largest U.S. players and added commerce platform TikTok Shop, which has become a marketplace for small businesses.The U.S. Congress, fearing TikTok's Chinese owners are gathering information about American consumers, has passed a law requiring its owner, Chinese-backed ByteDance, to divest its TikTok in the U.S. or face a ban. On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld the law.Threats by politicians and others to TikTok have been building for years, leading some users to brush off recent threats. That appeared to change on Friday, with the prospect of a ban in just six weeks. A Supreme Court appeal is still possible."For the first time I'm realizing that a lot of what I worked for could disappear," Chris Mowrey, a Democratic social media influencer with 470,000 TikTok followers, told Reuters. "I don't think it's been talked about enough how damaging it will be from an economic standpoint for small businesses and creators."
On the app, viewers and content creators voiced concerns and confusion, many saying they doubted the platform would survive, and that they were prepared for the worst.Chris Burkett, a content creator on TikTok with 1.3 million people following his men's lifestyle videos, said he did not think the platform would last. "I don't think there's longevity on this app in the United States," he said in a video post, asking his audience to follow him on other social media platforms, such as Instagram, YouTube, X and Threads."We've put so many years and so much time into building our community here," said food travel content creator SnipingForDom, who has 898,000 followers on the app. While he did not think the end was near for TikTok, he still told followers to reach out to him on his Instagram page.Others were also awaiting more information. Sarah Jannetti, a TikTok Shop consultant, said her clients are not worried about a potential TikTok ban and will not shift their businesses "until they see something that's more concrete."
While I'm unhappy about Meta sticking its fingers in so many pies, a DikCok ban would be an extremely welcome change to our society. I don't have the statistics on hand, but I do have many years of firsthand experience dealing with people who are on that stupid fucking app. They are absolutely mesmerized, caught up in a tangled web of content rabbit holes, ragebait, talentless dances and lipsyncing while dressed as a slut, and narcissistic self-worship in front of a camera at unprecedented rates. Mostly zoomies, but older people too have long been posting brainrot videos espousing every nebulous, stupid fucking opinion they could possibly surmise, thinking they're special or cool or hawt and sexy because they can gussy themselves up infront of a phone camera and state opinions on things while censoring half the words out and desperately spamming tags like "#fyp" in an attempt to achieve relevancy and visibility. Part of me almost feels sadness or empathy for the human cattle that mindlessly give up all of their information to our future enemies in WW3 after Taiwan is invaded by a joint Chinese-North Korean operation. I remember hanging out with a girl who INSISTED that I look at her tiktok post history, and as she scrolled down, it was hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of videos where the thumbnail was nearly always her own face, staring down the camera, ready to open her dumb mouth about some stupid controversy or perform a "duet" with some fucking douchebag prettyboy whose skin will be a lot less smooth and flawless in a few years, allowing the next wave of increasingly younger and sexier generations to take his place. Millenials haven't been the youngest or the sexiest generation in many years, and soon enough Z will be replaced by Alpha on the world stage of Attention, the drug that is killing us. I find it very unlikely that China will budge on the sell, I think they have plenty of soft power with their spy app in other countries across the globe.
>only American companies are allowed to spy on and mislead Americans with propagandaI can't believe this is the US position. What an amazing timeline.
>>1367215All the phone Zombies will just switch to another app.
>>1367218What's wrong with that, Chang?
>>1367218Musk will buy TikTok and rebrand it XX,,as he is a genius.
>>1367218Further evidence that it was never about keeping Americans data secure. If it was, we'd have a GDPR equivalent and actual data privacy laws. Data collection is incredibly profitable, and Washington is only concerned with protecting American data collectors from foreign competition. They give zero fucks about your digital privacy.
>>1367304100% true. They have cultivated the hilariously wrong idea that American companies wouldn't do what Tiktok does to their users. Federal and state governments at all levels turn a blind eye. The real question is what would it take to wake up the American people about how they're being exploited and force them out of their apathy? I fear the answer is nothing, it's too late and they've already won.
>>1367218>this doesnt solve every problem with social media, therefore we shouldn't do itShut up retard shill
>>1367306You have a serious problem with reading comprehension.
>>1367307I'd say the same to you
>>1367311I'm not the one telling imaginary shills to shut up because I can't read, that's you.
>>1367239will they?Look how various other 'bans' have been enacted. At best they'll set up geofencing and then the users will bypass this with proxy/vpn and continue as 'normal'.>>1367304>Data collection is incredibly profitable, and Washington is only concerned with protecting American data collectors from foreign competition.If that was true, they'd be making effort on that front. What they care about is the competition, not protecting.>>1367306I'll second the ascertion you are a retard. I'm also not paid to say this, or anything above...
>>1367334>At best they'll set up geofencing and then the users will bypass this with proxy/vpn and continue as 'normal'.It's hilarious that you think more than 100 nerds know how to do this.
>>1367313>>1367334I'm not surprised this thread is full of retards who can't read.
>>1367351It's not rocket surgery. It's barely even 'nerd' nowadays. *click* ยป done. Most people have encountered this by now, even grandma.Even if it's as bad as you cliam - only 100 know - then expect that knowledge to rapidly proliferate.
>>1367365Nobody's gonna go through the effort for a stupid app. They're just gonna switch to YouTube short or something else.
>>1367367Just like no-one went through all the effort (the effort of: click) for other stupid (cr)apps? or for pr0n? Or for anything else you'd find geofenced...Jewtoob is in a death spiral, capitalism and the quest for more profit killed it. The second someone see something better - which won't be hard to deliver on - they'll jump.
>>1367378youtube is more popular than ever what the fuck are you talking about
>>1367381>JewtoobTells you all you need to know about this mouthbreather
>>1367381Clearly. As demonstrated by the continual increase in advertising to desperately try to cover costs. Advertising that is driving people away form the platform because sitting through 3min of advert for 30s of content every few min takes the piss as the flounder and try to mimick TV's business model. Before we start on algorithmical bias and other ways screwgle are steadily destroying the experience.
>>1367383Demonstrate it's worthy of respect and I will adjust my stance. Until then: Much mockery
>>1367218Ostensibly relatable and funny as this is, this is a tired strawman that I'm somewhat sympathetic toward. While it's an indictment of the surveillance society that is the US, it's also sarcastic and unproductive. Do you seriously not think that American corporations and government haven't shoved their dirty fingers into TikTok as much as they possibly can? I imagine they probably gave up on certain rhetoric and methodologies because there are simply too many neoliberal know-it-all college age retarded pieces of fuckmeat who have to share their dumb opinion about everything in between dancing to horribly overplayed and overrated songs, made almost overwhelmingly by degenerate rappers and pop artists. What tiktok did, is doing, and what it's best at is Brave New World comfort media; bullshit distractions. It doesn't cause the same divisive, pernicious political impact as Twitter/X does for example. The US government claims that tiktok is too unchecked and it's too uncensored and exposes youth to too many dangerous ideas, but we all know that this is a bullshit copout designed to obfuscate the fact that the retarded dinosaurs in congress are simply sick and tired of dealing with the backlash and fallout of having military servicemembers making fools of themselves, violating the fuck out of operational security protocols, and espousing opinions that make the US Government look bad. I think they're a little more concerned with that than they are with the surveillance potential. They already have us all by the balls at all times with smartphones, AI facial recognition, and a billion other little niggling nuisances that ensure the permadeath of privacy.>>1367384uBlock Origin & SponsorBlock made youtube nearly seamless to traverse. If we as citizens of the Internet could educate more people about these wonderful conveniences, we could have greedy scummy ad agencies pissing their pants, but most zoomers are simply too lazy and tech-illiterate to consider it.
>>1367402>uBlock Origin & SponsorBlock made youtube nearly seamless to traverseUntil screwgle chose otherwise. They're now on a whack-a-mole arms race with such extensions. This is not helping people like the platform - in fact the popularity of these only go to reinforce my ascertion.
>>1367404Well they're doing a terrible fucking job because I've been using both for years lmao. Most savvy internet users abandoned the original "AdBlock" years ago after it was compromised. While I do see your point, I have faith that the internet at large will stay on top of this shit. It's like radar detector manufacturers vs. the radar guns themselves.
>>1367249When you figure it out let us know
>>1367384>he watches ads on youtubeSomething like 90% of the content on Youtube doesn't have any ads.
