TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out

Some irony there. Tik Tok wants to be more like Youtube with its long form content. Youtube wants to be more like Tik Tok with its shorts content.

Neither seems to be winning the opposing battle.

Unfortunately, if twitter has shown us anything, it's social networks are ridiculously hard to destroy, even when actively self-sabotaging

Oh no!

Anyways

It's so funny one wanting to become the other, yt went to shit after shorts and tiktok is doing the same.

Sounds a bit more like the format is getting very exhausting to people, and more people are recognizing the unhealthy effects.

So now they need to go the opposite direction to try and fix it

More good news! Please!

The enshittification continues, until morale profit improves.

Stop, I can only get so erect!

I don’t really agree with this post, at least in title (and not in the way many commenters seem to be “agreeing with it” despite maybe not reading the article).

Tiktok is getting worse… for users. Not for “itself”. It’s the same as Facebook or even other tech based services like Uber. They start off good and very user friendly to draw people in, often operating at a loss for years… and then they clutter themselves with ads and other monetizing features.

I don’t know Tiktoks profit loss margins but I’m guessing that it’s financially near or at its absolute peak performance so far, just as Facebook has continued to raise profits year after year despite often being detested more and more as time goes on.

Is that a bad thing?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The company is pushing its eCommerce so hard you hear about it more than any other topic on the app, both in ads and organic videos from creators hoping for a share of the profits.

In a bid to compete with YouTube, TikTok is reportedly preparing to allow users to post 30-minute videos and prompting creators to upload horizontal content instead of the app’s standard vertical format.

Outrage is brewing among a growing contingent of users who post videos arguing TikTok is ruined now, and analysts say the company is jeopardizing its success.

But TikTok spearheaded the short-video revolution, and it risks straying from its core use case of fun, entertaining clips and losing its edge.”

The problem was bad enough that The Atlantic ran a story with the headline declaring “Instagram Is Over.” As time wore on it seems Meta has stuck the landing, but only through abandoning or at least retooling the projects that were alienating users.

Instagram honed its Reels product, ditched its shop, and embarked on a PR campaign promising that the app was hearing and responding to complaints.

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"horizontal content"

I mean... C'mon. WHAT RATIO?!

Maybe TikTok does understand me.

Good. Hurry up.

We should start our own video platform, with no rules other than hate speech prohibition and dark web-esque content removal. Never sell to Google. Never sell to Tencent. Never IPO. Just maintain the servers and hire enough technicians to maintain a content scanning algorithm. Keep it small and provide a cleaner experience by not fucking around with adblock users. Just have a platform that utilizes ads, don't punish adblockers, and with those metrics in hand, approach advertisers and charge less than youtube charges.

I don't care what happens to tiktok itself, but I still enjoy watching videos on tiktok, and a lot of creative people will post a lot of interesting videos, which I also download using tiktok downloader.