Yoooooo Tic TOC back up!!! Just checked mines it’s not a troll 🧌!

[Uchiha God]

Its target Demographic and market research. You’re not apart of their core audience

I’m a senior marketing exec for a comms company with a breadth of experience in recruitment too. Segmentation and targeting aren’t exactly new concepts to me.

Nonetheless, the notion that the vast majority of users are entrepreneurs and/or have their livelihood hinging on the availability of said app - as presented as a counter-argument to my assertion in this thread - is laughable. As is the notion that supposedly not being the targeted demo invalidates or is mutually exclusive with what I said.

It is TikTok we’re talking about, mind.

 

[Uchiha God]

You just don't get it Unc

I’m younger than 90% of thecoli

 

[CopiousX]

An app shouldn’t be this important to people

Whats so weird about it? We did the same thing last week when we thought thecoli was on the chopping block.


Folks invest years of relationships, time, bussiness opps, and memes on these platforms, including this one. The govt might as well be stealing years of people's lives by arbitrarily shutting tiktok down.

They didnt even give people time to migrate pictures, videos, or notes off the app. Imagine if brooks arbitrarily closed this site when you were in the middle of following career advice in 6fig6certs, or following a model in jbo, or getting sports betting tips from a knowledgeable poster in the coliseum.

 

[The Intergalactic Koala]

TikTok has a better search engine than Google now. Let’s start there, I Dont know what kind of shyt they cooked into their algo but it’s miles ahead better than YouTubes

Our tech is damn ancient, It's not even funny. YouTube uses the most lazy AI to pump out bullshyt, push agendas, and ban content creators.

One of my favorite ASMR content creators had her entire channel terminated, because the AI thought she was showing her breasts, when she did a face down approach to the ASMR video.

Thus why folks hover over to TikTok. Like I get it, its a youngin and get money type of steez. My old ass doesn't understand but accept it as long as it's not in my habitat.

This is why Mark and em were shytting bricks because their enterprise is slowly becoming Blockbuster status to the Chinese overlords.

 

[Ohene]

Shouldn't have been banned in the first place. At least not for the reason their giving us. If our data was truly that important, Meta, and other social media apps should be banned as well. Can't tell you how many times through a casual conversation or a search on google, that same content comes up in their adds. If our data and privacy was the primary reason.. then the other apps should have got bushed as well.

i think the issue isnt the possession of data in general...its that the possession is in a Chinese company's hands

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

I’m a senior marketing exec for a comms company with a breadth of experience in recruitment too. Segmentation and targeting aren’t exactly new concepts to me.

Nonetheless, the notion that the vast majority of users are entrepreneurs and/or have their livelihood hinging on the availability of said app - as presented as a counter-argument to my assertion in this thread - is laughable. As is the notion that supposedly not being the targeted demo invalidates or is mutually exclusive with what I said.

It is TikTok we’re talking about, mind.

Then you of all ppl should know the importance of TikTok again they cooked their algo better than Google’s. Google’s and YouTube’s search results pale compared to how TikToks presents itself. That alone is a massive change in user base and operation

Meta and Google can’t smell what TT is cooking.

 

[Uchiha God]

Babble

I do not care about your life story.

Hip-hop is a black creation and art form - and these are the harsh realities you gotta deal with

 

[Devilinurear]

Refresh it and see

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

Ever since they talked about closing that app, I’ve seen an uptick of far right accounts and ads pop up on my IG feed. I don’t even have TikTok nor browse these types of accounts. shyt is weird

 

[Plankton]

I do not care about your life story.

Hip-hop is a black creation and art form - and these are the harsh realities you gotta deal with

LOL. Yeah, I'm noticing that me talking to you is just me throwing pearls to swine. At the end of the day, if you aren't making money from social media in the 2020's then you lost. If you aren't monetizing from some sort of social media platform outside of The Coli, in 2025, you lost. We aren't in the 2000's anymore, nobody should be on the internet for free.

You can have the final word. I'm done.

 

[RaspberryFitted]

the entrepreneurs losing their livelihood angle is stupid

 

[billsburydoughboy]

i think the issue isnt the possession of data in general...its that the possession is in a Chinese company's hands

I agree with that part, but what can they do with my data that an American company already can't?

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

the entrepreneurs losing their livelihood angle is stupid

ELI 5 why you think it's stupid especially when it comes to e-commerce since ppl no longer use brick and mortar stores

 

[Human Torch]

Trump couldn’t even draw it out to make it look authentic lol

 

[Ohene]

I agree with that part, but what can they do with my data that an American company already can't?

its homeland security shyt - its deeper.

China is a sanctioned country thats currently tied to Iran and Russia I think - other sanctioned countries.
China also has a reputation for stealing and using the intellectual property of American companies whenever it was producing their goods.
China's government also basically has free reign to do whatever they want to and with Chinese companies i think. Imagine the Chinese govt / military forcing tik tok to give location data on key politicians or military officials

I dont know all the ins and outs but there is a bit of a cold war going on between China and the US so it is definitely not in the interest of the American public for Chinese companies to have deep intricate knowledge on Americans