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"TikTok China" exists already, it's Douyin. It was there first (2016). Bytedance created TikTok as "international" Douyin in 2017, then merged it with musical.l

• homarp 6y ago
  Hidden forces behind Toutiao: China’s content king - https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3x-hidden-forces-behind-toutiao-china-s-content-king https://www.ycombinator.com/library/3x-hidden-forces-behind-... is an interesting read.
  • baybal2 6y ago
    Too much hype. 2 reasons for the meteoric rise: Super duper aggressive marketing spend, akin Apple's iphone rollout. A long going murmur about them using funny accounting to drive their valuation into stratosphere, and use it to raise money. "Machine learning" and everything else all fluff. I can pretty much imagine something akin to page rank for videos being used, with some perceptrons sprinkled on top.
    • starfallg 6y ago
      >Super duper aggressive marketing spend, akin Apple's iphone rollout. That's the real reason. Bytedance spent millions, possibly hundreds of millions, to buy those users. You couldn't escape from those ads in 2019.