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It's not just about the data that Tiktok pulls from its users, its also about what it pushes to them. Tiktok feeds in the US and the rest of the world tend to b
by dartharva 4y ago
It's not just about the data that Tiktok pulls from its users, its also about what it pushes to them. Tiktok feeds in the US and the rest of the world tend to be wildly different than those in China. Douyin, Tiktok's Chinese version, primarily features content related to self-improvement, martial arts, life hacks, exceptional individual achievements, motivational clips etc. Meanwhile Tiktok in the rest of the world primarily features unhinged teenagers doing silly dances, random movie/TV show clips with cringy music added in, "reaction" videos and other immature antics. A clear-cut difference in priorities and intentions baked into their algorithms.
- nevermindiguess 4y agoVery interesting point. I wasn’t aware of it. It would be some kind of psyop of the Chinese government where its own citizens are served intelligent content and get progressively smarter, while the citizen of the enemy are served retarded content and get progressively more stupid. This would actually seem to match what we see nowadays in western society. Virtue signaling, Russophobia, LGBTQ propaganda, and so forth. The other day it came to me that the huge number of American girls doing porn is actually a sign of how a country has effectively reduced its own women to nothing more then prostitutes. There is a huge irony there, since the populace itself actually still thinks they live in the greatest country in the world. Thankfully, most of them don’t have a passport to go and check the rest of the world.