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TikTok ‘deinfluencers’ tap into trend for saving money
- wkat4242 4y agoOf course TikTok makes money from advertisers so I'm sure they will catch up soon and start deprioritising this stuff in their algorithms.
- heartbeats 4y agoI don't think anyone is that advanced. As long as people watch it, they don't care.
- wkat4242 4y agoThey do, they use a "heating" button to promote content they gain the most money from. See this excellent article about platform enshittification by Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
- heartbeats 4y agoYes, but this is first-order thinking. That's common. The mechanism here is: "Content X directly makes TikTok/Amazon/etc more money [better ads]" -> more profitable -> show it more. Second-order thinking is much rarer, and looks something like this: "Content X makes people more reluctant to buy stuff from other places" -> less profitable for someone else -> ??? -> shut it down. This is much rarer. TikTok can run ads on both sorts of content, so we shouldn't expect this to be totally clamped down on.
- helmholtz 4y agoI regret reading this "article". 58000 views on one video, a tag that has 158 million views, and a whole lot of tempest in a teapot. I learned nothing of value from this. People hating consumerism is not new. Just like nothing in this article is.
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