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there are a decent number of people who make money and market their business on tiktok. those people are probably concerned about their future

kelvinjps10 2y ago
They only care about the userbase they will just start publishing to whichever platform users choose
tivert 2y ago
> those people are probably concerned about their future As they should be, because they stupidly made their lives dependent on a single platform that anyone with a brain could see was likely to run into trouble sooner rather than later. The lesson for the is: don't put your eggs in one basket.
- sethammons 2y ago
  Your response is very unempathetic. I am not a "content creator," and hn is the closest thing I use to social media, until TikTok a year or more ago. I won't be following anyone anywhere; I'm not on those platforms. I listened to the final, farewell videos of several people. Some have leveraged TikTok on other platforms, but for a great many, TikTok was the only platform that let them reach an audience. TikTok was eating the competition because it was simply better at matching content. It is a completely different beast in that regard. Calling people stupid who leveraged an unrivaled technology to build a community and/or a business feels particularly anti-human.
  - tivert 2y ago
    > Calling people stupid who leveraged an unrivaled technology to build a community and/or a business feels particularly anti-human. I'm not calling them stupid for that, I'm calling them stupid because they didn't have a back up plan. Public policy should revolve around what they need or want (e.g. I'm sure some farmer somewhere could make a sob story video about how growing opium poppy has been so good for them, so heroin shouldn't be banned, but it's not about him).
popcalc 2y ago
They had an entire year to prepare.

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there are a decent number of people who make money and market their business on tiktok. those people are probably concerned about their future

by dmonitor 2y ago

kelvinjps10 2y ago
They only care about the userbase they will just start publishing to whichever platform users choose
tivert 2y ago
> those people are probably concerned about their future As they should be, because they stupidly made their lives dependent on a single platform that anyone with a brain could see was likely to run into trouble sooner rather than later. The lesson for the is: don't put your eggs in one basket.
- sethammons 2y ago
  Your response is very unempathetic. I am not a "content creator," and hn is the closest thing I use to social media, until TikTok a year or more ago. I won't be following anyone anywhere; I'm not on those platforms. I listened to the final, farewell videos of several people. Some have leveraged TikTok on other platforms, but for a great many, TikTok was the only platform that let them reach an audience. TikTok was eating the competition because it was simply better at matching content. It is a completely different beast in that regard. Calling people stupid who leveraged an unrivaled technology to build a community and/or a business feels particularly anti-human.
  - tivert 2y ago
    > Calling people stupid who leveraged an unrivaled technology to build a community and/or a business feels particularly anti-human. I'm not calling them stupid for that, I'm calling them stupid because they didn't have a back up plan. Public policy should revolve around what they need or want (e.g. I'm sure some farmer somewhere could make a sob story video about how growing opium poppy has been so good for them, so heroin shouldn't be banned, but it's not about him).
popcalc 2y ago
They had an entire year to prepare.