#TikTok related

[funnyshorts]

[troythecatfish]

[winged-on-earth]

imagine going on tumblr, the weirdo website, just to hate on weirdos. its like walking into a pigeon coop and then getting mad at all the pigeons because you dont like pigeons. like my brother in christ you walked into pigeonland. you are a pigeon now

[daily-spooky]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[predictablesloth]

As an American taking International Policy, I have never been more confused than I am watching the Tiktok -> Rednote pipeline

-> Millions of left wing Americans join a Chinese platform out of spite against racist, radical right Congress

-> Chinese users are very welcoming (they aren't left or right wing because there's a sole ruling party in China)

-> Chinese users and American users get along exceptionally well, and bond over cats and respectful questions

-> American users chose Rednote over Meta because of censorship

-> Rednote is even more censored than Meta, as seen in its terms and agreements, and Americans can't really discuss politics there

-> America will soon be run by a soon-to-be-dictator, and the Americans on Rednote hate him

-> China is controlled by a dictator with a fifteen-year streak, and we don't know how the Chinese people feel about him, because they don't have free speech or protest rights

-> Trump and Jinping get along

-> Jinping doesn't want Americans to give the Chinese people any ideas

-> Trump doesn't want China to give the American people any ideas

I don't---I don't know what to think? I don't think this has ever happened before?

Either this gives MAGA a huge advantage or we're about to see a joint Chinese-American people's revolution (half joking 😬)

[idolomantises]

Just a random question to my artist followers: does anyone enjoy posting their stuff on tiktok? I can't tell if its just a me thing or if that app and its userbase are the most obnoxious compared to other social media

[incorrectbatfam]

How does the batfam celebrate the TikTok ban?

So my two cents that no one asked for is that a TikTok ban is actually Not A Good Thing. A lot of small businesses and artists (including my own band) rely on TikTok for marketing and growing an audience. TikTok is also a source of community for people from marginalized groups who might not feel safe expressing themselves in real life, especially younger folks. Not to mention the amount of real-time news we get that other sites suppress, such as the raw footage from Gaza or people organizing healthcare protests.

Does TikTok have issues specific to its platform? Undeniably. It's a digital meth house where I got flagged for the using the fuck word in a lyric. But when you find yourself dealing with a meth house, you don't take a wrecking ball to it and evict the residents. Banning Tiktok won't stop the widespread trends that other social media sites have now adopted. We still have short-form content. We still have algorithms tailoring our feed for the maximum dopamine rush while bombarding us with ads. Companies are still harvesting and selling our data. The worst people you can think of still have a Wi-Fi connection.

What will happen if TikTok is banned is that all these people and all these problems will be dispersed even further, making them even harder to address. All the while, it sets a dangerous new precedent for government censorship and the level of power it has over our information and communication. I don't know about you, but the shit I can't access worries me a lot more than all the shit I can.

[morganbritton132]

Eddie posts a Tiktok where he’s just explaining that TikTok trend where someone’s like ‘we’re (blank), of course blah blah blah’ to Steve. He’s like, “Wanna do one of those with me?”

Steve, who was just woken up from a nap so Eddie could explain this to him, is like, “Eddie…please, I cannot hear you if I don’t have my glasses on. Do not talk to me right now.”

[daily-spooky]

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[high-quality-tiktoks]

either the absolute best or horrifying feeling

[the-fandom-crossroads]

As tiktok starts banning words based on pro left wing topics I feel like it's important to tell people this is not a new feature. Tiktok always had this code you just didn't notice it before. You know, the whole K1ll thing users do.

The no results found blacklist is standard code in all social apps in China. You can not have a chat feature without having a blacklist that blocks certain political words. That blacklist gets new words added to it by the Chinese Government and all apps update to ban the new words from search results. TikTok is the western version but it's code skeleton is from the Chinese version.

Remember the Winnie the Pooh is banned in China meme? It is because on Chinese Social media you cannot say Xi JinPing. But a picture comparing Barack Obama and Xi JinPing to a picture of Tigger and Winnie the Pooh started going around. So Chinese citizens critical about Xi JinPing started using the name Winnie the Pooh to mean Xi.

Winnie the Pooh was not banned in all of China you can still buy plushies and you won't like be arrested for owning it. But the characters that spell out Winnie the Pooh will show up with zero results found on social media sites.

Anyone playing on Rednote let me know if the ban is still in place. I'm actually curious since it's been a decade.

But yeah Tiktok either to kiss up to Trump or as part of the deal to get back online added a bunch of Leftist terms to their blacklist code. I am certain as the months go on new terms will be added.

At this point I do not recommend returning to TikTok if you found an alternative during the ban. It's about to be as right leaning as TruthSocial or Elon's side of Twitter. Anything critical of the now current administration will be silenced and removed from the platform.

[bookishjules]

in honor of tiktok just going down, please enjoy my contribution to the infamous caitvi fantastic trend

[confusedmothboy]

can yall guess my favorite character