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TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

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Re: TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

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post #241

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Let's say one American says "China good" another American says "China bad". TikTok can make sure that former gets more views.

And we all know that that's not what happens now on any major non Chinese media platforms. The reality is that most of these platforms demonize China good contents and their creators, applying double standards https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-01-22/YouTubers-under-fire-f...

CGTN is Chinese State Owned btw.

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It's exactly where the issue is. It's no mistake, product management at Google isn't dumb.. here is how it works. YouTube, for years even post acquisition made no money, kept bleeding to aquire users. At one point a revenue stream is implemented, which must keep growing to recoup the large investments. Not to mention, pure greed. The algorithm isn't designed to promote quality content to enhance the user experience a…

> better suited UI and overall UX proven to be attracting younger audiences who tend to make trends with their creativity The funny thing is that most of the people I follow on TikTok are over 30, a good portion is over 40 =)

Of course. You are probably in that age range yourself so that's your circle, and barely content creator I would assume. Youngsters innovate, the previous generations tend to follow.

Re: TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

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It's exactly where the issue is. It's no mistake, product management at Google isn't dumb.. here is how it works. YouTube, for years even post acquisition made no money, kept bleeding to aquire users. At one point a revenue stream is implemented, which must keep growing to recoup the large investments. Not to mention, pure greed. The algorithm isn't designed to promote quality content to enhance the user experience a…

Please. I don’t want social features in my video library app. I unsubscribed from YouTube since I can’t remove “shorts” from the interface. I’m not going to pay for them to lobotomize me…

The social aspect is on YouTube as much as it is on tiktok, one got it work better in term of UX. As for shorts, the same critic can be made of Twitter, which I despite but the content is forced concise for the reason mentioned in another comment. Shorts on YouTube and Facebook are some poorly implemented afterthought, in playing catch up, I also find it sad we can't hide them altogether.

Re: TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

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> better suited UI and overall UX proven to be attracting younger audiences who tend to make trends with their creativity The funny thing is that most of the people I follow on TikTok are over 30, a good portion is over 40 =)

Of course. You are probably in that age range yourself so that's your circle, and barely content creator I would assume. Youngsters innovate, the previous generations tend to follow.

Yea, it's a bit of a meme on TikTok how "old people" took over the app during Covid :D

Re: TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

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post #339

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What the hell are you talking about? China is currently undergoing an active genocide.

It must be a serious indictment that an active genocide causes less fatalities than the war in Iraq, then.

Look up the definition of genocide. Mass killing is not a requirement.

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post #158

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Do you think there can be good authoritarian regimes? Or is democracy the only way?

Let's say there can be - is China one?

If the supremacy of democracy is not absolute, then who's to judge whether China is or is not one?

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And we all know that that's not what happens now on any major non Chinese media platforms. The reality is that most of these platforms demonize China good contents and their creators, applying double standards https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-01-22/YouTubers-under-fire-f...

CGTN is Chinese State Owned btw.

So they are the best candidate to point out the Western media's double standards, right? There is no better assuser of the villain than the victims...

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CCP propaganda won’t be a red flying with people chanting “China is great!” It will be something like “masks aren’t effective” to increase the impact of COVID on America.

And yet if you walk across the aisle, you will hear people saying the opposite: CCP propaganda is something like "vaccines are effective" to increase the microchip coverage, or whatever.

Isn't that what I said? People have vaccine hesitancy because of propaganda from other countries undermining confidence in the government.

Re: TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

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post #283

Whelp this is not a trend TikTok really is just that addictive. I created an account and its a firehose. I post short permaculture videos: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMRfVWm76/

Heads up that your link, vm.tiktok.com is tracked to your user. If I go to that video and share a link, I'll get a different URL. Previous iterations of their web frontend revealed user account info (eg the name used to register the foxhop user, assuming you snagged that username), but it looks like the current frontend no longer shows that.

What should I do instead, not use TikTok or is there a "safer" way to share?

Re: TikTok overtakes YouTube for average watch time in US and UK

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post #125

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The cost to hack hilary's unauthorized personal email server could not have been that high.

Hillary didn't get hacked, it was one of the other people in her circle who got phished. John podesta I think? Anyways. Yeah, phished. Maybe it's super secret agents or maybe it was a teenager from 4chan.

> Maybe it's super secret agents or maybe it was a teenager from 4chan.

Actually Hillary was hacked by a lone wolf from Romania, and he received jail for this https://youtu.be/8gfzNyZ3trI

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