Comment on TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out
Krauerking@lemy.lol 11 months agoI will say it was incredibly fast how quickly it transitioned to a giant money making machine compared to older platforms. It’s much more rapidly viewable, and seems to have more conversation around that then it being legitimately a worse social platform.
The COVID boom to tech is the most probable answer as it was steroids to isolation accessable social interaction. But man they aren’t even trying to ride the wave anymore but capture as much of the leftover ripples as possible.
Minotaur@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Definitely. I think a lot of it is just that other websites like… already took the time to figure it out. Sites like google, YouTube, Facebook, they all had to take 10+ years to figure out how to effectively monetize. Tiktok doesn’t need to really “wait” because it can just copy off their papers
Krauerking@lemy.lol 10 months ago
That’s actually a really fair point. Why would you wait to do what is working for other sites when the goal is to waste as little investor money as possible?
COVID means the money is available, the path is pretty much discovered. So they took the moment and ran with it. Hm.