TikTok wants to turn millions of Americans into paid shopping influencers.
You only need around 1,000 followers to earn money eating noodles and selling toys on TikTok Shop.
I'll just say it:
Selling useless shit that kills the planet by keeping billions of people addicted to wasting their finite lives is morally wrong.
Nobody involved, whether it's the company, influencers, or viewers will look back it from their deathbeds and see any good in it whatsoever.
I'm not sure doing good is the goal of anyone involved.
it never should have been.
Nah, plenty of these people will look back fondly on their sports cars, cocaine and lush homes.
That's because they didn't waste their money on plastic China waste while jerking a screen...appears that they actually lived a fulfilling lives while plebs were "entertained"
I'm not so sure. What I've heard is that pretty much everyone thinks about how they were with the people in their lives.
who. fucking. cares.
This "article" is straight astroturfing.
Like, there isnt like 90% of ShitTok / YT is just a paid mess of advertisment, sponsorships and self advertisments for their "Prime" flavored drink that gets you cancer if you arent subscribed.
This is exactly my take. I don’t understand humanity’s need to blame everyone and everything else for their own problems. Stop blaming tiktok for your dopamine addiction. Get help.
Ah yes what the world needs right now - even more scam peddlers. I for one thank our corporate overlords for deciding for us. A waste of natural resources in scale second only to the data-harvesting-marketing ouroboros
While true let's not remove the pleasants agency here which they are willing exercise to "consoom"
Just the thumbnail of greasy slobs shoveling trash into their mouths is pissing me off.
Wasn't tiktok getting banned? Is that still happening?
I hope not, it's algorithm seems fun.
Can you imagine a world without influencers?
Millions? One is reminded of the pyramid scheme "problem" where it basically ends up as everybody can't actually be a salesman if the business is actually going to be viable. Right? Like who are you selling to if everyone else is in on it too?
Sinophobic propaganda doesn't need to be real. It's probably more effective when it's not.
It's like the shittiest QVC and it's all over my fyp. I hate it. I'll see the same person selling the same stupid shirt so many times. There were like a dozen people selling a ghost night light. I caved and bought one because it's actually adorable and my wife loves that sort of stuff and I never give her spontaneous gifts, but it sags in the outlet lmao. Like it just nearly falls out. There's a bunch of people selling some tub scrubber too right now. It's so so annoying. I just wanna see shit posts.
Social media is bad for your brain. There's plenty of communities on lemmy full of shitposts.
TikTok also wants to turn millions of teenagers into "pranksters" who are just begging for a beating.
This reads like Facebook propaganda. If they are paying people who gives a fuck.
I couldn't give less of a poo about influencers making money on TikTok.
My media is inundated with genocidal zionist propaganda completely supported by the state.
What is the difference between Israel and China to make it morally right for you to support one genocidal regime and not the other?
Seems like they don't care about tiktok at all Idk if I'd call that support. Also, I can't speak for him here but none of my tax dollars go to the Chinese government while more of my tax dollars go to isreal than local schools. So if hes from a country aiding Isreal like me he has an obligation to say something about it or else be complicit is his labor buying weapons for genocide. Its the same reason US protestors focused on Biden instead of Netenyahu when this stated. We don't get to vote for or against Bibi, but Biden, we do, or at this point 'did'
