TikTok ban has influencers scared they might end up broke, and some are already thinking of suing the government 👀
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Sell the Benz lady smh
Look like Government is forcing them into prostitute. Miracles only in Trump hand.
I think there is something to fiat and the rise in OnlyFans workers. These things aren’t operating in isolation.
Smells of 😏
Guess you'll have to go to OF... Or maybe get educated and provide real value to society.
Somebody should tell here. Buy othere side do we need #garbage here on #nostr
It’s times like this I actually start wondering whether a nuclear war might not be such a bad idea!
#1984 was my personal nuclear war
Be careful if there's a year for that... 2025 it is.
Uranus is moving into Gemini in July! 
“Without TikTok there is no me.”
💔heartbreaking. When your identity is tied to something so fragile and held hostage by someone else, then you frigile and forcibly enslaved. I hope she makes it -I feel for these kids.
Amazing 🤯
Get a job
maybe shouldn’t have over extended yourself …
tried bitcoin
Don't build your digital life on something that can disappear at a moments notice. Become rugpull resistant or perish.
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This is why I nostr.
This is only slightly an issue regarding centralized and decentralized platforms.
This is largely a lesson in not understanding one's income to expense ratio.
If one is an influencer, one is a business.
If one doesn't understand business, don't be an influencer.
Lessons come at one fast and hard.
Money gets debased, real estate burns down (after State Farm Bails on your policy), government lies to you constantly, and massive corporate entities view you as chattel.
Tell me more about what you never understood.
#nostrOnly
As much as I love clowning on TikTok and their users, here's the reality: ByteDance will sell. Maybe not their algorithm, but they'll sell a name that is worth nothing to them stateside if they remain on course. Someone will shell out the billions and the brain rot will continue.
Get a real fucking job.
the govt has been warning about this ban for months. why buy a Benz when you know there's a pretty good chance you will lose your income? she needs to feel the pain.
My business was shut down during COVID because the government deemed it "non-essential."
So when I see comments like "get a real job," I can’t agree with that mindset. Every job is "real" if someone is willing to pay for the service or product. We can debate the merits of what qualifies as a "fiat job" all day, but the fact is, many influencer jobs would still exist under a hard money system.
To me, the issue isn’t the existence of influencers or how they make their living. The real problem lies in the government’s ability to shut down someone’s livelihood whenever they decide it’s problematic, for whatever reason.
I can’t help but feel that the push to ban TikTok is just a tactic to force its sale to an American company. If a permanent ban does happen, it could ultimately benefit platforms like Nostr by drawing more attention to decentralized protocols. Unfortunately, it comes at the cost of people's livelihoods being taken away by bureaucrats in suits.
Great point. If someone is willing to pay you, it’s a job.
Genuine question, how many influencers on TickTock actually get paid directly by the people watching them?
Probably not much directly unless the TikToker has a link to their only fans, online store, or something similar. I’ve never had a TikTok so I’m not sure how the platform works. But if I had to guess they get some shared ad revenue like YouTube. I might be completely wrong BTW. Pure speculation.
Or they’re some government funded influencer like Harry Sisson.
I disagree. A bitcoin standard eliminates unproductive jobs.
Influencers may still exist, but not as a necessity or as a way to earn bitcoin.
To be clear, I believe people will be working only productive jobs that advance humanity, while working a smaller percentage of their life than their parents.
How do you influence others when they’re working 20 hours a week and their life only improves?
I don’t disagree. Under a Bitcoin standard, as you said, only productive jobs with real value will exist. That’s what I mean when I say, “we can debate the merits of what qualifies as a fiat job.” Most influencers are indeed fiat influencers and would naturally disappear under a Bitcoin standard.
That said, some will remain. We already see examples of this on Nostr. I’d consider nostr:nprofile1qqsw34n9r8jrkys54350nu4ah3pcd4q6ce4jp3dzvzumqsgz0pq8f6gppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qywhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctv9uq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd4hk6tcx3c460 a Nostr influencer—they curate content and publish it for us to see, and we zap them for it. If we continue to find value in what they provide, we’ll continue zapping them.
Then again, maybe we simply have different interpretations of what an influencer actually is.
Can you explain the mechanism for how bitcoin 'eliminates' unproductive jobs?
I could give you a long drawn out answer, but this chart gives you an idea how much bullshit jobs fiat has created.
For another example, how much of the financial industry will even be necessary, when the only asset worth owning is bitcoin? Nothing left to speculate on.
On a finite money standard, more and more care will be taken on where every sat is spent.
I can't believe there's a whole section of the world population living on money for influencing. Maybe I'm just ignorant or getting old. Having not been on legacy socials for a while, i dont see them. Blows my mind.
Uhhhh, just get a real job? Idk.
It's too bad there isn't a 1:1 Nostr clone ready to go because this would have been a slam dunk onboarding for hundreds of thousands if not millions of users.
Too many devs focused on Twatter-style clients last year.
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Os Tiktokers tão putos e tristes pq a rede foi banida (Acho que dos States🇺🇲).
There is no way to use VPN in this case?
Please someone tell me that this is not her actual job? Because if it is, I'm twice as excited, maybe 100 times as excited about banning tiktok!
„Without TikTok there is no me!“
Also, don't buy an expensive car until you have a stronger financial base for yourself. Even then, question yourself if you're planning to borrow to buy an expensive car.
I want to feel empathy for this woman. I want to be a good person and feel for the plight of people in pain. But no matter how deep I dig I find within myself zero fucks for her plight.
Slave mentality. Gilded cage.
The minute you depend on traditional social media apps to survive it will always backfire, they are designed to exploit the user. Even if it changes ownership it's still a traditional social media app. If you're not paying for it, if it's not encrypted or it's not decentralized - it's quack.
The TikTok ban is yet another legacy of Trump 1.0. It's almost certainly a violation of the first amendment. It's deeply disturbing that Biden progressed it, and that Trump 2.0 will probably continue it.