I don't use tiktok or fb, curious if you are pro or con? I'm just out of the loop.

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I'm not on Tiktok but I am impressed at this level of skill at working the system. 🤩

Gm 🌞 just an observation on the subtle workings of TikTok content moderation aka Why We Don’t Talk About Fight Club…

If you hate TikTok just scroll on…

Certain words on TikTok - whether spoken or written in the comments - are almost definitely bot-bait. This is why I very rarely drop any full govt names while speaking - we call em Donny, ‘Lonny, Joey, Benny, Barry, Georgie, Billy, etc - or use initials like Johnny FK. Or in the case of Luigi - calling him Lou. The reason I don’t like attracting bots is bc using the comments they can get me flagged for community violations (ie inciting hateful speech.)

But there are two additional layers of automatic content moderation. The first one is called “folded comments” which is an anti-bullying filter, and the second one is called “filtered comments” and it’s designed to catch bots or people with bot like behavior (aka repeating the same keywords continuously across multiple videos).

So now because the spooks have figured out that they will get flagged for the filtered comments if they directly say the keywords that bait the bots, they’ve taken up playing dumb and saying “can someone spell this out for me” hoping that some unsuspecting chatty know-it-all will put the bait out for them.

Not on my watch, but honestly the strategy is clever. Keep ya head on a swivel, folks, and don’t talk about fight club. Discretion is the better part of valor. Lol.

I asked ChatGPT if it could make me a vision board, and I’m not gonna lie I’m a little impressed for a v1… 🤣

Good morning 🤗 what are you having for “breaking the fast”?

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My sibling watched it happen in real time during the plandemic. Even had to threaten a divorce if they started surgically mutilating their body. That stopped the progression and got them off tik tok. Even to this day my sibling hopes that is is just a fad. So they play along placating to their brainwashed ego. Hoping for one day that the person they married finally wakes up.

Listen I do not care how lucrative tik tok is.

That site turned my siblings beautiful partner into a brainwashed troon. No amount of money is worth the risk of ever stepping foot there. Not even for a whole bitcoin.

I'm sure billions of dollars flow through tiktok directly and indirectly and there's a subset of the users making regular income the problem with recreating it is who is going to pay the capex?

Creators on TikTok aren't driving enough volume where the revenue share TikTok keeps covers all the server costs and hosting costs, Their model only continues on because they a CCP subsidised entity, and still has other business interests driving their revenue like Douyin and Toutiao, and some B2B services which is where most of its revenue

Since they're not publicly listed we can only go on what data they provide

Now you can argue well Meta has the same business, in Reels and Google has it in YouTube shorts, they've been growing formats mostly driven by Tiktok Reposting but both platforms have confirmed that this is a loss leader for them

Now if a company like Meta and Google with monopolies in their niche and a high margin ad business already in play and adding this feature to their ecosystem still saying its a losing medium what hope would their be for a ecosystem like nostr to replicate this?

Every time I talk about TikTok on here I get negative replies about how “nobody on Nostr cares about TikTok” 🙄 but I agree with this OP - most folks have no idea how lucrative TikTok is. I’ve made thousands of dollars on there this year alone using their various monetization streams, with the shop feature being my biggest hustle (and I only make one ad a week for products I already had in my home). There are folks on there making 3-4 ads per day and banking 5-6 figures per month!

In my opinion there’s a confluence of reasons TikTok is successful but first is viral potential - which essentially is driven by their social search engine style algorithm (aka what you search for is what you see in suggested feed/FYP based on key words both spoken and written with the post). Second is ease of use and features that support content creators like green screen capability, live-streaming, filters, audio sharing, music suggestions, etc.

Then last but certainly not least is monetization potential - they’ve got the creator program which pays opted-in creators for every 1k “qualified views” (my least fav program bc they’re a little shady on this haha), the shop “showcase” with affiliate sales commissions from 5-25%, the sellers shop (for businesses), subscriptions offerings like Patreon with tiers, and livestream gift receiving (like twitch), and ways to connect directly with brands for sponsored posts. It’s a lot going on over there.

If we could recreate it as web3, creators would be all about it because the worst parts of tiktok are the censoring (people with millions of followers having to say “Dior Bags” instead of “drones” when talking about recent NJ events or they get stuck at 200 views for example) and the lack of self custody of the content as well as the audience/community that we’ve grown there.

Anyway just food for thought, nerd edition. Thanks for coming to my ted talk. nostr:note1j25xtgrn3uz5nqywfxrz275s94c3swraehshhyglnzc377fr0tesjxgl6p