TikTok is addictive in every category. People are addicted to it just like people are addicted to other mediums like books, radio, and tv. Creators are also addicted to creating for it manipulated by incentives and sponsorship opportunities. It is a borderline technological narcotic.
To be human is to be addicted to something. We are addicted to the many "wants" in our lives being sold through these 15s-3 minute videos.
> You may as well write a blog post saying "TV is addictive and it's dying because of commercials"
When the going gets tough, the tough goes shopping.
There's actually a few books on this! i.e. consumerism and advertising
Four arguments for the elimination of television by Jerry Mander
Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman
The shallows by Nicolas Carr
And the classic, brave new world by Aldous Huxley
YouTube will proceed to show that content down your throat and if you are like most people you will let it. It will make your experience miserable though.
All I get is Family Guy, sigma grindset nonsense, and military stuff. I hate all of those.
Life is better, now. I highly recommend it. Your phone doesn't need a browser.
There is no Newpipe on the Play store, it breaks the T&S of the play store.
Here is the official website for Newpipe https://newpipe.net/
Seriously, NewPipe is what all apps should aim to be like.
There is no Newpipe on the Play store, it breaks the T&S of the play store.
Here is the official website for Newpipe https://newpipe.net/
I think TikTok is winning because their objective algorithm optimizes for a different outcome.
Facebook and YouTube optimize for time spent on the site. Youtube famously cut ad revenue for content that is watched for fewer than 10 minutes. They both make decisions based on what will increase time spent on the site, thinking that's the best way to sell ads.
TikTok optimizes for content that people love by giving the most reach to items that commenters buy gifts for. This has the side effect of making content that consumers really connect with get paid the most. There is a big difference between what people love and what makes people spend a lot of their time.
Tiktok optimizes for similar metrics. There's no difference there. The main difference is that they are more focused and have been doing short form video from the ground up.
Sometimes you don't want long form content.
clearly there's more to it than "it's simply video first"
snapchat isn't the same
they both had implementation differences and primarily execution differences that had little to do with their platform, and more so finances
its not just video, its video+algorithm, its video+algorithm+content-subsidies
a lot of popular content creators on TikTok are still from the vine days, getting paid a lot more directly by the platforms now, as well as from whatever they can monetize on and off the platform.
Bytedance (TikTok) is willing to throw a lot of money at this, and they've been extremely high on compensation for engineers for years before TikTok reached critical mass.
vine was literally killed by twitter.
Notice I didn't use the word "algorithm" or "social"? These takes are tired and naive, TikTok isn't addictive in any operationally useful sense of the word, people just like it and use it. You may as well write a blog post saying "TV is addictive and it's dying because of commercials". It's just not an accurate conceptualization if the landscape.