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Re:TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging by rvz on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:43AM (#33191676)
Sounds like a theatrical live streamed griftopia with TikTok being the middle person at the top of the pyramid scheme dictating who gets paid or not and even if you, they keep 70% and you take the rest with taxes and other fees.

As long as the algorithm glues many of its users to their screens as much as possible with the money coming in, the grifting show must go on.

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Re:TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging by etblg on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:57AM (#33191876)
Yep. It's like an advanced version of Twitch, with the begging for subs replaced with stickers, the payout being different, and the pretense of playing games or building a community cut out because it's based off of the recommendation algorithm and virality instead.
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