TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

Re:TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging by cyral on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:48AM (#33191760)

And no matter how many times you click "Not interested" on the livestream, you will keep getting it every so often. I also get the crying kid with cards, sleep livestream, and deformed baby one all the time.

Oh and you forgot the one where they have a calculator app open set to 999,999,998 or something and if they just get two more gifts they will see what happens when you get to one billion, but they are always so awkwardly slow and keep decrementing the number so it never reaches it.

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Re:TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging by etblg on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:52AM (#33191800)

That calculate one is a whole genre on to itself: TikToks where there's a goal the streamer is working towards to do something, but they do it so slowly that it never happens. People keep donating to see the thing happen, the streamer doesn't want the thing to happen because then the donations stop, so they only pretend like they're going to do the thing.

Like that damned guy stacking bolts in a giant column.

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Re:TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging by pjc50 on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:01PM (#33192838)

Sisyphus, but with gamification.

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