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Re:Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day ... by Beltalowda on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:32AM (#33318035)
I didn't even check the source of those numbers; it was just the first thing that came up in a very quick search. It doesn't really matter: even with 500 million or 100 million you've got the same "a small percentage of a very large group can cause a lot of havoc"-effect. You see the same if you drive to work: you can easily encounter over a 100 of other drivers, and only a very small percentage of them can give the perception that "people are such bad drivers" when in fact it's just the 1% of the 100 people you encountered on that trip.

I find it both depressing and comforting; it's comforting to know most people aren't that bad, and it's depressing that such a small group of assholes can fuck it all up.

Re:Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day ... by morsch on Monday October 24, 2022 @11:48AM (#33318280)
You might be off by another factor of 100 because most of those "active users" just consume stuff and maybe add a comment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule

Re:Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-a-Day ... by noahtallen on Monday October 24, 2022 @04:01PM (#33321801)
It doesn’t even matter — going back to the car example, say you drive near 1-2 thousand cars on an hour drive, if you have 2-3 scary experiences, that makes you think “drivers here suck!” So a sample size of like .1% makes you think a problem applies to 50% of drivers.

If I watch TikTok for an hour a day for a week, and I watch 4 videos/minute on average, I’ll watch over 1500 videos a week. If only one or two of those are VERY traumatizing (e.g. showing death), I’d think TikTok has a big moderation problem. That’s an ultra-low number of users making it seem like there is a huge issue

Disclaimer: I don’t have TikTok