TikTok is now the most popular website

Yonnie said:
Business checking account. I received a percentage.

Yes, Re: content creator. Am I a videographer? Sort of. I'm in the process of making the transition to credible filmmaker.

The content for the dough is rather embarrassing, tbh.
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Thanks for your reply. Sorry for the interrogation but 1st posts on forums are often less than positive :( No need to be embarrassed about a mousetrap that appears to be working! Many of us are not very dialed in to the black box that is YouTube and/or social media (as you can tell be the posts). While I do not have aspirations to be a YouTube personality, I would love to know more about how to utilize the site and tools for business growth and any possible mousetraps for me or for clients. All I know is that the revenue sharing number is 55% after one exceeds 1000 subs and gets to participate in the program. Anything beyond that is inside knowledge to me.
 
Zuck ought to combine Instagram and Facebook. At the moment, it's too cumbersome of a connection. It's not as vertical as it can be.
 
the other issue for Meta is that apparently new apple privacy features have sharply curtailed facebook ad revenue
 
I used to call anyone who operated a camera a “camera fluffer “until hr had a chat with me and a couple of teamsters had a knuckle discussion behind craft service one day.
 
The FCC has recommended banning TikTok in the US on the grounds of national security concerns

https://www.axios.com/2022/11/01/int...uld-ban-tiktok

I wouldn't be too surprised if something like this happens, considering the broader context of an increasingly hawkish American attitude towards China. Recently, the Biden administration moved to restrict access to semiconductor technology and expertise, and I think that more such moves are in the works in what's being called the Great Decoupling

I literally just recommended to a client yesterday that she start a TikTok channel and post her Instagram and Youtube content there. Perhaps I spoke too soon
 
Does TikTok have any content rights management system like YouTube? Or is it another Napster at this point? Gosh, I do not think I could care any less about TikTok but it looks like it is here to stay even if the hawks want to ban it. I think it would be more productive to quietly wall off the app in the two phone operating systems to make sure data was protected than do it large scale in the public. But many want to be seen as doing something so we will probably get the latter and become more conflict oriented with China.
 
I'll have to see it to believe it...banning TikTok at this point in time would be like banning Google search.

It is a massive force in American culture and society but that's also why those security concerns exist, obv.

Would be unprecedented at this scale, AFAIK, remember.
 
Trump banned TikTok, they/ByteDance sued, Microsoft considered buying all or portions of it, Biden let it slide, nothing changed.

Until the War in Ukraine and CPC's 20th Congress. Different mentality set in among the movers and shakers at the top.
 
It's true, but with any humans since the beginning of time, many will also check in other places. [For me, one video is not the end-all on the matter, obviously.]

But TikTok is definitely a place to go for information, especially for Gen Z. Even if only as a result from natural curiosity because of how massive the platform is with so many minds. Like by default it's going to be good because it's so popular. [I like TikTok a lot but I'm forever a YouTube guy and especially a YouTube Shorts guy now.]

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One has to really understand TikTok and spend some time on it to understand this digital phenomenon.

People may say it could be a source with lots of misinformation and that's true, but so can any source be, including books - fact or fiction - that were written over thousands of years. I mean, even top professionals in industries have differing opinions on some matters, so there will also be some questioning and doubt everywhere, I think.

I didn't watch the entire video above, but TikTok's enticing structure consists of the way information is delivered. For the most part, info is packaged into very short bursts with an engaging VO. The bad, the good, the result.

Of course everything is not that simple - but I think if learning is at times simplified and streamlined and is less tedious and more engaging and not tiresome (e.g. reading a 20-page chapter on something that could mostly be explained in a 1-minute video) then it's going to naturally appeal to humanity.
 
This discussion reminds me of something that Sam Bankman-Fried said: “I would never read a book. I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that. I think, if you wrote a book, you ****ed up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.” https://lithub.com/crypto-nerd-sam-bankman-fried-who-just-lost-16-billion-would-never-read-a-book/

If you don't know who SBF is, look him up and see how his superficial approach to learning worked out for him.

There's nothing that can be said in a video that can't be grasped faster and in more detail by skimming something in writing. The only fundamental value added by imagery is in communicating the details of how something looked.

I read something similar in the NYT, that Gen Z is increasingly using Tik Tok like Google. One person was quoted as saying that the results were less biased, and there could be some truth to that. It's not that Tik Tok is devoid of bias or that its search algorithm could never become biased, but at least for the moment it seems like it's laser-focused on delivering useful results regardless of provenance. Google seems to me to have an array of political and commercial biases.
 
Problem is not everyone is decent at reading or can learn from text on paper/screen the same way they can learn from a visual brief. If I had to make an educated guess, I would guess that more of the world would prefer to learn from videos or photos with text than only from reading.

Ye recently said, "Reading is like eating Brussels sprouts". lol

Although he recently lost a lot of money, he's still worth a few billion so he's good, I guess.

There will always be a place for only text and sometimes you only want to read a little bit and not be annoyed by a visual presence and sound, but the problem with everything is and always will be money.

Businesses, products and people are constantly influenced and corrupted by money so you forever have to be skeptical about the exchange or presentation of any information and/or data.
 
ahalpert said:
There's nothing that can be said in a video that can't be grasped faster and in more detail by skimming something in writing. The only fundamental value added by imagery is in communicating the details of how something looked.
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I've been using the shirt-ironing technique shown in this video for almost a decade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK6iQj-I_0w
I haven't got the patience to read and absorb the 5000-word essay version. I mean, sure you could reduce it to a few summary sentences but in order for that short version to be useful, you'd have to already know how to do it. Those brief, smooth, slightly rotational movements away from the skilled practitioner are much easier to show than they are to explain.

Video can also give all kinds of information about authenticity - the source of information, who is actually speaking, what their attitude is to what they're saying. It might sometimes be misleading but it's still information.

And often, far from being misleading, this meta-information actually betrays the source and tells the truth by accident. Here is a dreadful propaganda video from the Hong Kong government (Don't believe the lies spread by foreign forces, rule of law is strong!), of course in the form of a catchy song.
https://coconuts.co/hongkong/news/l...song-and-music-video-about-citys-rule-of-law/

Everything about it is terrible and cringeworthy because the people who made it didn't really believe it. The fact that authenticity in human speech and movement is far more difficult to fake than authoritarian governments realise is a cause for optimism, I think. Text is much easier to control.
 
That is true, but I'm used to comparing what I learn from news broadcasts vs news articles. There's no contest. It takes twice as long to learn half as much from the broadcast, and meanwhile I'm being subconsciously effected by how I feel about the speaker and the surrounding video production. Imagery is useful ("wow, look at that collapsed Florida high rise, that's crazy!") or hearing the emotion in an interviewee's voice. But by the same token, the coverage and our reactions to it is biased in favor of visually-compelling material. If it can't be photographed, it's less likely to get coverage. If you hear that 100 million people will die 5 years earlier on average due to pollution, it's less impactful on TV than listening to one mom crying because her kid got hit by a car.

Instructional materials, yes video is great. Show me how to do something.

Newsshooter really uses every medium to its advantage. Their reviews are mostly written. The information is super detailed but I can navigate around very quickly. When they want to demonstrate or illustrate something, they embed images or video clips.

It may be faster for some people to watch rather than to read, but then they'll never get faster at reading for lack of practice, which is probably what they needed to begin with.

TikTokers are perfecting the art of super short form, but in general this is not a new debate. Keeping company with SBF and Kanye is Matilda's dad. "Theres nothing you can get from a book that you can't get from a television faster" at 4:00
 
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