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[–] [email protected] 58 points 8 months ago

Good, run that into the ground too and be rid of it.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well, TikTok can't get any worse, right?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If this was a cartoon, now would be the time it starts raining on you while viewing TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I tried TikTok some time ago and got bored with it.

I'm the type that prefers long form content. I watch 20-240 minute videos on YouTube,

I never got into Vines or the Vines/TikTok clone thing YouTube is doing either.

So most of the crap I see from TikTok is here, on Reddit and Mastodon.

And normally only the most entertaining crap from a platform gets to other platforms and I'm not impressed by what I've seen, at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're just not the target audience. Likely too old.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

When I worked in a factory, all the old country maintenance guys and techs were on tik Tok during their breaks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah weirdly my parents (in their 60s) are getting into tiktok, reels and Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Not a chance. It's a very valuable CCP propaganda tool, they're not going to just hand it over to the literal enemy. Well it could technically happen if Kotick agrees to kneel and kiss the ring but then it wouldn't really be his company anyway.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Why do you think Kotick is "the enemy"? Kotick has already worked extensively with and supported the CCP through Blizzard. Pretty sure they're on good terms.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

It might stop the heat though if he's a US puppet to appease congress.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

As long as he buys it and Biden bans it after.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

Bobby Kotick is genuinely more evil than the current owners.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Mr. Grabby Grabby?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Please, no.