01-19-2025, 08:25 AM
(02-21-2024, 01:45 AM)Mister Obvious Wrote: It randomly occurred to me today that TikTok Live (specifically) is just straight up money laundering.
Certain people get approved to be big on there, then they have a crew that orbits them and they exchange gifts (that have actual monetary value) back and forth...
I think the audience is mostly bots with a few real people peppered in.
It's money laundering plain and simple, it is about absolutely nothing else and serves no other purpose.
TikTok takes its cut for facilitating the platform and the means to launder the money.
Can't imagine the truth won't come out about it at some point.
They put an htaccess style lock on the site for American IPs today... it'll probably re-open around the 21-23rd, so people will only go without their precious "app" for 3 or 4 days. Oh the horror.
It's just an acquisition. Hopefully whoever buys it will lift every shadowban ever put in place, because TikTok is BY FUCKING FAR the WORST platform for free speech that I've ever seen.
It's a shithole... maybe they'll make improvements to it, but I doubt it. Either way, after Trump reinstates TikTok, he'll become a hero to all of the fruit fly attention spanned doom-scrollers who waste their lives on it.
