• @CosmoNova
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    6 hours ago

    I think those „success stories“ were always at least a little fabricated by the algorithm that somewhat randomly pushed a selected few lucky users immensely just to show the rest how you can become a media sensation overnight. It gives the platform free publicity as opposed to distributing visibility more evenly. Besides the ad revenue on TikTok is almost non existent even compared to Youtube. It was never a platform that you could realistically become successful with even if you got views.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 hours ago

      It literally has more registered users than there were registered for the US presidential election

    • @[email protected]OP
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      15 hours ago

      Besides the ad revenue on TikTok is almost non existent even compared to Youtube. It was never a platform that you could realistically become successful with even if you got views.

      If TikTok was widely known for being bad for making money then maybe it pulled some people who didn’t care about money like on old YouTube.