<story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spivak</author><text>Honestly, good for them. TikTok is such a breath of fresh air in the social media space -- it&amp;#x27;s bursting with raw unfiltered creativity, interactions are really genuine and I&amp;#x27;ve actually met now IRL friends on TikTok. Their recommendation engine is scary good at discovery which solves the &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know who to follow&amp;quot; problem, the ads are the least intrusive of any social media platform.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; TikTok because your hobbies don&amp;#x27;t map well to video snippets -- stuff like makeup, art, fashion, cooking, baking, dance, inde music, cosplay, interior decorating -- don&amp;#x27;t write it off. It&amp;#x27;s basically a social media paradise for women[1]. Like the early days of Tumblr but replace gifs with videos.&lt;p&gt;[1] TikTok&amp;#x27;s format lends itself to hobbies stereotypically cultivated by women. The implication doesn&amp;#x27;t go the other way; loads of guys on TikTok. It also doesn&amp;#x27;t imply that every woman will find like it; don&amp;#x27;t @ me with logical fallacies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>I guess I still just don&amp;#x27;t get it. I&amp;#x27;m always shocked at glowing recommendations of TikTok...from HN of all places! Every time it comes up here, I take a few minutes to browse the site, to see if anything changed to justify the praise, and it hasn&amp;#x27;t. The content may be more lighthearted, but over half of the random feed on the home page I just browsed is fundamentally the same &amp;quot;camera in your own face&amp;quot; narcissism amplifier as Instagram and the influencer portions of YouTube. I&amp;#x27;m not even seeing a lot of hobbies there. It&amp;#x27;s just people who are not remarkably talented, but want to be in a video, making a video of themselves. It&amp;#x27;s got the same validation-seeker signals as the rest of social media (like count, comment count, share count). I browsed for about 30 minutes this morning so I could at least be informed before I comment, and literally found nothing remarkable or interesting. No unusual musical talents or athletics. Nothing really novel or even relatable. Just 20 year-old zeros making videos about themselves. Why is this a thing?</text></comment>
<story><title>TikTok owner ByteDance sees its earnings double in 2020</title><url>https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57522368</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Spivak</author><text>Honestly, good for them. TikTok is such a breath of fresh air in the social media space -- it&amp;#x27;s bursting with raw unfiltered creativity, interactions are really genuine and I&amp;#x27;ve actually met now IRL friends on TikTok. Their recommendation engine is scary good at discovery which solves the &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t know who to follow&amp;quot; problem, the ads are the least intrusive of any social media platform.&lt;p&gt;If you don&amp;#x27;t &amp;quot;get&amp;quot; TikTok because your hobbies don&amp;#x27;t map well to video snippets -- stuff like makeup, art, fashion, cooking, baking, dance, inde music, cosplay, interior decorating -- don&amp;#x27;t write it off. It&amp;#x27;s basically a social media paradise for women[1]. Like the early days of Tumblr but replace gifs with videos.&lt;p&gt;[1] TikTok&amp;#x27;s format lends itself to hobbies stereotypically cultivated by women. The implication doesn&amp;#x27;t go the other way; loads of guys on TikTok. It also doesn&amp;#x27;t imply that every woman will find like it; don&amp;#x27;t @ me with logical fallacies.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>xvector</author><text>TikTok creators are pushing out so much incredible OC. It feels like half of the Reddit front page are just TikTok reposts (with the logo censored out, because Redditors are too cool to admit they like TikTok content.)</text></comment>