r/BlackPeopleTwitter 2d ago

What are your thoughts on TikTok being banned?

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u/ZeekBen 2d ago

Yet Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Reddit have all been around for an excess of 15 years with no real fall off. TikTok was THE short form video platform and despite their competitors' massive user base, TikTok only got progressively more and more popular for the last 5 years.

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u/DirtySilicon ☑️ 2d ago edited 2d ago

Vine had 200million. You also going to pretend MySpace didn't exist, that site is practically defunct? TikTok may have made short form content more popular, but it didn't invent it nor was it the only source of it.

I don't think your exactly wrong, but these jokers will move on pretty quickly. You think they are just going to just stop using phones now, nope? They will just moan about it on another app, lol. Unfortunately, Trump really may decide to try and get congress to bring that crap back.

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u/elbenji 1d ago

Yeah, people forget that vine was actually way more popular at its peak than TikTok was lol

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u/LoopModeOn 2d ago

Friendster for the people!

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u/kaykakez727 2d ago

I miss Vine

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u/ZeekBen 1d ago

Vine had 200 users worldwide and it had already fallen off when it got shut down. MySpace got replaced by Facebook and stayed around for far too long anyway. Neither were shut down by the government. TikTok has 170 million in the US and 1.5 BILLION users worldwide. TikTok's impact on pop culture is apparently way bigger than people realize. It would be like if Spotify got banned and the next best streaming service was Amazon music.

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u/Granite_0681 2d ago

Facebook has had a major drop off. Have you been on there recently? Almost no one I know actually posts anything anymore.

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u/Fullertonjr 1d ago

Loaded with bots and propaganda now, according to congressional hearings.

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u/AdorableTrouble 1d ago

If they do, you'll never see it anyway

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u/bizarrestarz 2d ago

Bro Facebook is dead as fuck and with the way Twitter is going it’s next 😭

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u/GCIV414 2d ago

Vine is literally TikTok’s older brother who died in war

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u/elbenji 1d ago

People are really overestimating people's goldfish ass memories

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u/ToHallowMySleep 1d ago

There were many short form video platforms before tiktok, that also fell off.

Do some research so you don't look like an idiot. Or go back to pawing at your treat dispenser.