Privacy concerns aside, it really is a wonderful nexus of humans.
Never heard anyone say that about TikTok, ever. Even if true, the amound of bullshit and disgust you have to endure to find one good video isn't worth it.
I can now get pretty much 80% videos from creators I enjoy and the variety of that content is amazing. Funny rap, followed by serious rap, followed by a professional chef critiquing the creation of a dish, followed by a SNL skit, followed by a Ryan Reynolds skit and on and on.
What irks me with these sort of uncritical apologists is how they see it as second coming of Jesus, when all I ever seen praised about tiktok keeps me hard in 'meh' category. I am sure its addictive as I see it clearly in other's people kids, but so is heroin and I feel 0 urge to get hooked on it nor make it available for my small children.
Life, and its ultimate quality and beauty is something completely, utterly different thing. It never came, comes or ever will come off the screen.
YouTube's discoverability is abysmal, so it's really not comparable. I use YouTube every day and have not had it recommend to me a new channel I'm interested in... a year? When I refresh my homepage, nearly one half of the videos stay the same. I've already seen 5 of them.
> I am sure its addictive as I see it clearly in other's people kids, but so is heroin
Well, I'm not praising its addictiveness, right? I'm praising the people that post on it.
TikTok is essentially Chinese spyware, and the quality of its algorithm is terrifying. But that's really it – it's just a good content platform, and its scale means its attracted great content. Ascribing all these silly qualities to it, like being in opposition to life, and similar to heroin, is hyperbole to the extreme.