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TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagram

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298 points elorant | 2 comments | 19 Nov 19 14:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.559s | source
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BoumTAC ◴[19 Nov 19 14:59 UTC] No.21573431[source]▶
Can you find interesting video(non funny) on tik tok ?

For example if your interested in bike, can you find cool bike related stuff ? Or is it just some people doing funny thing with some music on it ?

I tried it a few months ago and found only funny videos.

It's cool but it's not what's going to create a account on it.

I like Instagram or YouTube because I can follow thing I'm interesting in.

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afiori ◴[19 Nov 19 15:13 UTC] No.21573610[source]▶
My impression is that it is a quick, simple, but extremely effective medium for artistic expression.

In a sense it is very pure; it is not about anything specific and, more importantly, it is not about showing a fake, happy, successful version of yourself.

While I am too old to participate in it, as a medium it looks more healthy in term of living with your online persona (compared to insta-models and travel vlogging).

> It's cool but it's not what's going to create a account on it.

The reason to create an account would be not to watch videos but to make videos. In that tiktok feels a bit like a teenager version of a twitter, youtube chimera.

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1. dna_polymerase ◴[19 Nov 19 16:40 UTC] No.21574935[source]▶
> [..] as a medium it looks more healthy in term of living with your online persona (compared to insta-models and travel vlogging).

I think that is the core to its success (and was for Vine). Instagram became a platform for people to promote themselves or some product and people are fully aware of that nowadays.

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2. jzymbaluk ◴[19 Nov 19 20:33 UTC] No.21577953[source]▶
In my own, very subjective, experience. It seems more people are "real" on Tik Tok. I just opened up the app, and the second video I saw, was a young woman talking about her Alopecia (an auto-immune disease that causes hair loss). I've seen similar videos about Scoliosis and Autism and lots of other issues people face. There are also a lot of queer creators on Tik Tok (though the company has had ongoing issues with removing queer content).

Tik Tok isn't free from toxic behavior or those problems with insta-models and travel vloggers by any means, but my impression has been that it's a surprisingly friendly and welcoming community, especially compared to a lot of other social networks