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TikTok Remix Culture

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327 points demail | 2 comments | 15 May 21 00:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.608s | source
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dimmke ◴[15 May 21 01:27 UTC] No.27161442[source]▶
TikTok really is incredible. I don't do much in the way of social media, but it's better than any other big app I've ever used.

The other really cool use I've seen of this style of stitching is emergent songs. Here's an example: https://www.tiktok.com/@patwhoisnice/video/69158104300531089...

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dimmke ◴[15 May 21 01:36 UTC] No.27161492[source]▶
Also, it's the first social platform I've seen that has solved the new user growth problem - every user's first few videos are guaranteed hundreds of views no matter what. So good content naturally rises without having to be spammy/promote itself. Compare that to something like Twitch where growing a stream to even getting 30 regular viewers can take years of grinding and a ton of hustle.

The average follower count for even just a regular user who has maybe 1-2 good videos can be in the low thousands.

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1. est ◴[15 May 21 03:18 UTC] No.27162017[source]▶
> I've seen that has solved the new user growth problem

There's always a cost, established celebs have trouble keeping up their fame. There's always some big players quit Douyin (Chinese version of Tiktok) after burn out. No one rules Tiktok forever (which is a good thing for consumers)

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2. draw_down ◴[15 May 21 05:09 UTC] No.27162578[source]▶
That’s not a cost for Tiktok though, rather the opposite. They just need content to keep going, they don’t need to make individual creators rich necessarily. From their perspective the more control they have over who is popular, the better.

It could become a problem for them if another app offered creators a better deal, but such an app still has network effects to contend with (you can offer creators a better deal but if the viewers don’t follow them it won’t work).