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		akhilcacharya on Nov 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TikTok hits 1.5B downloads, outperforming Instagra... I’ve been a user for a year now. It used to be that people watched it for the bad content - then intentionally bad content. The biggest TikTok compilations were “TikTok cringe”. But now...the content is actually good!

xiphias2 on Nov 19, 2019 | [–]

Sounds like youtube. It took years for youtube to get from cat video quality to scientific / conference videos that often are better than books / text by the name people.

I still don’t believe I would switch :)

koolhead17 on Nov 19, 2019 | [–]

TikTok is a soft porn dosage for newer/emerging internet users.

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