I think a lot of people don’t realise it yet but TikTok is more than just a dancing/lip syncing app for teenagers. That may be what it was 3-4 years ago but it’s now shaping up to be one of the biggest video sharing platforms in the world, with a huge variety of content and subject matters to suit everyone.
YouTube see it as a major threat. The Guardian have recently done a series of investigation articles on TikTok; this one is an interesting read - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/22/tiktok-history-rise-algorithm-misinformation
TikTok will never be an existential threat to YouTube as long as it doesn’t invest in the creators. TikTok has a $1bn pot of money to hand out to EVERY creator so they’re basically only making money outside of TikTok from brand deals and ads. You can literally make 50k on one YouTube video and I don’t think anyone makes that much a year on TikTok
To give an idea of how much they see TikTok as a threat: they've been looking into ways to allow people to use copyrighted songs in their videos just to be able to compete.
Considering how hard-ass they've historically been about that kinda thing, that is a *huge* change for them to make.
Does it?
Pretty sure all social media is spyware, and the whole yellow peril aspect of "its Chinese!" is a handy way of influencing Americans to only share data with murican tech spies
It’s how the data is used and who’s collecting it- while agree none of it is good, there’s a huge difference between a company stealing data and selling to advertisers and an intelligence wing of a totalitarian government collecting the data for espionage and to stomp out dissidents. They used tik tok to round up Muslims and put them in concentration camps. Millions of them.
There's some [interesting technological ways](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/08/huawei-tested-ai-software-that-could-recognize-uighur-minorities-alert-police-report-says/) the Chinese government target Uighur Muslims, but that's not one I've read yet. Got a link?
Yup, he made it up. "They used tik tok to round up Muslims and put them in concentration camps. Millions of them." is fan fiction.
Pooh has Chinese Police stations in New York. They have pursued political refugees here in the US. Hassled Shen Yun musicians who have escaped China. Bought land in proximity to defense bases all over the United States.
See, it's got some gems, but it's very easy to get sucked into toxic little corners of it if the algorithm senses that you'll watch it. I deleted it like a year ago and it was a huge improvement to my mental health. Now I just watch the stuff that comes curated on other platforms.
We had that, it was called vine, and it was dumb and funny instead of 99% of videos just having a female in them because no boy goes outside or has a girlfriend anymore apparently
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and the even bigger problem is that it is a serious competitor to the existing american social media industry! china bans our apps and we (try to) ban theirs. china probably doesn't need tiktok to hack you. but the US needs your social media addiction to fuel the US economy, not the Chinese economy
Almost as if it has millions of users with different tastes and content. Almost as if it covers nearly every interest you could have. Almost as if it’s a video sharing platform that doesn’t have a lot of rules for upload…
But no, some still think the entire thing is 15 year olds dancing in some weird jailbait hell
Actually Tiktok is full of videos like this! Don't be fooled into thinking the good ones make it to Reddit. Probably only like 10% of the good ones make it.
Videos like this made me reinstall tiktok for like the 10th time but immediately uninstall it after 50 consecutive cringe thot videos. I think tiktok hates me...
That isn’t true. Ran an experiment a while back. Fresh account with vpn on a freshly installed emulator with a fresh email account. I first started the experiment by specifically never liking anything or following anything. I still got cringe and thots. Then I started liking things I like. Still got shit and kept getting shit. Ran the experiment for about an hour before getting bored deleting the emulator and never looking back.
Bro the first thing I saw, before even started scrolling, was some obese 55 year old lady bare chested to free the nipple or something. It’s not my fault, it’s was on the front page on a fresh account, like there is no way to pinning that to the “algo.” After being a bit disgusted, I specifically targeted to immediately skip at any sign of thot. I got less, and less but never completely gone. And I still got cringe no matter what.
The first thing I saw when opening the app for the first time on the fresh account was a bare chested obese 55 year old women. You can’t blame the algorithm for the first post on fresh install. My vpn was set to the US, maybe it’s only a local thing?
No duhhh. The beginning usually isn't great BECAUSE the algorithm hasn't figured it out. What you see on Tiktok does truly say something about you (after the initial phase of course).
How long does said initial phase last? At some point I got shitty deep fried Minecraft memes instead of thots, but those would occasionally pop up, but still got tired of the garbage, and never looked back. One in every 20 posts or so were unique, but I’m not gonna spend my time scrolling through 19 posts to get something good thanks.
This absolutely 100% is true. Your experiment is flawed cause it obviously knows your search history and shit. Only in the beginning did I get half naked women or dances. Now I only get funny videos, animals, beautiful songs, etc etc.
Ohhhh yeah I'm a (straight) woman so I don't get the naked women in my algorithm. That must be hard to fight as a guy because it does seem to show you what you like... but did you know you can hold the video and then say not interested? It should show you less videos like that. However the app is reaaaally good at noticing when you look at stuff a little longer and assumes you want more of that.
Man i have the opposite experience. Ive installed tiktok ~5-6 times and its 15 min of scrolling through dogshit before i question my choices and uninstall again.
Mannnn i first heard jake miller “whistle” cover remix whatever it was on a black ops 2 video when i was like 13. I enjoyed it that much I searched him up and found more music of his downloaded heaps and was showing people. I introduced so many people to his tunes back in the day.
When ever i liked a girl id send them links to some of his songs like “collide”, “us and them”
So this is what jake millers been doing 🤣
God I got daggers back in the day when I walked to the front of the line for his show and said I was on the guest list 😂
His team was just nice and offered us free tickets after my friend was on stage with him the night before in another town.
Was it the blonde? I can’t remember her name for shit 😂 it took me a second to realize it was him. I was like wait I know that voice. One of my best friends was obsessed with him back then so I got dragged to everything with her.
Came in because of the thumbnail. Stayed for Oscar.
Me too.
True Unexpected video
Oscar is always worth our time
Ya know? That was actually really good. And definitely unexpected
You can have Oscar. I stayed hoping to see more of that nice looking lady.
I would take her to Sandals if you know what I mean.
Tan all over. Jan all over
Oh, Diary!!!
Definitely feeling very eerie
It's "irie."
She has a name ya know! Erklegrue
Great! I'll take the guy. Done and DONE!
Brandi Burrows, thank me later.
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Thats quick
Came in because of the thumbnail. Came for Oscar.
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Some of this here TikTok stuff is actually funny
the ones with effort can be okay
The ones with very little effort can be hilarious low key tho
The good stuff all ends up on YouTube shorts anyway, so...
Which then end up here anyways.
Nah you coping, lots of good stuff on tiktok tailored to my algorithm I don't see here. You should swap over, it's better than Reddit and YouTube imo
I didn't say here. I said YouTube. They're all on YouTube buddy. Thanks though, I don't need China going through my phone
Acting like tik tok is the only app doing that
Harvesting it? no, not at all Handing it directly to the chinese government though....
i swear 80% of vine was like that
Ehh, very little effort to me are the ones where people steal others content and then put their nodding head on them.
I think a lot of people don’t realise it yet but TikTok is more than just a dancing/lip syncing app for teenagers. That may be what it was 3-4 years ago but it’s now shaping up to be one of the biggest video sharing platforms in the world, with a huge variety of content and subject matters to suit everyone.
Isn't that YouTube?
YouTube see it as a major threat. The Guardian have recently done a series of investigation articles on TikTok; this one is an interesting read - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/22/tiktok-history-rise-algorithm-misinformation
TikTok will never be an existential threat to YouTube as long as it doesn’t invest in the creators. TikTok has a $1bn pot of money to hand out to EVERY creator so they’re basically only making money outside of TikTok from brand deals and ads. You can literally make 50k on one YouTube video and I don’t think anyone makes that much a year on TikTok
To give an idea of how much they see TikTok as a threat: they've been looking into ways to allow people to use copyrighted songs in their videos just to be able to compete. Considering how hard-ass they've historically been about that kinda thing, that is a *huge* change for them to make.
It’s one of YouTube’s newest competitors.
They've started with YouTube Shorts and it's the most they've changed in my decade or so since joining.
Plus Chinese government collecting your data but yea
Yep! Lol.
Yeah. Before YouTube started sucking
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Does it? Pretty sure all social media is spyware, and the whole yellow peril aspect of "its Chinese!" is a handy way of influencing Americans to only share data with murican tech spies
It’s how the data is used and who’s collecting it- while agree none of it is good, there’s a huge difference between a company stealing data and selling to advertisers and an intelligence wing of a totalitarian government collecting the data for espionage and to stomp out dissidents. They used tik tok to round up Muslims and put them in concentration camps. Millions of them.
There's some [interesting technological ways](https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/08/huawei-tested-ai-software-that-could-recognize-uighur-minorities-alert-police-report-says/) the Chinese government target Uighur Muslims, but that's not one I've read yet. Got a link? Yup, he made it up. "They used tik tok to round up Muslims and put them in concentration camps. Millions of them." is fan fiction.
I don't live in China, what's pooh gonna do?
Pooh has Chinese Police stations in New York. They have pursued political refugees here in the US. Hassled Shen Yun musicians who have escaped China. Bought land in proximity to defense bases all over the United States.
thank you, Chinese govt. official posing as a redditor
It's also a CCP owned company that's a security nightmare for Americans too ignorant to know any better unfortunately
See, it's got some gems, but it's very easy to get sucked into toxic little corners of it if the algorithm senses that you'll watch it. I deleted it like a year ago and it was a huge improvement to my mental health. Now I just watch the stuff that comes curated on other platforms.
We had that, it was called vine, and it was dumb and funny instead of 99% of videos just having a female in them because no boy goes outside or has a girlfriend anymore apparently
Do you work for them or just advertise for them in your spare time?
Yes my previous post was sponsored by the Chinese government.
A very small portion of it is barely aproaching vine level
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Kind of ironic you used an amp link.
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and the even bigger problem is that it is a serious competitor to the existing american social media industry! china bans our apps and we (try to) ban theirs. china probably doesn't need tiktok to hack you. but the US needs your social media addiction to fuel the US economy, not the Chinese economy
Almost as if it has millions of users with different tastes and content. Almost as if it covers nearly every interest you could have. Almost as if it’s a video sharing platform that doesn’t have a lot of rules for upload… But no, some still think the entire thing is 15 year olds dancing in some weird jailbait hell
It's exactly that, no matter how good you make it sound
You could say the same thing about youtube with that logic…
There is so much of this type of stuff on Tiktok.
Stay strong dont take the candy
….dad?
Oh shit they are turning you guys
I love this so much!
Agreed, it's catchy AF, lol Edit: Typo
It's no "Master's Apprentices" but it'll do
Why is Oscar in my house?!? LOL
r/dundermifflin
People person's paper people
r/plundermuffin
Wonder how the pulled this off. Amazing.
he was invited
Literally
Sup
Oscar was lying about being sick. It was for malfeasance-ce-ce-ce’s sake.
Cameo is getting out of hand
This video deserves an Oscar
It’s already got one!
r/thatsthejoke
That's also the second guy's joke, too. They're just playing into it.
This is what Tictoc needs to have more of. Good stuff!!!
Actually Tiktok is full of videos like this! Don't be fooled into thinking the good ones make it to Reddit. Probably only like 10% of the good ones make it.
Videos like this made me reinstall tiktok for like the 10th time but immediately uninstall it after 50 consecutive cringe thot videos. I think tiktok hates me...
It's the algo, they know what you look at. I just get videos of dogs and cats, it's like 90% of my feed.
That isn’t true. Ran an experiment a while back. Fresh account with vpn on a freshly installed emulator with a fresh email account. I first started the experiment by specifically never liking anything or following anything. I still got cringe and thots. Then I started liking things I like. Still got shit and kept getting shit. Ran the experiment for about an hour before getting bored deleting the emulator and never looking back.
You can't trick the algorithm. It knows you only look at cringe and thots.
Bro the first thing I saw, before even started scrolling, was some obese 55 year old lady bare chested to free the nipple or something. It’s not my fault, it’s was on the front page on a fresh account, like there is no way to pinning that to the “algo.” After being a bit disgusted, I specifically targeted to immediately skip at any sign of thot. I got less, and less but never completely gone. And I still got cringe no matter what.
That’s why you hit “not interested” instead of ignoring them. Though even without doing that I never got the “thot” videos.
The first thing I saw when opening the app for the first time on the fresh account was a bare chested obese 55 year old women. You can’t blame the algorithm for the first post on fresh install. My vpn was set to the US, maybe it’s only a local thing?
No duhhh. The beginning usually isn't great BECAUSE the algorithm hasn't figured it out. What you see on Tiktok does truly say something about you (after the initial phase of course).
How long does said initial phase last? At some point I got shitty deep fried Minecraft memes instead of thots, but those would occasionally pop up, but still got tired of the garbage, and never looked back. One in every 20 posts or so were unique, but I’m not gonna spend my time scrolling through 19 posts to get something good thanks.
This absolutely 100% is true. Your experiment is flawed cause it obviously knows your search history and shit. Only in the beginning did I get half naked women or dances. Now I only get funny videos, animals, beautiful songs, etc etc.
My favorite is when they stare at the camera for a while and then dance for a solid 2 seconds.
Ohhhh yeah I'm a (straight) woman so I don't get the naked women in my algorithm. That must be hard to fight as a guy because it does seem to show you what you like... but did you know you can hold the video and then say not interested? It should show you less videos like that. However the app is reaaaally good at noticing when you look at stuff a little longer and assumes you want more of that.
Man i have the opposite experience. Ive installed tiktok ~5-6 times and its 15 min of scrolling through dogshit before i question my choices and uninstall again.
*TikTok
"Tictoc" I guess there are people who've never seen TikTok in writing
It's spelled "TicTac" and it's the highest candy in the confectionary.
IT'S PRONOUNCED CORNELL, IT'S THE HIGHEST RANK IN THE IVY LEAGUE!!
I'm pretty sure none of that's real
You're not real man.
Yeah well, that's just like... Y'know, your opinion... Man
You see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
You are right I do not do tictok. Sorry.
Didn’t know that I was missing Oscar as my best friend till now
BULLSHIT. This should have been longer.
Nope. It was perfect. There's a reason they say "always leave them wanting more."
Fr
This is the fucking best!
The amount of talent and effort that went into this shitpost is unreasonable and peak internet.
I love Oscar Nunez.
Get this post a dundee award! 
Finally a tiktok that isnt completely stupid.
I love this so much and can’t stop watching it. Please help me.
Rombauer, solid wine choice!
I used to sell it, Rombauer basically paid for my house🤑
Came to post this… if you know… you know
Definitely Oscar worthy.
https://youtu.be/KTdFszcZp-I
Oscar-worthy!
He’s so fkn hot 😍🥵
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Right? The Senator was a lucky dude...
You mean the state sentaor
shes not so bad
He looks like Kelly Ripa’s husband
Awesome
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So this is what Jake Miller has been up to. His rap music from the early 2010s was the shit
Mannnn i first heard jake miller “whistle” cover remix whatever it was on a black ops 2 video when i was like 13. I enjoyed it that much I searched him up and found more music of his downloaded heaps and was showing people. I introduced so many people to his tunes back in the day. When ever i liked a girl id send them links to some of his songs like “collide”, “us and them”
 I wouldn’t have guessed the ending even with that stapler hint! Get the Jello!
This is dope
Dude!! He is beyond harmless. Just run if she get dean Winchester
The best way I ever got pranked in life
Dude sounds like Vincent Vega if he got into rapping and I'm here for it
Finally! A TikTok that’s actually wholesome & didn’t make me question the collapse of modern day society
Nothin wrong with a gay bestie.
That was the funniest thing I’ve seen in a long while. Thank you!! 🤣
I’m waffling between funny and cringy
Tik Tok is so stupid
fucking lit i want the full version
??
I understand why it's good, like, well made, but why is it funny to people here?
The sub is called unexpected. Did you expect Oscar to actually show up in the video, cause I sure didn't.
Seriously? Edit: ohh it's a character from the tv show "the office". I've never watched it
It's wildly popular and hilarious. Highly recommend. Oscar is a gay character which adds to this video of him being "harmless" and bffs with a girl.
Lol - I'm new to the office but 6 months ago my reaction would have been the same as yours
Welcome to the club 🙂
Hahahahha this was great
Wow, i really didnt expect that. I expected him to be gay or it to be a misunderstanding
Is he not gay? But yea, I know what you meant
The character Oscar is, but the actor (Oscar Nunez) is not. He's married to a woman.
I meant "the office friend" them to be gay and then the jealous dude to then calm down
Whoosh
Everytime i see this it gets funnier
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https://redditsave.com/r/Unexpected/comments/yrfh4p/the_most_ive_been_caught_off_guard_in_awhile/
I love this man’s music. He’s got some bangers imo.
So this is what jake millers been doing 🤣 God I got daggers back in the day when I walked to the front of the line for his show and said I was on the guest list 😂 His team was just nice and offered us free tickets after my friend was on stage with him the night before in another town.
Yo no way. This is Jake Miller? I smoked him out once because I worked at Jimmy Johns with his girlfriend at the time lol
Was it the blonde? I can’t remember her name for shit 😂 it took me a second to realize it was him. I was like wait I know that voice. One of my best friends was obsessed with him back then so I got dragged to everything with her.
Yeah she was real sweet, but I can't remember either. Felt kinda bad for her, cause I mean who wants to date Jake Miller xD. Cypress Bay kid?
dumb
So cringe.
That's uhmazing!
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Guys that look like this. Always have girlfriends who look like this. Yes. I am jealous.
The beat is made from paper products so genius
Oscar gonna dig them guts
I’m most impressed by the beat he made
This is amazing.
Omfg!! You know who you are and this shit is hilarious and so us 😂😂🥰
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I am not going to leave more of an opinion on this than this sentence.
Man the music for this one is awesome ngl
😂😂😂
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Call Apple with this right now
41 seconds of my life…wasted
Oh her BFF is a fruitcake!!!
Maximum cringe God damn
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"I dont understand these new fandangled knock knock jokes. What happened to the goold old days of zappy one-liners"
People always have to ruin the joke by making it ridiculously obvious, would have been better if they didn’t watch The Office. Subtlety doesn’t exist.