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TikTok’s main strength is that it’s newer and its algorithm is more aggressive, which means it has gone through less of this kind of scrutiny and it will be able to speed through more cultural churn in the meantime. Capital incentivizes the acceleration of the speed at which people pick up and drop cultural trends. It’s fast fashion, but for everything.
Mercury Stardust and Jory (aka alluringskull) just raised $1.6 million for trans healthcare a few days ago. Social media is good at fund raisers and it used to be good for event promotion. It’s not about the tech, just about the filters that a company goes through as they face public pressure from corporate-owned media. Old media wants YouTube to push SNL skits on the front page. Finance capital wants OnlyFans to cool it on the humanization of sex workers. Advertisers wants Facebook to be a little less mask off with enabling white supremacists because it’s fucking up their branding.
TikTok’s main strength is that it’s newer and its algorithm is more aggressive, which means it has gone through less of this kind of scrutiny and it will be able to speed through more cultural churn in the meantime. Capital incentivizes the acceleration of the speed at which people pick up and drop cultural trends. It’s fast fashion, but for everything.