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View submission: Anyone else not ever use TikTok whatsoever?
God I miss good personal blog posts and text based content. Why does everything have to be a video? Text is so much easier to consume. Video is 90% filler.
/Millennial rant over
Comment by sonicenvy at 20/01/2025 at 04:08 UTC
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SOOOO true. Similarly I hate when people have twitter threads that are like 10+ tweets long. Just get a blog. There are lots of places where you can make one for free, and use twitter to share a link to it. Get a medium or a substack or something idk.
Comment by Kandiru at 20/01/2025 at 01:55 UTC
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Facebook came and replaced everyone's blogs with pages. Google stopped supporting RSS and Google Reader so people moved away from cultivating their own internet feed and started using Facebook's instead.
Then TikTok realised that if you go for pure video you don't click away to external sites. Those eyeballs are yours entirely!
Comment by NotElizaHenry at 20/01/2025 at 03:27 UTC
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The thing I appreciate about TikTok is the lack of filler, at least compared to YouTube. Searching for “how to ___” on TikTok is a million times more likely to get you that information within a few minutes. TikTok videos only need to be a minute long to make the creator money, whereas YouTube videos need to be more like eight minutes. If your question can be answered in less than five minutes, TikTok is great.
Comment by Stierscheisse at 20/01/2025 at 08:22 UTC
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I prefer checking dozens of text page search results about a tutorial or problem than watching a single video about it.