Sure. How do you think I’ve been watching it to begin with?
But ffs, why is it so hard for Apple to figure out how to get those numbers up? Every other company knows how to bundle their shitty products. You’d think they would know how to bundle something halfway decent.
Tiktok’s user base is quite large
875 million to over 950 million daily active users (DAU) globally as of Jan 2026.
It is a shame people don’t choose better alternatives though.
TikTok was the better alternative. That’s half the joke. As soon as it caught on, the plutocrats stepped in and seized control
Not unlike how Facebook bought out and gutted Instagram or JP Morgan took over Reddit and cleaned out all the lefties before taking it public.
That’s before you get into the marketing budget that social media needs to build the kind of massive userbase you’re asking for.
How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely
In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug “The Greaseman” Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn’t know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.
The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate’m!!!
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal in December, Trump said within a year he wants interest rates to be “1% and maybe lower than that.”
So you’re not far off.
They’ve got a bunch of genuinely good content, which is a bit ironic given their dismal subscription numbers.
Apple TV runs circles around Netflix, HBO, and Hulu. But they’ve got a meager 3% of the streaming market share. It’s infuriating.
So we’ve confirmed exactly one person has seen the movie.
Dropping the rate a quarter point isn’t going to produce run away inflation.
But climate change drying up the Colorado River and decimating the US West’s agricultural industry might.
Love to demolish 30 years of accrued institutional knowledge to save a few bucks at a multi-trillion dollar company.
There’s a big river by the same name, if that helps.
It’s so funny to see this pushed out as a marketing campaign for DuckDuckGo AI and it totally flopped.
it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control
TikTok was controlled by a private company based out of Singapore, with investments from a host of international funds including both the US and China.
The “China is controlling our internet” narrative was always bullshit fear-mongering, fully disjoined from the actual business structure. What TikTok enjoyed that Facebook and YouTube and Reddit did not was a sufficient distance from US policymakers such that TikTok’s policies weren’t dictated by Western oligarchs.
not bringing it under US billionaires specifically
That’s exactly what Biden (and then Trump)'s forced sale intended. Bring the US branch of TikTok under American control by awarding it to exclusively American financial interests.
Adverse selection. The folks that stick around are going to be the meanest, dumbest, and most cynical
I care. It’s nice to know they’re miserable.
Puppy Bowl but it’s all feral German Shepherds? No, that might actually be entertaining.
It’s probably just “We Are Charlie Kirk” on a loop for fifteen minutes
Gavin Newsom was enthusiastically in favor of forcing the sale of TikTok to US-aligned billionaires under Joe Biden.
Wonder what changed.
But so much of the content is uncreative.
Enshittification, baby. Once people know where the feed bar is, they just keep slapping it until pellets stop falling out. The Algorithm rewards imitation, not invention.
A lot of these services really hinge on a tight-knit community of active content producers who fuel engagement and reap some kind of dividend on the back end.
Loops is a technology but it’s not much of a business. The company is literally run by just two guys. They’re not going to bring on prolific content producers without a much more aggressive marketing strategy.
We’ve further mechanized the process of sales and marketing in an industry that we’ve been at the forefront of since the turn of the 20th century.
Modern anti-AI guys would have been eating up Adbusters 'zines 30 years ago.
So much of the modern political landscape is just suburban white people waking up and realizing they aren’t exempt from the police state that’s been harassing everyone else since the nation’s founding.
Admittedly, this is how you get class consciousness. So it’s not bad, per say. Just a bit ironic that Trump’s War On Woke is radicalizing entire municipalities at a breakneck pace.
Plenty of 3rd spaces exist in Texas. You just have to pay to play. The hyper-capitalist dream is alive in the Lone Star State.
I gotta wonder how much of the decline of alcoholism in the subsequent generations boils down to affordability.
Gym memberships are way cheaper than bar tabs.