TikTokers Are Getting A Harsh Reality Check | Asmongold Reacts

TikTok is done.
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[@just_a_turtle_chad]

I speak for everyone when I say no one feels bad for these TikTokers

[@stremstrem3632]

thank you for being once more the voice of the people, turtle chad

[@tlbusta6143]

🐢🤙

[@emptysoul2757]

👏🏻

[@Gelondil]

A bold claim to say you speak for everyone.

[@queenbrightwingthe3890]

@@Gelondil So you support those TikTokers ?

[@SSJ4Bass]

If Asmon had a kid they’d be too busy farming mounts for him in WoW to be on TikTok.

[@HyprHotshot]

@@xplodegg that would be epic lol

[@zzzwodder]

A kid would be too much of a bother for Asmon, the kid would probably crawl on all fours around the house ocasionally appearing on the stream background like a wild animal hissing at him for his fast food leftovers and sleep on a self built trash nest

[@x144x]

He has a couple people who farm mounts on his account

[@Natedogg1952]

*Damn good deal*

[@DMG380]

Timmy, did you do your chores? I am logging in right away, father. Please don't beat me.

[@jonnydoeson5562]

Who would have thought doing a stupid dance or shrieking at a camera over nonsense wasn’t a sustainable form of income?

[@JamTrackWorld]

So you're describing every twitch streamer out there. Same with asmond. Dude's sits in a filthy room and talks about shit. Very sustainable

[@jonnydoeson5562]

@@JamTrackWorld not when your boss is an algorithm.

[@bdubarts84]

clown world

[@Nalva-z4h]

@@JamTrackWorld The exceptions don't make the rule.

[@bongpet8399]

Some cheap brands do hire them to promote their rip off products though

[@samikazbe]

Never used TikTok, never will.

[@nsebast]

surprisingly for me tiktok videos are much more educational than instagram reels. Of course it depends on what you watch. tiktok algorithm is on crack.

[@janiutschgi]

based

[@BillClinton228]

I never understood the appeal, it might be interesting if you have the attention span or memory of a gold fish.

[@mephisto2348]

@@BillClinton228 I watch content from time to time. But it's usually stuff like, where to find X weapon or gun in whatever game I am playing. Things I want a short, quick answer to. I just never understood how you make a platform like that profitable... I'd honestly love to go back to the time of Nintendo Power and EGM.

[@hisdud3ness93]

Yeah, I am not installing that. I understand the dangers of this short content. It is designed to hijack your dopamine and keep you scrolling for hours with your brain turned off. Like once every 20 videos you see something actually interesting. I much rather choose the content I watch, see the length of a video and know the time commitment required to watch it. These Tik Tok kids just scroll through algorithm generated content 12 hours a day.

[@dreamerlotus]

You mean these people will have to get jobs that are more than filming themselves for 30 seconds? Thoughts and prayers.

[@gajiji2731]

Yeah, like filming themselves for 27 minutes instead.

[@nyos22]

Oh, the humanity!

[@flarestorm9417]

I know, right? I get wanted to make money off of what you're good at, but what utility does TikTok have? You can post full movies, documentaries, etc. on KZbin. You can hold online events, promote products, among other things through livestreaming platforms like Twitch? What does a platform based around short-form content really offer? What value does it have beyond giving you short meme videos that people do generic reaction videos for at best?

[@anannoyedpanda]

​@@gajiji2731kekw.

[@Onthebrink5]

Like asmongold or people on twitch, kick, and any other bullshit that you losers watch ad nauseam and then believe that you are in a community because you are in an echo chamber. At least they are doing something. Not seeking attention on youtube. A bunch of people that have no moral consistency.

[@sunlightsage2982]

Unfortunately for them that reality check is the only check they’re getting.

[@gingerbill128]

good one

[@kuyagab4444]

​@@gingerbill128 ayo

[@HaCh3_]

OOF

[@bobbyjoalfonso3949]

you can tell ASsmon doesn't have a daughter and prob will never have a gf lol

[@thed1taumaruvegas]

Praise the sun

[@michaelprice3040]

as addictive as 20 second videos are I find the best content within the 20+ minute videos, even up to 2 hour videos on topics I enjoy are much more fun to listen to than just endless crap.

[@guaracho1999]

Asmon said something that is VERY important even when I dont know why it happens. You can't even remember what you see on tiktok and if you do, you'll sleep over that knowledge in no time. It's weird, it's like specifically made for you to throw away your time with almost nothing to gain in return. Damn you even accelerate the decay of your phone battery... for nothing. TikTok it's made to burn your time and your brain.

[@mallangs]

Jup

[@jerowns]

i've watched Asmon try "Getting over it" for 2 hours straight... not much different than doomscrolling on tiktok

[@michaelprice3040]

@@jerowns At least getting over it had a conclusion. Doom scrolling doesn’t and never ends. Might add as well that at least you managed to dedicate your attention to one video, the worst part of doom scrolling is how nothing lasts more than a few seconds shortening attention spans.

[@IstyManame]

15-30

[@DickHammer776]

A company partially owned by the Chinese government compensates employees badly? Wow. How shocking.

[@bananaana1860]

Hey DickHammer Tiktok is owned by a Singaporean guy

[@kuroki9114]

Senator, i am Singaporean.

[@BillClinton228]

All companies in Chyna are owned by the government.

[@IJustLikeBikes]

Tiktok uploaders arent employees. They arent even contractors really.

[@daniel-bg5nq]

Nah it reflects the overinflated sense of value on the platform. They're being paid fairly

[@Mr.Glitch]

As someone who used to work for a Tiktok live agency: tiktok is trash and they don't deserve the 70% they take from gifts to creators.

[@MrAccesspro]

80% of tik tok is the same voice overs on 10 second videos. Its the fast food of social media and thats fine. We love fast food

[@Mr.Glitch]

@@MrAccesspro I worked with live streamers, so I heard their actual voices. That was slightly less soul destroying than the having to deal with those other voices. *shudder*

[@Ebb0Productions]

@@Mr.Glitch I'm glad you survived.

[@jamestomlin5525]

The fact that you worked for them~ my dude

[@Mr.Glitch]

@@jamestomlin5525 I thought I was helping streamers realise their dreams. I was very wrong. Now I just help people with all that info for free, as an unemployed person.

[@StrayFire]

without an ad blocker I would not spend a tenth of my current time on youtube. the twitch ads are what made me stop going there as regularly as I used to.

[@xanderscales0]

Congratulations

[@zukacs]

I spend enought time here that I just used vpn to buy Indian KZbin premium for 20$ for year

[@ChristinaMagma]

KZbin premium 🎉

[@hisaceinthehole3426]

​​@@ChristinaMagma you actually give youtube money for taking away peoples 1st amendment rights. _What an incredible thing to be proud about._

[@Azune783]

So you are a leech

[@saltmine]

bro if you upload a super long video i just use it the same as podcasts just a nice silence breaker since i live on my own it's just nice to have hear people in the background even if it's via youtube or spotify.

[@ExcrucioVII]

Same here! That's also mostly the audience I make my videos for.

[@fatmonkey8u]

I went my uncles for vacation and holy cow was the ads on KZbin atrocious…was thinking of kicking off a friend off my family plan so I could watch some KZbin at my uncles.

[@Cyndaquil790]

I cant believe asmongold insulted TikTok and killed my dog. Ill never forgive him.

[@ohmygodbecky6829]

That animal

[@gingerbill128]

what an absolute bastard

[@daisu9818]

i reported the video already

[@pokermitten9795]

I am holding a candle light vigil for your dog right now.

[@WowNemy]

Is your dog dead?

[@junka22]

20 years ago I was super optimistic about the future of the internet, I thought it would bring about an age of enlightenment and make ordinary people smarter everywhere... Instead we got TikTok

[@Yggdrasill8]

9orn, short attention span videos, narcissism engine, concentrated promiscuity, fake intimacy, commercialism, meme's, all forms of degeneracy, political agendas, echo chambers, atomization of individuals, and entertainment dopamine hits

[@hardkore360]

the sad part is that KZbin and the internet as a whole has plenty of content to learn from, but instead TikTok and memes/pranks dominate the feeble minded

[@trumpisthemessiah7017]

Yeah, how tf are people this ignorant when they literally have access to every answer on earth in their pocket? Jfc people, learn to use Google. And that doesn't mean scroll down 5 pages till you get the answer you want.

[@kiiturii]

I mean it's done the former too, ofc dumb people still exist, but overall it's had a very positive effect

[@BenjaminCronce]

You forgot Brilliant, MagellanTV, and Curiosity Stream

[@ozarazil5745]

"You have to monitor your kid's online activity, you can't expect the world to do that for you" I'm so glad a big streamer says it. Yes, parents are the and must be the only gatekeepers of what their kids consume, they shouldn't expect the rest of the world to look after what their kids do or don't do

[@smallestgoober9399]

At the very least give them a fighting chance. There's degeneracy in every corner. Even in public schools. It takes a culture of morals and standards to push it back.

[@ozarazil5745]

@@smallestgoober9399 They have the tools to fight back, they're just too lazy to use them and i've seen them complain about it. Learning how to use an age restriction app? Too much work. Checking their kid's social media? Too much work. From time to time getting involved in the online games their kid plays to see the people they interact with? Too much work, and the list could go on. I've seen even housewives that don't have a job say this things. Every era has different challenges for parenthood and the online space is the one in 2023, but we can't expect everyone to be concerned about kids that aren't theirs, its not fair. They had the children, it's their responsability and theirs alone.

[@Rexhunterj]

@@ozarazil5745 The sad reality is that a large number of parents view their children as accessories to their lives, this is true EVERYWHERE not just in western countries. If instead people stopped popping kids out they dont actually love, the world would be a less shitty place, maybe more empty though.

[@easycheese6261]

do you want to live in a world run by kids raised by tiktok? at some point when everything around a child is degenerate only the very best parents (usually upper class) will have children not broken by China

[@dickjames9184]

100% no one here has kids

[@KaiSong-vv7wh]

do you remember when they said "tiktok is on the rise" and "tiktok overtakes youtube" and "everyone is on tiktok now" and "everything happens on tiktok"? I never watched a single tiktok, I even had to check whether it is k or c. And I couldnt give a shit about it even if you gave me free coffee prior.

[@TheKellyGreen]

“Google is insane with their ads you can watch a pizza video and get a pizza ad” cuts to a dominos ad. 😂

[@IWsBIxMuRDeR]

the problem isn't "lewd" if you go down the rabbit hole enough, there are entire sounds that are filled with women breastfeeding(obviously not for educational purposes), women flashing there boobs in a nip slip type of way, France's free the breasts protest, women with cum on their face, I can keep going with more and NONE of these are one off videos that escape tik tok bans. They stay up sometimes for months and have hundreds of creators repeating the same style of content.

[@cremonster]

Yeah tiktok is pretty crap

[@flavioromano8754]

Their*

[@flarestorm9417]

And that's not even to mention child predation on the platform. Upper Echelon covered this a while ago, but you'd have streams hosted by underaged girls where predators use coded or indirect language to get them to go off platform, and/or perform suggestive acts for them. I've also heard of plenty of TikTok trends where people splice in illegal content to what they're doing, like gore videos, child porn, or the like. Due to TikTok's nature, you're bound to get pretty screwed up stuff. And unlike KZbin, TikTok is designed to funnel you through short-form content quickly that's usually just for humor or some other general purpose. I can watch a long-form gaming video on KZbin, and get recommended other long-form gaming videos in the same subject space. However, what do you get recommended when you watch some short-form joke or meme? Even on KZbin, if you watch meme content not tied to a specific franchise (e.g., memes about a new game or something) you're going to go down a rabbit hole where you get random videos that are hard to search for, yet somehow get quite a few views.

[@nikkbokg]

"you cant expect the world to raise your children" accurate.

[@Charlie1821]

Advertisers want a return on their ad spend, and on TikTok with a younger demographic, that takes a lot more buyers so each eyeball is worth less.

[@DaTruff4real]

Tick tock isn't about making money now. It's about the data they're capturing. And today's marketplace data about a consumer is worth more than gold. The yearly revenue numbers don't mean shit

[@jordansrhoads]

Underrated comment. We’re the products now.

[@carding-mg4jg]

Amounts to the same at the end. Less ads mean less money for the tiktokers which means they move to other platforms and you cant data mine them too much.

[@Stoned_Coyote]

The reason why the softcore porn is a problem is because tik tok is marketed to kids.

[@SawseeSauce]

It’s honestly insane to me that Asmon doesn’t understand this. Plus some of the people performing the softcore porn are literal children themselves. In this age of technology we’re living in, it’s so incredibly naive to believe that parents have 100% of the power in stopping what their kids do and see on the internet. I was a kid using the internet at one point… I would know.

[@AAHAHHHHH]

@@SawseeSauce he was raised by a none caring mother his morals are fucked up

[@TheJuggla042]

Exactly I don't expect the world to cater to my kid but I can't monitor them 100% of the time so when I allow them on "family friendly or child friendly" apps and all of a sudden he comes to me saying there is inappropriate content like said softcore porn yeah that's an issue.......

[@gingerbill128]

Asmon is smarter than the average bear but he is oblivious to some stuff which is understandable . Its good to know what you don't know , Asmon hasn't mastered that yet.

[@AAHAHHHHH]

@@gingerbill128 don't give him too much credit

[@daxlarsen2121]

tiktok "We can't afford to pay creators because we didn't pay them enough so they went to you tube to make reasonable money"

[@dracul1838]

0:15 because people like to shoot at the messanger not the mesage,because some are angry at the moment and there is someone who tell them the bad news so they shoot on this person. the first thing that i did after get a new smartphone/PC deleted TikTok/IG

[@TheHarcipoter]

Your smartphone came with TikTok and IG preinstalled?

[@drunkenprayer8390]

"Won't somebody think of the children!" but not the parents.

[@walkermott1750]

Your argument was valid up to like 2010. Now your kid probably knows more about tech and the internet than the people who built the internet

[@sasori2425]

I'd like add to this that OPs argument would be valid if there wasn't red tape involved in what age ranges can see what and the app it self allows kids as young as 13. Plenty of parents are thinking of kids but if they can't trust the app that has been cleared by the red tap many apps have to go through then what's the point of even requiring age ranges outside of what's straight up illegal?

[@androtaz2621]

I for one am thankful to tiktok for containing these people from spilling out into the general populace.

[@the__man]

was juuuust thinking that lol

[@sabokizi]

based

[@seanduncan9722]

I was literally just thinking the same thing.

[@ZagiNoa]

Also thanks Twitter too for keeping those looney in...

[@seanduncan9722]

@@ZagiNoa let me guess - orange man bad syndrome? Elon musk is Hitler?

[@kristiankopera]

i hope people will soon realize how much time they waste on this, and all reels shorts and tiktoks will die just like Vine did ... as an artist who use instagram, reels are really annoiyng for me and i honestly just hate them...

[@nekosimp7751]

ive been getting those video recommends too, itll be like vaguely similar to what im watching, but its always the 3rd video down and has less than 100 views

[@ChippNDipp]

Also, during the adocalypse, family friendly content was the goal, but also weird stuff being categorized as kids content went through the roof.

[@DakotaZ162]

This is exactly why I think "influencers" is a bubble that's gonna pop very soon

[@RedolentSpore]

Really hope so, they've somehow made self-improvement a cringeworthy topic

[@Jayr8367]

Influencers are just intern or contract advertisers.

[@fshhh]

influencers are just celebrities. America loves celebrity worship, and we aren’t gonna abandon it now. and that’s why people are watching asmon react to shit like the johnny depp trial

[@kkonaklap6067]

​@@RedolentSporeSelf-help books have been doing that for a while, mate

[@RobinLundqvist]

Nah mate, they will just become even more extreme versions of the shills for companies we see today. Their success will come from replacing all other marketing.

[@namesbinge3073]

You can't blame TikTok, just blame the users.

[@lawka2699]

I dig that asmon tries to stay authentic by being casual, even about his personas. But if he took and studied some acting classes, i can 1000% see jerma and asmon becoming a major acting power couple.

[@RM.-_-.]

I dont understand why beer company's dont advertise on like onlyfans and ticktok where all the thots are

[@randomness4989]

Cause virtue signaling

[@fredshred5194]

Some thing about under age and drinking laws maybe. Encouraging under 21's to drink beer is not a good look and illegal.

[@anenigma8378]

Asmon's take on companies not advertising on lewd content is a very American centric viewpoint. While most in the U.S. may not care about that, there are other countries that do care and global companies like Coca Cola and Apple are not going to risk damaging their reputation in foreign markets. This is partially why stuff why ESG exists; Companies have to abide by an amalgamation of every country's laws and practices or they lose out on a ton of money.

[@okaydetar821]

@@anenigma8378 He asked why they cared, that is not American centric just because non Americans are the ones that care, the question is WHY not who.

[@ObiAdeGaming]

"Short form content is destroying young minds" Change my mind.

[@GHOST25938]

"i have to be an of model, tiktok isn't paying enough" is what comes to mind

[@MGL83]

It's payment processors that are a problem. For example if MasterCard and/or Visa refuse to work with you because you're pushing mature content or you're a company that advertises on mature videos, then the ads make no sense because the products can't be purchased easily, so the whole business model is out the window.

[@life_synthesizer]

14:33 I loved your analogy comparing junk food with shorts.

[@MGC-XIII]

TikTok is not what money, the sponsorships are. TikTok is essentially just a promotion site for your brand. Also, let's be honest. The top creators on TikTok are mostly rich kids with too much time on their hands.

[@Kreygore]

Anyone else miss the 90s

[@Lemantra]

It appears we cant go back to the past

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

No I was dead in the 90s

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

​@@Lemantrano, but we CAN go back to the future

[@th3oryO]

Nah, nostalgia is a b.

[@johndillinger5142]

If there was a one way portal back to the 90s I'd leap through it head first.

[@jerryswrld]

i literally watch asmon all day at work and all day at home his retention is definitely way better than most creators

[@noobandfriends2420]

The dude knows that people addicted to TikTok are exactly the type of people to accuses you of killing their dog when they don't even have a dog.

[@dameneko]

Interesting. I expect that TT will continue to pursue alternative routes for revenue generation. Fun fact, I am currently seeking a new job and just last month I was contacted by a TT recruiter for a Principal Engineer role for their *payments* product. She spoke of TT as an "ecommerce" company -- NOT social media! Almost all big tech companies are doing payments now. And this is also the case at parent company ByteDance.

[@0v0rd]

10:33 to specify you get a world of warcraft ad that promotes gold selling or boosting raids/arena

[@GodSin777]

Me; just deep into the topic of the video listening and out of no where "am i just a, you know.. a coomer?" had me rolling

[@packyouabowl2921]

There’s nothing more terrifying than getting a charmin ad while on the toilet…

[@Mizikame]

“We see you pooping through your front AND back camera 😈” American Dad had an episode based on this

[@Tyirstrait]

Sadly it's true that there are a lot of dumb people out there that will flood a company with complaints because their ad was featured along side content they disagree with. I experienced this first hand working at my company when we received a big influx of complaints because we had an ad at the commercial break for a show that had said some insensitive things about a prominent figure.

[@voxdraconia4035]

Dumb people ... aka US-Americans...

[@Divamage]

speaking of ads...youtube needs to sort their stuff out...im based in ukand getting arabic and indian non english ads while watching asmogold and other gaming channels

[@ramencat6542]

same here but with italian

[@MijoShrek]

Its just giving you the types of advertisers that they make the most money off of in your region. I can pretty much as to why that is,lol. Its literally anyone that pays at this point. So all the ads look like the old papersback alley classifieds sort of ads.

[@SaltyChickenDip]

16 to 24 has long been a major target for marketers. No kids, no mortgage. Spending a ton of their income of consumption goods.

[@triplebog]

I like how both youtube and tiktok give their age demographics info beginning at 16 as if they don't have a significant amount of viewership under those ranges.

[@RickyGong-cc3sc]

That probably because of all the rules and regulations when children are involved. For instance if you say you are advertising to children there's a ton more red tape compared to saying you advertise to adults. And then there's issue of collecting data on children. Legally sites like KZbin or tiktok aren't suppose to collect data from children. So showing a graph with that data can get them in hot water. In short, THINK OF THE CHILDREN. joke aside it's a very murky area that effectively force these companies to basically pretend children don't exist on their site.

[@trumpisthemessiah7017]

That's cuz it's illegal to data mine kids... duh... "gee, why don't they have this info they can't legally have?"

[@iexcedo6918]

As a father of three kids. I do monitor what they look at and what they look up. Cuz I used to do the same stuff when I was a kid. But I monitor it to sit them down and talk about what they are doing.

[@FFaceEvil_Inc]

5:15 " that was the time I learned to make 2$ pizzas " 🤣

[@hungryal]

Now that you mention youtube not pushing shorts as much, for a while there I was getting rather annoyed that they were appearing in the top right in suggestions. Like there'd be one video, a shorts tab, then the rest of the videos. It's gone again now and I hadn't even noticed lol

[@garymiller8034]

I agree with what you are saying monitoring your kids. However I do think it is much harder to monitor and be a “parent” nowadays due to things like social media and technology.

[@DarthDragmire]

In some ways it may be harder, but being a good parent is being an active parent. In their younger years it’s not hard to be a part of their social life and maintain some sort of control over what content they’re allowed to consume. As they approach adolescence parental controls on their devices are easy to set up, and imo if they have the intelligence to figure their way around that, they probably have the maturity to consume certain content. The problem is a lot of parents just hand their children smartphones or tablets and let them entertain themselves without taking an active role in their kids’ leisure time.

[@lalimalik6614]

@@DarthDragmire yeah when i was 10 my parents put a password on our PC and i looked up and figured you can change it in admin account :D but yeah just ban certain websites on the router

[@frankjohnson123]

Most parents have never been attentive. In the 50s kids with negligent parents would smoke and drink; now they watch Tiktok.

[@ozarazil5745]

Well every era has it's challenges for parents, in the 1900 it was drugs and alcohol and in the 2000 it's the internet . Gotta stand up to the challenge if they want to be parents in 2023

[@jarlbalgruuf2415]

Then don't be a parent.

[@lilg7195]

You got these hour over long videos that I love... Most of the time I don't know what's happening on the screen cause ma phone is lost somewhere in the house while I work play games or do house work... wireless headphones are the best invention ever... 😂😂 Ya voice in ma ear 24/7 and got years of content to listen to... im weirdly addicted...

[@MartaTodorovic]

Me too 😂 I play his videos in the background while drawing.

[@KonstantinGdalevich]

This smooth motion graphics is li ASMR. I felt a sleep. Thank you!

[@Shteven]

Companies always take far too long to catch up to the current trends. Ads are not effective. You know what I do when I see an ad? Mute Get on my phone Click off and do something else If your ad (essp the constantly reoccurring ones) interrupts my viewing/gaming/whatever, then I am going to actively avoid your brand/service/whatever.

[@gusubu17]

"Working in partnership with Royal Armouries, a world-renowned museum that houses the United Kingdom’s national collection of arms and armour, Clive’s Invictus sword from Final Fantasy XVI is on display in the White Tower in the Tower of London until July 19th." First time ever a weapon from a Video Game has been displayed, much less displayed alongside the armory of Kings.

[@khanager2814]

@8:00, I agree to an extent with you that parents far too often don't take accountability for overseeing what theirs kids interact with or how they act. But I don't think this absolves platforms of any responsibility. If you don't have some top-down rules enforced by these platforms, you're punishing the kids who don't have good parents/don't have parents at all.

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

How are the kids getting punished at all? The PARENTS are getting punished because of the parents lack of responsibility. How Is a kid being punished because they saw some ass and an apple ad within 15 seconds of each other?

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

Also, your solution is to punish the entire world because of some kids parents? Fuck that.

[@khanager2814]

@@whenimmanicimgodly4228 I guess we can agree to disagree on what ‘punishing the world’ means. I think given how toxic social media in general has been for the world, proper regulation of the content on it is pretty important and has widespread benefits for everyone. What exactly do you think the big benefit for society is from having kids be exposed to sexual content, red-pill bullshit and divisive liberal and conservative propaganda constantly? And how do you see things going in the future? Do you want the platforms to have no obligation to limit deepfakes, hateful and sexual content, especially when it’s being shown to children? The parents aren’t being punished for their lack of oversight, it’s the kid who’s being influenced by the content. It will disproportionally affect kids who arent lucky enough to have parents who actually supervise the content they’re consuming. Really don’t understand your point. My solution is not punishing the world. I’m fairly pro most content being allowed on these platforms, but I’m not pro it being shown to kids.

[@x_sooshi_x]

i love playing asmon vids while i go to sleep, every once in a while i'll get woken up from bad teammate rage, its chill but i've "watched" all the longer ones, need new full vod uploads good sir

[@VonTried]

Y'all remember the Beer Girl posters? I need more ads like that

[@jmeister7477]

I feel the parenting issue shouldn't be dismissed by. "Be a parent" This is mostly because the new generation needs to be information literate to thrive in the information age. Trying to find a safe way for kids to learn about how the internet works is somewhat challenging.

[@zebmaxwell7979]

12:45 an ad ever 3 minutes?! Thank you Jesus for Ad block. I really need to get my Pi Hole set back up.

[@adrianmagtoto9775]

MS Excel/Powerpoint, and even Canva tips in short form (below 20 secs) is a very useful tool. I most often go to Tiktok for those instead of KZbin

[@reverbedvonacular]

Bytedance has other ways to profit off of TikTok than ads. User data.

[@ZSAITOSEI]

Looking at shorts and short form videos as snacks is really apt, especially if your normal watch routine is 2 hour essayists or 4-6 hour gameplay VODs, it's really good to break them up with little smooth brain snacks 😂

[@BarakuTwisted]

i leave ur 9 hr videos on for my dogs when i go to work lol

[@Olodus]

For youtube shorts atleast you could argue that Shorts of clips from creators sort of acts as ads for their vods/streams. That is how I use them atleast. I get recommended some shorts of the last stream I missed or something and then I might go watch it if it seems cool.

[@graysonlorenz1441]

On the point of "you have to monitor your kids content intake" my two questions are this: How? and You're old enough to know that kids are smart enough to get around this, so in the case of trying to advocate for a safer space (which I couldn't care less about but am devil's advocating here), then doesn't it feel like the more effective way to make this change is to put in a broader control?

[@xSKOOBSx]

The best way tiktok could monetize would be to allow creators to add links to their youtube channel and charge them per click.

[@abirosak]

“You gotta monitor your kid’s internet activity.” You don’t blame the content creators when your kid acts out. You blame the parents for not being parents.

[@TobyIKanoby]

Kids will act out, can't keep them on a leash.

[@jamesstamper9342]

I keep mine in a cage, its alot easier to monitor their activities

[@Buhllake]

I really just hate how youtube and tiktok or any other video platform is expected to make people money or have people complain it doesnt make enough money. I miss when it was just because it was fun to do

[@Mirage238]

I remember back in the nineties when 90% of girls wanted to be a model because they earned tons of money. Now it’s social media. Only 1% of these models make money on social media.

[@quantumtheo]

Even my fiance ditched Tik Tok... and FB, she's been much happier haha. I'm staying off of FB more and more and it does indeed result in more happiness.

[@hxdcm]

Smart moves!

[@anannoyedpanda]

Social media should be deleted entirely.

[@sgtcrushem5444]

I loved your take on people needing to be taking responsibility for their own kids. I have 2 kids and because I know so much about the internet I know how to better monitor them and what to look out for. The fact there are parents out there that don't give a fuck only to blame the source is ridiculous.

[@jarlbalgruuf2415]

​@@AdamFontenet-iy3tb those aren't mutually exclusive 9/11 beard

[@sgtcrushem5444]

@@sasori2425 I can't honestly say I disagree at all, well put.

[@datguy8296]

@@AdamFontenet-iy3tb Speak for yourself.

[@Ahicksaf]

HAHHAA dude I said '"Yea" pretty much the same time u did 6:50

[@rarekush1767]

the spike in replays at min 6:51 XD hahaha

[@Fuzkin]

Tiktok is like instagram. It's a ad place for OF

[@delikits2095]

Well it’s based off algorithm buddy

[@TheSuperSlothy]

I speak for everyone when I say advertisers realise that the average TikTok user has an attention and memory span equivalent to a late stage Alzheimer’s patient and will likely forget they even saw an advert between the self flushing toilet connected to their brain.

[@hyoga.official]

I'm a 1,1M Follower TikToker and sponsors pay me around 5-7K $ for one 30second + Video on my Account. For 9-15 Seconds its 1200$. The app doesnt really pay well, but sponsorships 100% do.

[@bruce3195]

You are right to say that parents should be monitoring their childrens internet access. But as a kid and im sure alot of people can relate to making a game of finding ways around filters... In most cases to play games on miniclip and other such sites at school but that didn't mean more mature content didn't creep its way in.

[@XionSteel]

what shorts does for youtube is essentially bring over people that only really like shorts as well as expose people that like longform to see shorts. The shorts people come to like certain creators for their shorts and might consider watching a few of their longer videos sometimes as a kind of easement into the ad cycle. What it does for the longform people is to expose them to as many creators in a short amount of time, giving them more options for viewing. All in all win win, and i know that i discovered a lot of creators through this. It's not profitable, but its kind of worth having.

[@Geb378]

The fact that our lives on average consist of 670k hours. And you have 11.9 million watch hours in the last month is insane.

[@RecliningWhale]

In the 80s-90s-00s it was pretty common for ads themselves to feature thirst traps... Makes me wonder what could have been if Tik Tok were a thing back then.

[@beekydogg]

These ticktock kids don’t buy things. They buy things they can’t afford to use as status symbols

[@perrymanjim]

Asmong has 11.9mil hours watch time. Your welcome Asmong, keep up the 30+ min vids that I can listen to at work!

[@RealDeWatch]

As an advertising professional, I can add a few thoughts here: 1. Some advertisers do actually ignore TikTok because of concerns about their brand image, but I see more and more companies adopting the platform every year, so you can‘t really say that „companies just don‘t want to advertise there“. 2. The fact that the Chinese TikTok is bringing in more revenue has nothing to do with the narrowness of the audience; I can specifically target any country I want on the worldwide version of TikTok. I am not sure about this, but I believe the data protection policies are way less strict in China, making the targeting of ads much more reliable and effective to get more $$$ out of the same amount of ads delivered. 3. TikTok ads being limited to 60 sec and under is not really different from other, well-established advertising platforms. Like FB & IG Reels & Stories. Making ads for that format is super normal.

[@huntergomez4633]

As a fellow professional why would you target the least affluent demographics for anything other than gaming? The vast majority of people under the age of 25 have no purchasing power so how would you justify the expense to your client?

[@RealDeWatch]

@@huntergomez4633 you realize that even if only 10% of TikTok users were in your preferred age group, that would still be more than 100 million users, right? You don‘t have to spend a single penny advertising to young people, select 35-54 as your age bracket and off you go

[@RealDeWatch]

@@THATGUY-ct8xz hahahaha

[@Mayhap34]

On the Target example 20:15, I will say that it really effected the stock price--since it's mainly perception. So it went down. Knowing that it was temporary and nothing else really changed with Target and their operations--I bought at that time and sure enough the price went back up.

[@TheSkepticSkwerl]

In my early 40s. Only thing I've ever bought from a KZbin ad has been movie tickets.

[@krabbanshand]

Exactly! Us kids content creators got fucked over so hard with COPPA and YT kids app because parents are lazy and stupid! My kids have super strict rules to follow, one misstep and you're out for the unforeseeable future and that works amazingly well. Might be because I've actually spent 16hrs a day with them for 10+ years parenting with my wife. But hey what do I know

[@dalerritchie1511]

I'm 100% not going to watch any channel that has ad's every 2 minutes. There's no chance no matter how good the content really is on there. I don't mind ads , but not every few minutes.

[@DoctorORBiT]

I don't understand either. 7:00 I've never in my life associated an ad with a video that played before or after.

[@metodichachov8653]

The problem for large companies is that they are publicly traded and have shareholders. Any "bad" representation of the brand have the opportunity to bring the stock down and respectively lead to a loss to the shareholders. The deal after all is: "We have that brand that has products that do this and that. Give us loads of money and in return you'll be able to make loads of money + 3% yearly". Guess what, nobody will give their money if they know they're loosing it.

[@MultiMisskitty1]

For so long we've idolized fame And it's poisoning the youth into wanting the same...Just my opinion who really knows why???

[@johnny6187]

they shouldnt be getting that much to begin with through such little effort

[@alexisraigosa5925]

The amount of harm short-form content has caused to society is astronomical… I hope the internet/social media can somehow shift into more positive environment that can better the future of the next generations… it’s really sad to see how much time kids spend on their phones seeing meaningless things that just poison the brain…

[@nathanmerton]

lmao i had to google what a "coomer" was, hilarious.

[@creativeartivity]

Well you could use tiktok to promote your other platforms. I know there's like clip channels on there which could help direct traffic from tiktok to your other platforms, which could end up being worthwhile. But as a standalone yeah you're not getting jack shit lol

[@kliersheed]

youtube shorts? clip channels on youtube? still no need for tiktok

[@creativeartivity]

@@kliersheed I didn't say you don't have to use those lol, I'm just saying it's an added bonus, considering you'd be pulling engagement from a different audience.

[@Chaos486]

The more I watch you, the more I am astounded by your intellect. Not being sarcastic. Enjoying watching you spit truths

[@faanvdberg]

You are the voice of reason in a crazy world of internet content. I enjoy it. Keep it up 👊

[@TheCutiePatrol]

people sit in a room full of friends and family, scrolling through tik tok. youtube shorts? you know they're sat on the toilet lol.