chapotraphouse

Yea, xhs is better than tiktok. Idk why, but I think it is partially because there is no capacity for Americans to make money directly from the app rn. There are more restrictions on that stuff in China anyway, but no way to get paid without a Chinese ID.

Pretty sure you can still do product placement and shit, but I think youd get banned if you aren't doing it as required.

I don't mind the algo though. It didn't take long to push it in a certain direction. I imagine I'll stop using it soon though, because at the end of the day it's still just easily palatable slop. Cool seeing the books Chinese nerds are reading though. I'll likely keep coming back for that lol.

All I'm getting is communist music, PLA hardbass edits, cosplayers, and occasionally "American friends, is this just propaganda or do you actually have to [pay for ambulances, eat raw unseasoned broccoli for lunch, die in school shootings every week]"

So I guess it's working pretty well

My feed is full of muscular Chinese women

yeah the algorithm is infinitely easier to sway. interacting with content and hitting the "not interested" button feels like it works 50x more efficient than tiktok.

also haven't seen any ads, or promotional videos that pretend to not be ads. no hearing the same dozen trending audios over and over and over. the memes are funnier, the creative stuff is more creative, the content is more original, and the people are less toxic. + photos in comments. all around a much better experience

Ngl I feel that Obama and Bernie are really the only major democratic figures that actually wanted to talk to the youth (one with false promises and the other with tacit growth of some labor benefits that never actually came), the rest of the dem infrastructure is geared toward the belief that their aged moderate demographic will last forever or not continually show themselves to be right wing reactionaries.

tldr the dems hate the youth because the youth want actual material change that hurts the status qou

Dems have spent a decade telling everybody under 50 that what we want is impossible and we should stop talking and just give them our undying support, and be grateful for the opportunity.

if trump keeps throwing people a bone and making as much political hay about the easiest moves in the world, the Democrats are finished.

not saying he will, but can you imagine if he took some opportunity to publicly shit on some medical insurance exec and fuck with them on a personal level? nothing structural or threatening to capital, but purely making an example of one asshole to throw red meat into the angry crowd.

his project would be swimming in political capital and libs would throw themselves on the fire to defending civility.

I mean that reason is probably going to lose out if there's an opportunity for Trump to look good

Like with the nuclear secrets they walked off with lol

no one will remember this by next week

I don't know how they can get strong armed, they're clearly willing to call the USs bluff and get banned. What other leverage is there?

"As a result of President Trump's efforts"

Trump = bread and circuses , that's the point. Pavlovian conditioning.

I got a longer ban for a diarrhea joke.

I saw it compared to when spongebob and patrick were in jail for 1 second (for stealing a balloon on national free balloon day)

Yeah this is the end of tiktok as it was. It will become shit, exactly how depends on who buys it.

That's always been what was demanded and Byte Dance refused before. Trump will probably torpedo it still.

that'll show 'em

Unlike the democrats, trump actually tries to win. It's one of the main things that people like about him.

Also, insert twitter screenshot of the guy saying that ever since 2016, the dems have just gotten dunked over and over by a golden retriever while they were clutching a rulebook and screeching about the integrity of the sport.