Like TikTok [… isn’t] basically the same thing as TV.
Dude, what TV were you watching? Even clip shows like AFV weren’t as WarioWare as TikTok is. TikTok is a nonstop whiplash of extremely short-form shit which you’re incentivized to absorb emotionally but not to think about – way moreso than TV. The content is way shorter, and importantly, it’s bouncing back and forth between completely different subjects every dozens of seconds or so. Even in the era where TV is mostly VoD, this doesn’t hold up.
The parallels are there with YouTube if you watch it in a certain way (I’d argue saying “YouTube is the same” is wrong too because there are a trillion ways to watch it that act nothing like TV, i.e. that this comparison is a subset of YouTube), but to say “video playback with ads, therefore TV” for TikTok is the most ridiculous oversimplification of it I’ve ever seen.
TikTok is like TV in the way that a machine gun was like a musket. Like, kind of? Technically? If you want to strip away all nuance? Shooty thing go pew?
Dude, what TV were you watching? Even clip shows like AFV weren’t as WarioWare as TikTok is. TikTok is a nonstop whiplash of extremely short-form shit which you’re incentivized to absorb emotionally but not to think about – way moreso than TV. The content is way shorter, and importantly, it’s bouncing back and forth between completely different subjects every dozens of seconds or so. Even in the era where TV is mostly VoD, this doesn’t hold up.
The parallels are there with YouTube if you watch it in a certain way (I’d argue saying “YouTube is the same” is wrong too because there are a trillion ways to watch it that act nothing like TV, i.e. that this comparison is a subset of YouTube), but to say “video playback with ads, therefore TV” for TikTok is the most ridiculous oversimplification of it I’ve ever seen.
TikTok is like TV in the way that a machine gun was like a musket. Like, kind of? Technically? If you want to strip away all nuance? Shooty thing go pew?